Anaheim-based SyncCast Corp., which offers services for making video available online, has been bought by a unit of France’s Thomson SA, a maker of consumer electronics and broadcasting gear.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Privately held SyncCast is set to be folded into Technicolor Electronic Distribution Services Inc., a Thomson unit based in Burbank.
The buy is part of Thomson’s push to win business from media and entertainment companies. The company’s best known as the maker of RCA TVs and other electronics.
SyncCast provides digital media services, such as management of digital rights and integrated billing and payment systems, mainly over the Internet.
Customers include the Motion Picture Association of America, Dell Inc., LionsGate Films, Microsoft Corp. and Wal-Mart Inc.
SyncCast got its start in 1999.
