Magix

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• Jürgen Jaron (CEO)
• Mr. Achinger (Chairman)

The Magix AG ( as a brand name in the spelling MAGIX ) is an international software company with a focus on multimedia software and services. The company has its headquarters in Berlin. Other locations are eg Bologna in Italy, Hemel Hempstead in the UK, Markham in Canada, Reno in the U.S. and Taipei in Taiwan.

Size and development of the company

The Consolidated Financial Statements of MAGIX AG for the business year 2012/2013 ( October 1, 2012 to September 30, 2013 ) and the annual reports for the financial years 2011 /2012, 2010/2011, 2009/2010, 2008/2009, 2007/2008 and 2005/2006 have the following information:

Products

The products and services offered by MAGIX AG offers solutions for particular import, manage, archive and file format conversion for photos, videos and music from digital as well as analog devices and design, editing and sharing photos, videos and music as well as of individual contents.

Develops software for multi-media products and markets Magix since 1994, when the company recorded sales of such products with " Magix Music Maker ". Basis of the products of Magix is a software for professional music production, which is offered by Magix Samplitude under the brand today. Samplitude was originally developed by the company Studio for electronic sound generating Dresden ( SEK'D ), which now operates under the name Magix Software GmbH.

Besides being able to buy its software products Magix also offers freeware. In addition, there are online both pecuniary and gratuitous services for designing, editing, presenting and archiving digital photos, videos and music, and for usable digital content.

In the field of video editing is the program Video Deluxe, the program " Photo Manager Deluxe " known in the field of image processing. Furthermore, the program is used to create slide shows " photos on DVD." In the field of music editing programs Music Maker and MP3 deluxe are used to create and edit music.

Mid-September 2006 acquired the free Magix Audio CD database freedb, after the developers had quarreled about the development of the project.

History

MAGIX Technology GmbH (later Magix AG) was founded in 1993 by Jürgen Jaron, Dieter Rein and Erhard clean and it was started with the development of software for the design and processing of music (" Music Maker "). 1994, the first MAGIX Music Maker was published. 1996 MAGIX to software for designing, editing, presentation and storage of photographs and videos has been extended from 1997 Magix AG was also common in other European countries and the USA.

In 1998, the county seat was moved to Berlin. Since 2000, investment funds involved in the company in the context of capital increases. 2001, the corporate form of MAGIX Technology GmbH MAGIX AG was changed. 2002, a cooperation agreement with T-Online has been completed. 2004 saw the expansion of online services such as MAGIX Online Photo & Video Album, MAGIX Music Store and MAGIX Online media catalog and the conclusion of cooperation agreements with Motorola and Fujitsu- Siemens. 2005 multimedia platform iPACE was to, for example, Extended MAGIX Online Print Service and MAGIX Podcast Service. The Magix AG participated from the m2any and concluded cooperation agreements with Medion ( Aldi ), Samsung and Swisscom ( Bluewin ).

On 6 April 2006 Magix AG went public. 2007 was the English Xara Group Ltd.. taken. In addition, MAGIX bought the remaining shares of m2any, which was subsequently renamed mufin GmbH. Was founded Catooh Corporation in Las Vegas (Nevada, USA) as a 100% subsidiary of MAGIX AG also in 2007. After 2008 in Markham ( Ontario) ( Ontario, Canada ) is a subsidiary of MAGIX has been opened, initiated the MAGIX AG in November 2008, the Knowledge Community magix.info as an independent social network for experts on music production, video and photo editing. Here also over training is offered to multimedia topics since early 2010. The social network has around 175,000 members (as of June 2013). 2009 was founded with the MAGIX Online Services GmbH Another subsidiary, based in Berlin, in which the essential online services are summarized by MAGIX.

