Monotype Imaging Holdings
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Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides text imaging solutions worldwide. The company involves in developing, marketing, and licensing technologies and fonts for displaying and printing digital text. It offers various products and services, including font scaling, compression, and rasterizing technologies; text layout engines that enable consumer electronic (CE) devices to display multilingual text, including text composed in languages, such as Indic, Arabic, and Hebrew scripts; printer driver and imaging tools; and font products and services. The company also provides font management technologies that include Fontwise product, which allows creative and business professional customers to audit, manage, and purchase font licenses; and FontExplorer X font management software that allows the end-user to identify fonts required to view and print a given document. Its technologies and fonts are used in a range of CE devices, including laser printers, digital copiers, mobile phones, digital televisions, set-top boxes, navigation devices, and digital cameras, as well as in various software applications and operating systems. The company licenses its text imaging solutions to CE device manufacturers, independent software vendors, and creative and business professionals through custom font design services and direct and indirect sales, as well as through its e-commerce Web sites, such as fonts.com, itcfonts.com, linotype.com, faces.co.uk, and fontexplorerx.com. It also serves mobile phone makers, laser printer manufacturers, digital television and set-top box manufacturers and other multinational corporations, and automotive and financial corporations. Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc. is headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts.

Recent Milestones
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Monotype Imaging Holdings acquired Front. (10/31/12)

Posted 10/30/12 at 8:33pm via yahoo.com
Monotype Imaging Holdings — Monotype completes $50M acquisition of Bitstream font unit (3/20/12)

Posted 3/20/12 at 5:47am via masshightech.com
Monotype Imaging Holdings — has paid $10.2 million in cash and stock to acquire Ascender Corp., a typeface design, development and licensing firm in Chicago (12/8/10)

Posted 12/8/10 at 8:27am via masshightech.com
Monotype Imaging Holdings acquired Ascender for $10.2M. (12/8/10)

Posted 12/8/10 at 9:16pm via freshnews.com
Monotype Imaging Holdings acquired PlanetWeb for $1.9M. (12/11/09)

Posted 12/11/09 at 6:16pm via freshnews.com
Went public with stock symbol TYPE.

Posted 12/11/09 at 6:44pm
Monotype Imaging Holdings added Douglas J. Shaw as President & CEO.

Posted 12/11/09 at 6:16pm
Monotype Imaging Holdings added Scott E. Landers as CFO.

Posted 12/11/09 at 6:16pm