Digital River

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Digital River
Type	Public NASDAQ: DRIV
Founded	1994
Founder	Joel Ronning
Headquarters	Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States
Area served	global
Key people	Thomas Donnelly (businessman)
Industry	software
Products	digital software delivery
Revenue	$243.9 million^[1]
Employees	948^[1]
Website	http://www.digitalriver.com/

Digital River, Inc., is an American e-commerce outsourcing company whose clientele is largely software publishers; the company is the leading provider of software delivery over the internet. Its largest client is Symantec.^[2]

Other clients including Microsoft, AOL, eBay, Toshiba, Computer Associates, Circuit City, and Sun Microsystems.^[2]

The company’s platform offers site development and hosting, order management, fraud prevention, export controls, tax management, physical and digital product fulfillment, multi-lingual customer service, advanced reporting and strategic marketing services.

Founded in 1994, Digital River is headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota with offices in major U.S. cities as well as Cologne, Germany; London, England; Shannon, Ireland; Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Taipei, Taiwan; and Tokyo, Japan.

Their first Web site was launched in 1996. Since then, they have acquired numerous small firms with specific abilities that add to the overall mission statement of the company.

Digital River owns Simtel, the operator of cdrom.com, a large Internet repository of freeware and shareware.

According to the BitPass homepage (Retrieved 31 January 2007), On 26 January 2007, when digital commerce supplier BitPass discontinued operations, Digital River was brought in to provide operational support and carry out the process of refunding all unspent monies to respective account holders.