Listing

The shares of Magix AG are listed Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since April 6, 2006 in the official market and the Prime. The shares being placed primarily originated from the sale of the former owners, mostly owned by the growth investors 3i and the Technologie-Beteiligungs -Gesellschaft ( a subsidiary of KfW). The company's founder Jürgen Jaron and Dieter Rein remained even after the IPO, the majority owner of the company. After the emission at the peak of a bull market, the shares fell to a lesser buoyant market in late June to less than half their issue price. In July 2012, the change in the Entry Standard was approved.

Subsidiaries

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The following companies belonging respectively to 100 % for Magix group ( as of September 30, 2013)

• APPIC LABS Corp.. , Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
• APPIX LABS GmbH, Berlin, Germany
• Bellevue Property GmbH, Zossen, Germany
• MAGIX Audio GmbH, Berlin, Germany
• MAGIX Computer Products International Corp.. Reno, Nevada, USA
• MAGIX Entertainment S.A.R.L. Paris, France
• MAGIX Entertainment S.R.L. Bolzano, Italy
• MAGIX Entertainment B. V. Huizen, The Netherlands
• MAGIX Limited Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
• MAGIX Limited Taipei, Taiwan
• MAGIX Online Services GmbH Berlin, Germany
• MAGIX Software GmbH Berlin, Germany
• MyGOYA GmbH, Zossen, Germany
• Mufin GmbH Berlin, Germany
• Open Seminar GmbH Berlin, Germany. The Open Seminar GmbH was founded in 2011 as a 100 percent subsidiary of MAGIX AG. The company operates the online service ProvenExpert.com, a platform for referral marketing and customer satisfaction analysis.
• Simplitec GmbH Berlin, Germany
• The Xara Group Ltd.. Basingstoke, Hampshire, United Kingdom

Acquisition of Xara Group Ltd..

In January 2007, MAGIX AG, the English Xara Group Ltd.. acquired with headquarters in Hemel Hempstead. Xara is a company that makes graphics software and programs for web design. It became famous especially with the program Xara Xtreme, which is present in version 5.0 (June 2009 ).

The company was founded in 1981 and is therefore by his own admission one of the oldest software companies in the UK. The first 12 years, the company developed (initially under the name of Computer Concepts Ltd. ) No software for IBM PCs, because these " a lousy processor " contained, according to the company's founder, Charles Moir. The Apple II cost for the then financially weak companies too much to permanently programmed to him with economic success can. So the first attempts were made on the Acorn Atom, for after a few " small programs " still in 1981 "Space Invaders " was released. 1982 moved Xara then on the BBC Micro and programmed " WordWise ". With " drafts " they produced in 1983 their last game. In 1986, Xara short for Atari ST, where especially programming languages ​​and tools have been produced. After a short-term bills back on the BBC Micro in 1987 they changed that same year to the Acorn Archimedes. There was also " ArtWorks ", the direct predecessor of Xara Xtreme. In 1996, Xara moved to Windows. Here he created works such as Xara 3D, Xara X and Xara Xtreme.

Acquisition of mufin GmbH

Mufin (pronounced like muffins) stands for " Music Finder ". The mufin GmbH since 2007, wholly owned by MAGIX AG. Took early as 2005, MAGIX 66 % of m2any, Garching, which has been operating since the acquisition in 2007 under mufin GmbH and has its headquarters in Berlin. Came out the m2any from a research project at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, which is considered the inventor of the MP3 format.

The technology of mufin based on the AudioID - an acoustic fingerprint that enables the rapid detection of pieces of music. The AudioID is part of the standard MPEG- seventh

Besides music recognition mufin working in the field of music recommendation. It analyzes this is not the listening habits of users, such as with Last.fm, but about 40 objective properties of music such as rhythm, tempo and instrumentation. In the database of the online portal mufin.com to early February 2011, there were about 9.3 million songs.

Establishing the Catooh Corp..

The Magix AG on 27 March 2007, the Catooh Corp.. founded in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. The corporation was registered on 5 April 2007 in the local commercial register. It serves the settlement of the transactions with the online service operated by Magix Catooh, a marketplace for digital media.