Rob Glaser, CEO of RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), starts off the Q208 earnings call on a somber note: This is most turbulent macro-economic scene we have seen since our company was…

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RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) announced its Q2 2008 earnings today, and was in net losses for the quarter: it has losses of $1.3 million compared, or 1 cents a share, to…

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Rob Glaser, the CEO of RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), spoke last week at the Casual Connect conference in Seattle, just hours before Hasbro filed a lawsuit against the makers of Scrabulous,…

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The latest turn in this saga doesn’t look so good for Scrabulous… Hasbro, the maker of Scrabble, is suing the creators of Scrabulous, the uber-popular Facebook app. In a statement,…

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Accepting an annual salary of $1 has become a popular way for CEOs to say “I don’t get paid, unless you get paid” to shareholders. Members of the $1 club…

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RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), among the early proponents on DRM-free music, has finally been able to launch an MP3 store, joining the likes of Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), Napster…

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RealNetworks, which is in the process of spinning out its games unit, has done a long-due reorg of its business structure and promoted three senior executives. -- John Giamatteo has…

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Back in May, RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) announced plans to spin off its casual games business and make a filing on that sometime by the end of the year. So why…

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-- ABC.com upgrading its broadband player: After having launched the first full-episode player online in 2006, ABC.com has upgraded the online destination with full-screen viewing, closed captioning, the ability to…

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RealNetworks’ (NSDQ: RNWK) 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31 should be required reading for anyone going into a complex JV or the online music business. Line by line, it…

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-- Aegis Media: Mainardo de Nardis has stepped down from his role as CEO and will be succeeded by Jerry Buhlmann, who also joins the board June 2. Buhlmann has…

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Some chronological links about the history of RealNetworks’ (NSDQ: RNWK) games business, which it has been building over the last two years: -- RealNetworks Doesn’t Buy Scrabulous; Launches Own Version…

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Here’s a shocker: RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) is finally doing the rationalization of its business lines: it will separate its global casual games business into an independent company and distribute shares…

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RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) is playing two this afternoon—announcing Q1 earnings and the spinoff of its casual games business. Revenue rose 14 percent to $147.6 million, compared with $129.5 million in…

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ASCAP is ballyhooing a federal court ruling today that AOL (NYSE: TWX), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) must pay higher licensing fees for streaming songs by its 320,000-plus…

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RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), which has previously professed its supposedly neutral position in the copyright controversy over the popular Facebook app Scrabulous, is now sneaking itself into the mix: it is…

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At CTIA in Las Vegas, I briefly spoke to Rob Glaser, CEO of RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) on his company’s mobile content efforts and working, on working with carriers, the Apple…

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RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) filed its 10-K annual report last week with SEC, and some numbers on the layoffs it did in relation to its WiderThan acquisitions, and some layoffs in…

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I had the exact same thought that Om had after I read the NYT piece last night AND when RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) PR sent out a note about the story,…

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Earlier today Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN) announced its Q4 earnings and also mentioned that it has sold off its games DRM business (through Trymedia) to an undisclosed buyer for $4 million.…

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RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) has reported Q4 revenue of $156.9 million, up 25 percent from $125.6 million in the prior year’s quarter. Net income in the quarter was just $2.7 million,…

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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), which has officially closed down its premium online music service Yahoo Unlimited (we reported on it first here), has sold the service to RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) and…

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Updated: Has been confirmed by RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) music PR...offices affected are Seattle, New York and San Francisco. These layoffs happened two weeks ago, and affects about 10 people, not…

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-- Philips partners with Rhapsody for digital music: Philips is forming an alliance with RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) to offer online music using Philips’ music players...it would start selling portable and…

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Music blog community MOG.com is integrating with Rhapsody from RealNetworks, (NSDQ: RNWK) adding the equivalent of another dimension by allowing bloggers and users to listen to, search for and share…

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