Spruce Technologies

Spruce Technologies was a privately-held DVD authoring company in California that was acquired by Apple Computer in 2001.
==History==
Spruce Technologies was founded in 1996 by Dr. Hiromu Soga with investments from Japan, Taiwan, and North America. The company had been developing DVDMaestro, a competitor to Apple's own newly released DVD Studio Pro 1.0, which it had just acquired from Astarte GmbH in April 2000.Management Team, Spruce Technologies. Archived 1999-05-08.We're Authoring the Digital Age, Spruce Technologies. Archived 2001-08-01.Apple Acquires DVD Authoring Technology, Products and Engineering Team From Astarte, Apple Computer. 2000-04-10. On July 9, 2001, Apple acquired Spruce Technologies for 15 million.Apple Acquires Spruce Technologies, Mergr. 2001-07-09. There were 55 employees in San Jose, California at the time of the acquisition. The development team helped incorporate the features of DVDMaestro into DVD Studio Pro 2.0,Review: DVD Studio Pro 2(4), Creative Planet Network. 2012-02-14. which was released on August 6, 2003.Apple Releases DVD Studio Pro 2, Apple Computer. 2003-08-06.
==Products==
===Software===
*DVDConductor
*DVDMaestro
*DVDPerformer
*DVDVirtuoso
*Premaster Tool
*SpruceLink
*SpruceUp	
===Stations===
*DVDStation CX
*DVDStation MX
*DVDStation NLE
*DVDTransfer
===Encoder boards===
*ACXpress 5100
*MPX3000
==References==
==External links==
*Spruce Technologies official website (archived 2001-05-19, 1998-12-06)
*Spruce Technologies Inc at Bloomberg
*Spruce Technologies at Crunchbase
*Spruce Technologies at Facebook
*Spruce Technologies at Wikipedia (archived 2007-12-31)
Category:Apple acquisitions
Category:1996 establishments