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George Soros' family office Soros Fund Management has updated its stake in Digital River (DRIV).  Per an amended 13G filed with the SEC, Soros Fund has disclosed they own 6.97% of Digital River (DRIV) with over 2.47 million shares. 

This is broken down by 16,050 shares and over 2.46 million shares issuable upon the conversion of 2.00% convertible bonds due November 1, 2030.

At the end of 2013, Soros Fund reported aggregate exposure to over 5.5 million shares, so this appears to be a decrease in aggregate exposure by around 3 million shares.  The filing was required due to activity on March 4th.

Soros Fund also filed a Form 4 with the SEC on DRIV and it indicates they received $153,750,000 plus accrued and unpaid interest on the 2.00% convertible bonds they disposed of.

In other activity, Soros Fund also started a Polycom stake recently.

Per Google Finance, Digital River "provides end-to-end global cloud-commerce, payments and marketing solutions to a wide variety of companies in software, consumer electronics, computer games, video games and other markets. The Company offers its clients a broad range of services that enable them to quickly and cost effectively establish an online sales channel capability and to subsequently manage and grow online sales on a global basis while mitigating risks. The Company is engaged in providing outsourced commerce solutions globally to a variety of companies, primarily in the software and consumer electronics product markets. The Company's services include design, development and hosting of online stores and shopping carts, store merchandising and optimization, order management, denied parties screening, export controls and management, tax compliance and management, fraud management, digital product delivery via download, physical product fulfillment and subscription management."