<p>TiVo plans to acquire Digitalsmiths, a provider of TV and movie content discovery and recommendation services, for $135 million in cash.</p><p>Digitalsmiths offers personalized video search, recommendations and browsing, social trending, and mood-based discovery across multiple devices. The firm works with 46 U.S. and international service providers, including seven of the top 10 pay-TV operators in the United States, as well as content providers and consumer-electronics companies.</p><p>"The Digitalsmiths acquisition opens new opportunities to commercialize and deploy TiVo's cloud-based services and technologies to operators, in an extremely cost-effective way that can be offered either independently or in conjunction with TiVo's renowned user interface," TiVo president and CEO Tom Rogers said in announcing the deal.</p><p>Digitalsmiths customers include Time Warner Cable, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Technicolor, Univision Communications, Turner Sports, the NBA, the PGA, NASCAR, Zeebox and i.TV. The Durham, N.C.-based company has 49 full-time employees, most of whom including CEO and co-founder Ben Weinberger will be joining TiVo, according to a TiVo rep.</p><p><a href="http://variety.com/2014/digital/news/tivo-to-buy-content-recommendations-firm-digitalsmiths-for-135-million-1201075944/">Keep reading...</a></p>