TiVo 2005 Annual Report Download - page 33

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If we lose senior management or other key engineering personnel, we may not be able to successfully operate our business.
Our future performance will be substantially dependent on the continued services of our senior management and other key engineering personnel. The
loss of any members of our senior management team or other key engineering personnel and our inability to hire additional senior management or other key
engineering personnel could harm our business and results of operations. In addition, we do not have key man insurance policies for any of our key personnel
which may adversely affect our ability to attract new senior managers.
Our Certificate of Incorporation, Bylaws, Rights Agreement and Delaware law could discourage a third party from acquiring us and
consequently decrease the market value of our common stock.
We may become the subject of an unsolicited attempted takeover of our company. Although an unsolicited takeover could be in the best interests of our
stockholders, certain provisions of Delaware law, our organizational documents and our Rights Agreement could be impediments to such a takeover.
We are subject to the provisions of Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, an anti-takeover law. In general, the statute prohibits a
publicly held Delaware corporation from engaging in a business combination with an interested stockholder for a period of three years after the date of the
transaction in which the person became an interested stockholder, unless the business combination is approved in a prescribed manner. Our Amended and
Restated Certificate of Incorporation and Amended and Restated Bylaws also require that any action required or permitted to be taken by our stockholders
must be effected at a duly called annual or special meeting of the stockholders and may not be effected by a consent in writing. In addition, special meetings
of our stockholders may be called only by a majority of the total number of authorized directors, the chairman of the board, our chief executive officer or the
holders of 50% or more of our common stock. Our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and Amended and Restated Bylaws also provide that
directors may be removed only for cause by a vote of a majority of the stockholders and that vacancies on the board of directors created either by resignation,
death, disqualification, removal or by an increase in the size of the board of directors may be filled by a majority of the directors in office, although less than a
quorum. Our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation also provides for a classified board of directors and specifies that the authorized number of
directors may be changed only by resolution of the board of directors.
On January 9, 2001, our board of directors adopted a Rights Agreement. Our Rights Agreement was last amended on April 12, 2006. Each share of our
common stock has attached to it a right to purchase one one-hundredth of a share of our Series B Junior Participating Preferred Stock at a price of $60 per one
one-hundredth of a preferred share. Subject to limited exceptions, the rights will become exercisable following the tenth day after a person or group
announces the acquisition of 15% or more of our common stock, and thereby becomes an "acquiring person," or announces commencement of a tender offer
or exchange offer, the consummation of which would result in the ownership by the person or group of 15% or more of our common stock. On April 12,
2006, we amended the Rights Plan's definition of Acquiring Person to remove the defined term "Existing Holder". The rights are not exercisable as of the date
of this filing. We will be entitled to redeem the rights at $0.01 per right at any time prior to the time that a person or group becomes an acquiring person.
These provisions of Delaware law, our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and Amended and Restated Bylaws and our Rights
Agreement could make it more difficult for us to be acquired by another company, even if our acquisition is in the best interests of our stockholders. Any
delay or prevention of a change of control or change in management could cause the market price of our common stock to decline.
In the future, our revenues and operating results may fluctuate significantly, which may adversely affect the market price of our common
stock.
We expect our revenues and operating results to fluctuate significantly due to a number of factors, many of which are outside of our control. Therefore,
you should not rely on period-to-period comparisons of results of operations as an indication of our future performance. It is possible that in some periods our
operating results may fall below the expectations of market analysts and investors. In this event, the market price of our common stock would likely fall.
Factors that may affect our annual operating results include:
• demand for TiVo-enabled DVRs and the TiVo service;
• the timing and introduction of new services and features on the TiVo service;
• seasonality and other consumer and advertising trends;
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