TiVo Product HoldCo, Inc.
The Product Business of TiVo Corporation
NOTES TO CONDENSED COMBINED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(1) Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Description of Business
On May 9, 2019, TiVo Corporation (“Parent” or “Pre-Merger TiVo”) announced that its Board of Directors unanimously approved a plan to separate into two independent publicly traded companies (the “TiVo Separation”): one comprising its intellectual property licensing business and one comprising its product businesses. The TiVo Separation was intended to take the form of a spin-off to Parent’s stockholders of 100% of the shares of its product-related businesses, which was to be renamed TiVo Product HoldCo, Inc. (the “TiVo Products” or the “Company”).
On December 18, 2019, the Company and Xperi Corporation (“Pre-Merger Xperi”) entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger and Reorganization (the “Xperi Merger Agreement”), pursuant to which Pre-Merger TiVo and Pre-Merger Xperi have agreed, subject to the terms and conditions of the Xperi Merger Agreement, to effect an all-stock, merger of equals strategic combination of their respective businesses (the “Xperi Combination”). The board of directors of each of Pre-Merger TiVo and Pre-Merger Xperi have approved the Xperi Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby. The Xperi Combination is subject to certain customary approvals, including the approval of shareholders of Pre-Merger TiVo and Pre-Merger Xperi, and is expected to be completed by June 30, 2020.
Pre-Merger TiVo is a global leader bringing entertainment together, making it easy to find, watch and enjoy. The Company provides a broad set of cloud-based services, embedded software solutions that aggregate online video, television programming, movies and music entertainment in a unified discovery experience. The Company’s solutions include device-embedded and cloud-based user experience (“UX”), including interactive program guides (“IPGs”), digital video recorders (“DVRs”), natural language voice and text search, cloud-based recommendations services and an extensive collection of entertainment metadata (i.e., descriptive information, promotional images or other content that describes or relates to television shows, videos, movies, sports, music, books, games or other entertainment content). The Company’s portfolio of products are available as both discrete component technologies for customers to integrate into their internally developed solutions or as part of completely integrated modular solutions. The Company’s integrated portfolio of software and cloud-based services provides an all-in-one approach for navigating a fragmented universe of content by seamlessly combining live, recorded, video-on-demand (“VOD”) and over-the-top (“OTT”) content into one intuitive user interface with simple universal search, discovery, viewing and recording making it easy for consumers to find, watch and enjoy entertainment when and where they want it. The Company also offers advanced media services and advertising solutions, including viewership data, sponsored discovery, audience insights and in-guide advertising, which enable advanced audience targeting for advertising through linear television, streamed content and other direct digital display and video platforms. Solutions are sold globally to cable, satellite and telecommunications pay TV service providers, virtual service providers, consumer electronics (“CE”) manufacturers, content and new media companies, advertisers and agencies. In North America, we also sell a suite of DVR and whole home media solutions and services directly and through retail to consumers.
Basis of Presentation
The accompanying unaudited Condensed Combined Financial Statements have been prepared in connection with the TiVo Separation and have been derived from the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements and accounting records of TiVo Corporation as if TiVo Product had been operated on a standalone basis during the periods presented and in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Certain information and disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) have been condensed or omitted in accordance with such rules and regulations. However, the Company believes the disclosures made
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