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Tue, December 1, 2009 Wave Regains Compliance With Nasdaq Minimum Bid Price Rule
LEE, MA--(Marketwire - December 1, 2009) - Wave Systems Corp. (
8% Series I Preferred Stock Converts to Common Stock
As a result of the 15 trading-day average of the closing bid price of its Class A common stock exceeding $1.10 on November 20, 2009, all of the outstanding shares of Wave's 8% Series I Convertible Preferred Stock (issued in September 2008) automatically converted into Wave's Class A common stock in accordance with the terms of the Certificate of Designations for the Series I Convertible Preferred Stock. Each of the 220 shares of Series I Convertible Preferred Stock converted into 10,000 shares of Wave's Class A common stock. The automatic conversion of the Series I Convertible Preferred Stock also eliminated any accrued and future dividend obligation on the Series I Convertible Preferred Stock.
About Wave Systems Corp.
Wave provides software to help solve critical enterprise PC security challenges such as strong authentication, data protection, network access control and the management of these enterprise functions. Wave is a pioneer in hardware-based PC security and a founding member of the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), a consortium of more than 100 companies that forged open standards for hardware security. Wave's EMBASSY® line of client- and server-side software leverages and manages the security functions of the TCG's industry standard hardware security chip, the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) and supports the TCG's "Opal" self-encrypting drive standard. Self-encrypting drives are a growing segment of the data protection market, offering increased security and better performance than many existing software-based encryption solutions. TPMs are included on an estimated 300 million PCs and are standard equipment on many enterprise-class PCs shipping today. Using TPMs and Wave software, enterprises can substantially and cost-effectively strengthen their current security solutions. For more information about Wave and its solutions, visit [ http://www.wave.com ].
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