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Updated: RealNetworks To Buy Online Casual Games Site GameTrust; Price About $20 Million - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 27 Sep 2007 01:02 PM PST

Updated: Sep 27: The companies have announced the deal today, two days after we broke the story. The real price is around $20 million...we earlier reported “less than $50 million”,…

Microsoft Loses EC Anti-Trust Appeal; $680 Million Windows Media, Server Fine Upheld - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 17 Sep 2007 07:19 AM PST

From our new site paidContent:UK: Microsoft (NYSE:MSFT) has lost its appeal against the 2004 European Commission ruling it abused its dominant market position with respect to Windows Media Player and…

MTV-RNWK Music Venture: Rhapsody America Expected To Pull In $500K In Q3 Revenue - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 21 Aug 2007 01:59 PM PST

Talks began 11 months ago about developing some sort of partnership between RealNetworks (Nasdaq: RNWK) and MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA). After considering several different models, the two eventually settled on…

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MTV-RNWK Music Venture: The Financial Details; Cash Plus $230 Million Note From MTVN - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 21 Aug 2007 09:53 AM PST

RealNetworks (Nasdaq: RNWK) has a 5 PM EST conference call planned to discuss the financial details of the new JV company, but it just filed an 8-K with details. Real…

MTV-RWNK Music Venture: New Company Rhapsody America; Talks With Microsoft Ongoing - 2 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 21 Aug 2007 09:39 AM PST

While the news of MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) was closing its online music service Urge and merging it with RealNetworks’ (Nasdaq: RNWK) Rhapsody music service was a night old by…

MTV Closing Urge Music Service, Merging With RealNetworks’ Rhapsody - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 20 Aug 2007 06:35 PM PST

The news was supposed to be announced at a press conference tomorrow at 11 A.M. in NYC, but WSJ jumped the gun figured it out while the rest of us…

Earnings: RealNetworks Q2 Profits Fall 96.7 Percent, While Revs Rise 52 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 31 Jul 2007 01:18 PM PST

Citing the absence of payments related to its antitrust settlement and commercial agreements with Microsoft, RealNetworks (Nasdaq: RNWK) said its Q2 net income plunged 96.7 percent to $1.3 million, or…

Glaser Responds on RealNetworks Questions - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 19 Jun 2007 01:51 PM PST

Last week I posted some rather pointed questions directed at Rob Glaser, CEO of RealNetworks, about the new RealPlayer11, the company’s audio and video formats, and its future growth. Someone…

@ DH: Some Open Questions To Rob Glaser - 3 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 13 Jun 2007 08:25 PM PST

At Digital Hollywood today, Rob Glaser, CEO of RealNetworks, gave a presentation on the company’s new upcoming RealPlayer11, which has generated some buzz for its video-sharing download capabilities as well…

Audio Interview: Rob Glaser, CEO, RealNetworks - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 31 May 2007 10:43 PM PST

Where does RealNetworks figure in this whole online video revolution going on? Shouldn’t it have been at the center of it all, with its pioneering efforts starting more than 12…

RealNetworks New Version Of RealPlayer; Allows Downloads & Rip-Burn Of Videos From Other Sites - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 31 May 2007 11:52 AM PST

RealNetworks has retooled its flagship video player RealPlayer, and made is more controversial: it will now allow users to download online videos from other sites, burn them to DVD and…

RealNetworks Buys Into European Mobile Music Market, Signs Deal With Vodafone - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 16 May 2007 05:59 AM PST

RealNetworks has bought Sony NetServices, a joint venture between Sony DADC and Sony Europe, which provides white label digital music services to operators in 8 European countries. RealNetworks paid $9…

Earnings: RealNetworks Posts Higher 1Q Profit; Price Hike For Rhapsody Unlimited - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 02 May 2007 01:40 PM PST

Citing strong performance from its digital music subscription business, RealNetworks (NASDAQ: RNWK) posted positive 1Q earnings and revenues. Its 1Q net income was up 60 percent, reaching $40 million, or…

Upfront: LifetimeTV.com Revamp Slated For June; New Broadband Player; Hearst, About.com, RNWK - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 24 Apr 2007 08:39 AM PST

Lifetime’s rash of upfront announcements includes a full remake of LifetimeTV.com slated for June and expanded digital content that, if successful, could post some challenge to NBCU’s iVillage.com and the…

Circuit City And Napster Launching Digital Music Store - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 20 Apr 2007 06:40 AM PST

Troubled Circuit City is getting back into selling online music by teaming up with Napster on a new online MP3 service that will give consumers access to songs via monthly…

Successful ContentNext Seattle Mixer Draws 300-Plus - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 01 Mar 2007 12:46 AM PST

Rafat was on the other side of the world and some others were on the wrong side of the snow belt but some 300-plus ContentNext readers made their way to…

Industry Moves: RNWK: O’Neil New SVP-Digital Music; Sheeran Moves To SVP, Corp. Partnerships/BizDev - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 26 Feb 2007 04:47 PM PST

A couple of high-level changes at RealNetworks ... Philip W. O’Neil, most recently COO for Vivendi Universal Games, has joined the company as SVP-digital music. No music background but he…

Record Vets Look to Tech Companies for Future; Social Networking Star Tries the Record Industry - 1 Comment
Posted By Jimmy Guterman - Mon 26 Feb 2007 08:35 AM PST

It’s unclear whether the music business as we now know it has a future, and that’s true for the people on the periphery of the business, not just the big…

Earnings: RNWK: Record 4Q Revenue Up 50 Percent; Increases in Music, Gaming, tech - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 14 Feb 2007 01:24 PM PST

Real Networks (NASDAQ: RNWK) reported record 4Q revenue today of $125.6 million, up 50 percent year over year but net income suffered by comparison to last year’s 4Q, which included…

RealNetworks Acquires Brazil-Based Casual Game Studio Atrativa - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 06 Feb 2007 07:31 AM PST

RealNetworks has made another acquisition in the games arena in an effort to bulk up its casual gaming position: it has acquired Sao Paulo, Brazil-based Atrativa, a popular casual games…

Big Brands Fail On Music Subscription Services - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Sun 28 Jan 2007 03:19 PM PST

Online music subscription services should be left to small startups focused on the space, or so says this article from Reuters. It cites the demise of AOL Music Now and…

@ MidemNet: Glaser: Do Away With DRM For Downloads - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 20 Jan 2007 12:18 PM PST

[By Robert Andrews] The music business will not make significant enough gains until it drops restrictive DRM, and it won’t be saved by the long tail either, according to two…

RealNetworks Re-Launches Film Site Film.com - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 18 Jan 2007 11:35 AM PST

RealNetworks has re-launched Film.com movie info and news destination site. Why? Because it can, I suppose. It has owned the site for a long time (the site was founded in…

Why It Wasn’t Radio That Made RealNetworks’ Rob Glaser a Billionaire - 0 Comments
Posted By Jimmy Guterman - Thu 11 Jan 2007 06:27 AM PST

Readers of paidContent are most familiar with Rob Glaser as head honcho of RealNetworks, but his interests have long gone beyond chasing Microsoft and Apple for digital-media market share. Those…

Earnings: Gaming Continues To Pay For RNWK—Up 53 Percent in 3Q - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 06 Nov 2006 04:57 PM PST

A good third quarter for RealNetworks with record revenue of $93.7 million, up 14 percent over $82.2 million in 3Q05. Net income nearly quadrupled to $42.2 million, or $0.24 per…