Spyglass, Inc.
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Not to be confused with Spyglass Entertainment.
Spyglass, Inc. was an Internet software company. It was founded in 1990, in Champaign, Illinois, as an offshoot of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and later moved to Naperville, Illinois.[1] Spyglass was created to commercialize and support technologies from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). It focused on data visualization tools, such as graphing packages and 3D rendering engines.
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Company type | Public |
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SPYG | |
Industry | Software |
Founded | 1990; 34 years ago (1990) |
Founder | NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
Defunct | 2000 |
Fate | Acquired by OpenTV (now Kudelski Group) |
Headquarters | , United States |
Products | Internet browser intellectual property |
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Spyglass became well known for its version of the Mosaic web browser. The company was acquired by OpenTV in 2000, now part of Kudelski Group, in a $2.5 billion stock swap.[1][2]