Digital River is a U.S.

United States

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 e-commerce outsourcing

Outsourcing

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 company. The company’s platform offers site development and hosting, order management, fraud management, export controls, tax management, physical and digital product fulfillment, multi-lingual customer service, reporting and strategic marketing services. Clients include ACD Systems

ACD Systems

ACD Systems Ltd began as a software developer for the CD-ROM cataloguing industry. ACD products include JPEG decoder, image viewing and image management software.-Products:...

, Adobe

Adobe

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, Autodesk

Autodesk

Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinational corporation that focuses on 3D design software for use in the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media and entertainment industries. The company was founded in 1982 by John Walker, a coauthor of the first versions of the company's...

, Canon, Capcom

Capcom

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, Cyberlink

CyberLink

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, Data Robotics, Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts

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, En Masse, Kaspersky, Kodak, Lenovo, Logitech

Logitech

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, Microsoft

Microsoft

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, Netgear

Netgear

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, Nuance

Nuance Communications

Nuance Communications is a multinational computer software technology corporation, headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, USA, that provides speech and imaging applications...

, Pentax

Pentax

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, Philips

Philips

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, Razer USA, SanDisk

SanDisk

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, Smith Micro, THQ

THQ

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, Trend Micro

Trend Micro

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, Ubisoft

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, Western Digital

Western Digital

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 and Wizards of the Coast

Wizards of the Coast

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Founded in 1994 Digital River is headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota

Eden Prairie, Minnesota

As of the census of 2000, there were 54,901 people, 20,457 households, and 14,579 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 21,026 housing units at an average density of 649.2 per square mile...

 with offices in other US cities as well as Cologne

Cologne

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, Germany

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; London

London

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, England

England

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; Shannon

Shannon, County Clare

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, Ireland

Ireland

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; Luxembourg

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, Luxembourg

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; Shanghai

Shanghai

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, China

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, São Paulo

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, Brazil

Brazil

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, Taipei

Taipei

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, Republic of China (Taiwan)

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; and Tokyo

Tokyo

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, Japan

Japan

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In addition to providing order fulfillment for vendor-branded direct stores, Digital River also sells and distributes academic-priced software as a reseller through its own online stores. These stores, which include Academic Superstore, JourneyEd, Gradware and Campustech, operate under the subsidiary Digital River Education Services, Inc., formed from Digital River's acquisition of CCV Software (d/b/a Educational Superstore) in 2008 followed by Gradware and Journey Educational Marketing Inc. (JourneyEd) in 2010.

On 18 May 2005 Digital River acquired SWREG

Swreg

SWREG Inc is a US payment processing company serving primarily software and service publishers.SWREG's products provide software and shareware authors a method of selling products online, with features such as direct software download and electronic license delivery. SWREG offers multiple payment...

, another online payment processing company catering primarily to shareware authors. In June 2006 Digial River acquired MindVision, Inc, including both the Installer VISE

Installer VISE

Installer VISE is an installer maker that supports Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, and Windows by MindVision Software. Originally created Mac-only, it was one of the most popular installer makers for the platform, now surpassed by Apple's Installer....

 and eSellerate business units.

Security breach

A security breach in 2010 resulted in a list of nearly 200,000 customers being stolen. A lawsuit followed by Digital River.

Acquisitions

Digital River has a policy of acquiring other companies in the e-commerce (including digital software delivery

Digital distribution

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) industry. It has acquired:

• RegNet
• FileBasket
• SiliconRealms
• RegSoft
• Simtel
  Simtel
  Simtel is an Internet-based archive of shareware for various operating systems, particularly Microsoft Windows and MS-DOS. The Simtel archive has been available on the public Internet since 1993, when its older ARPANET host was shut down....
  
  
• Digibuy
• CCNow
• Freemerchant.com (discontinued 15 January 2008)
• NetSales
• Emetrix
• Qwerks
• FileKicker
• element5
• MindVision, Inc
• eSellerate
• ShareIt
• SWREG
  Swreg
  SWREG Inc is a US payment processing company serving primarily software and service publishers.SWREG's products provide software and shareware authors a method of selling products online, with features such as direct software download and electronic license delivery. SWREG offers multiple payment...
  
  
• Fatfoogoo (2010)
• BlueHornet Networks (2004)