Accedo Acquires CloverLeaf Digital

Opening New York office for connected TV app development work

By George Winslow -- Broadcasting & Cable, 9/26/2012 1:54:44 PM

Smart TV app developer Accedo has acquired Brooklyn-based CloverLeaf Digital and announced that the CloverLeaf team will form the basis of Accedo's New York City office.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Accedo, which is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with branch offices in London; Madrid; Mountain View and Los Angeles, California; Hong Kong; and Sydney, already has significant U.S. presence. It offers a cloud-based platform to help customers to roll out and manage apps and stores for multiple devices and markets.

It was responsible for HBO Go and NBA Gametime smart TV apps and bills itself as having been involved in "30% of all smart TV apps," with customers in over 30 countries.

CloverLeaf's interactive network provides a customer base of 50 telephone companies, cable operators and other distributors of digital video with interactive applications and services, including the AppDaily app store, the DotDaily localized news and information service and Funspot casual games.