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BitTorrent, Inc.
Type Private company
Founded 2004
Headquarters San Francisco, California, USA
Key people Eric Klinker, CEO
Bram Cohen
Industry Internet Software & Services
Products Consumer Freeware
Content Delivery
Embedded Software
Employees 20 (2009)
Website www.bittorrent.com

BitTorrent, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, is an American company that develops peer-assisted Internet content delivery technology based on the BitTorrent protocol. The company was founded on September 22, 2004 by Bram Cohen and Ashwin Navin. BitTorrent, Inc. also maintains the BitTorrent protocol.

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BitTorrent's headquarters are at 612 Howard Street in San Francisco.

The company offers popular consumer freeware such as the popular uTorrent client and the original BitTorrent client. The company also licenses its technology, called BitTorrent DNA (Delivery Network Accelerator),[1] to websites "to add the speed and efficiency of patented BitTorrent technology to their current content delivery infrastructure, significantly reducing bandwidth costs while increasing capacity over standard d source BitTorrent client by BitTorrent, Inc.

  • BitTorrent
  • BitTorrent client
  • BitTorrent DNA

    • [edit] References

    1. ^ BitTorrent DNA
    2. ^ BitTorrent » Company
    3. ^ BitTorrent » Partners
    4. ^ BitTorrent » pressreleases
    5. ^ http://www.bittorrent.com/partners/twentieth-century-fox[dead link]
    6. ^ http://www.bittorrent.com/partners/comedy-central[dead link]
    7. ^ http://www.bittorrent.com/partners/lionsgate[dead link]
    8. ^ http://www.bittorrent.com/partners/mtv[dead link]
    9. ^ http://www.bittorrent.com/partners/paramount[dead link]
    10. ^ http://www.bittorrent.com/partners/spike[dead link]
    11. ^ http://www.bittorrent.com/partners/warner-bros[dead link]
    12. ^ a b c BitTorrent Device Partners

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