software publishing founded taipei taiwan august 5 1989 headquarters taipei taiwan key people lotus chen founder way zen chen founder lewis liaw founder steve ro chairman eldon liu ceo products computer software revenue usd 34.46 million 2005 number of employees 287 in ulead headquarters january 31 2006 parent corel website www.ulead.com ulead systems chinese ; pinyin y ul z x n ; pe h e j i li p chu s n is a taiwanese computer software company headquartered in neihu district in taipei taiwan . it is a subsidiary of corel . contents 1 history 2 products 2.1 video 2.2 dvd 2.3 image 2.4 web utility 2.5 pocket software 2.6 digital home 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit lewis liaw in 2006 ulead was founded on august 5 1989 by lotus chen lewis liaw and way zen chen . they founded ulead with the support of microtek after leaving taiwan s institute for information industry in order to further develop and commercialize their first true color image editing software photostyler on the windows platform . ulead sold photostyler through aldus software as a software developer . however aldus merged into adobe systems in 1994 and photostyler is no longer available . ulead then continued to develop photoimpact 3 as its flagship image editor and sell photoimpact by itself . today photoimpact is known as a competitor of adobe photoshop . ulead systems then extended its development of multimedia software in various areas such as video editing media management web utility dvd authoring and digital home . on september 17 2001 ulead was listed on the taiwan stock exchange as 2487 . tw . on april 13 2005 intervideo acquired ulead systems for approximately 68 million . on july 9 2006 intervideo announced its merger with ulead to be completed on december 28 2006 . on 28 august 2006 corel announced that it would acquire intervideo for about 196 million . 1 on october 24 2006 ulead was unlisted on the taiwan stock exchange . 2 on december 12 2006 corel announced the acquisition of intervideo and ulead had been completed . 3 products edit video edit videostudio mediastudio pro videographics lab videotool box cool 3d cool 3d production studio dvd edit burn.now dvd moviefactory dvd pictureshow dvd workshop image edit cool 360 cool 3d photoimpact iphoto plus photo explorer photo express my scrapbook web utility edit gif animator gif x.plug in menu.applet smartsaver pro pocket software edit pocket slideshow pocket dv show digital home edit instamedia see also edit list of companies of taiwan ulead mediastudio pro intervideo corel references edit nuttall chris 2006 08 28 . corel buys intervideo for 196m . financial times . retrieved 2006 09 10 . taiwan stock exchange fact book 2007 delistings in 2006 corel s letter to customers on the intervideo ulead acquisition external links edit ulead systems ulead systems germany first look at ulead videostudio 11 this article about an it related or software related company or corporation is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this article about a taiwanese corporation or company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ulead systems & oldid 739764676 categories software companies of taiwancompanies established in 1989companies listed on the taiwan stock exchangecompanies based in taipeicompanies disestablished in 2006taiwanese brandscorelinformation technology company stubstaiwanese company stubshidden categories articles containing traditional chinese language textall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschespa ol italiano magyar polskiportugu s svenskat rk e edit links this page was last modified on 16 september 2016 at 20 55 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view