Company Name | Bittorrent, Inc. |
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Website | www.bittorrent.com |
Snippet | Rainberry, Inc.,[2] formerly known as BitTorrent, Inc., is an American company that is responsible for the ongoing development of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol, as well as the ongoing development of μTorrent and BitTorrent Mainline, two clients for that protocol. Files transferred using the BitTorrent protocol constitute a significant slice of all Internet traffic.[3] At its peak, 170 million people used the protocol every month, according to the company's website.[4] The company was founded on September 22, 2004 by Bram Cohen and Ashwin Navin. In 2018, the company was acquired by cryptocurrency startup TRON,[5] and Bram Cohen left the company.[6][7] |
Type | Private company |
Parent | TRON Foundation |
Founded | 2004 |
Website | www.bittorrent.com |
Formerly | BitTorrent, Inc. |
Founders | Bram CohenAshwin Navin |
Industry | Internet software and services |
Products | Consumer Freeware, Content Delivery, Embedded Software |
Key people | Justin Sun (CEO), Ashwin Navin |
Area served | Worldwide |
Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
Subsidiaries | DLive[1] |
Number of employees | 110 (2012) |
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