Nero AG develops and distributes digital multimedia solutions for personal computer, consumer electronics, and mobile industries. Its areas of focus include digital media solutions, including multimedia applications for audio, video, photo and TV capturing, editing, burning, managing, and sharing; audio and video compression technologies that provide solutions for encoding and decoding digital content; and VoIP solutions that provide voice, text, and video communication through the Internet for home and business. Nero manufactures CD-R/RW, DVD, and Internet audio software applications, as well as supplies optical recording solutions. The company’s main products include Nero 6 Reloaded, a multimedia complete solution; InCD 4, the integrated package writing solution; and NeroMIX- Play&Burn, a solution for creating multimedia CDs. Nero provides strategic partners with applications, codecs, tools, software development kits, and programming interfaces for use with a variety of the platforms and devices. Its software solutions are used in the home, on the go, and professionally. Nero distributes its products through hardware manufacturers, international partners, retailers, and directly through www.nero.com. It serves consumers and professionals. The company was founded in 1995 as Ahead Software AG and later changed its name to Nero AG in 2005. Nero is based in Karlsbad, Germany with additional offices in Glendale, California; and Yokohama, Japan.