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RealNetworks’ Shares up 33% On Year
By Rafat Ali
Shares of RealNetworks are up a hefty 33% year-to-date…what gives? The company is benefiting from being in some of the hottest growth area… Read more »
RNWK Continues European Rollout Of RealMusic
Six months after the launch of RealMusic in the UK, RealNetworks has added five more European countries: France, Italy, Germany, The Netherl… Read more »
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Earnings: RealNetworks’ Profits Up On MSFT Payments; Music Now 33 Percent of Revs
By Rafat Ali
RealNetworks reported increased Q1 revenues from its digital entertainment products and a hefty gain related to its legal settlement with Mi… Read more »
RealNetworks’ Streaming Media Patent: A Cause for Concern?
By Rafat Ali
The general consensus is: yes and no…in other words, not yet, but could be. RealNetworks got a broad streaming media patent approved last… Read more »
RealNetworks Gets Streaming Patent; May Give It a Competitive Edge
By Rafat Ali
First it was Acacia, would RNWK follow the litigation route? Unlikely that it will be heavy handed, but anyway: RealNetworks has received a… Read more »
RealNetworks Wins Patent Suit Over Ethos
By Rafat Ali
RealNetworks has prevailed in a $200 million patent infringement lawsuit originally brought against it by Ethos Technologies in 2002.
A Mass… Read more »
iTunes May Pass RealPlayer in Uniques, By Mid-2006
By Rafat Ali
This is significant, if you think about it in the bigger picture: an analysis by the WebSiteOptimization.com says that unique users of Apple… Read more »
Earnings: Glaser To Analysts: MSFT Is Just One Of Our Partners
RealNetwork Chairman and CEO Rob Glaser had a lot to say during some of the speediest prepared remarks I’ve ever heard and the q&a from anal… Read more »
RealNetworks Buys European Gaming Company Zylom For $21 Million
By Rafat Ali
RealNetworks has started putting the money it got from MSFT settlement to use: it has bought out Dutch game firm Zylom Media Group for $21 m… Read more »
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Glaser Gets $2.9 Million For RealNetworks-Microsoft Settlement
By Rafat Ali
RealNetworks’ board has approved a cash payments of up to $2.9 million to CEO Rob Glaser for his work leading to a settlement and collaborat… Read more »
HP Drops iTunes, Taps RealNetworks For Bundled Music
By Rafat Ali
Some good news for RealNetworks after a dry spell…after several years of distributing Apple’s iTunes software with its new PCs, HP is shif… Read more »
To-Go Music Services “Vastly Improved”
The early days of subscription music “took hours of painful trial and error” to deliver music to “subpar non-iPod devices” but Jeff Graham s… Read more »
Glaser: Dream Devices, Consumer Ed, Integration Are Keys To Sub Success
In a wide-ranging interview with Pete Rojas, Real Networks Chairman and CEO Rob Glaser adds to a refrain that seems to be getting louder of… Read more »
New Site Relaunches: Rhapsody.com; MTV.co.uk; Audible.com; Inform.com; FHM USA; FIFA World Cup
By Rafat Ali
Somehow this week in December is a heavy site/service relaunch week..some of them we mentioned in some version before.
– Rhapsody.com: As w… Read more »
Real Adds Web-Based Rhapsody Version
RealNetworks is launching the beta of a web-based version of music service Rhapsody that will open access to Apple and Linux users — and wi… Read more »
10-Q Watch: RealNetworks’ Slowing Subscription Music Growth?
By Rafat Ali
RealNetworks filed its Q3 10-Q earlier this week, and I find this paragraph below an extraordinary admission from the company, in face of th… Read more »
RealNetworks By The Numbers: Paid Music Growth
Thought this simple chart I just received from RealNetworks might be of interest. It shows the last nine quarters of RNWK’s music revenue an… Read more »
Earnings: RNWK 3Q05 Revenues Up 20 Percent; More Than 2.2 Million Paid Subs
Updated to include earnings call: RealNetworks reported revenues of $82.2 million for 3Q05, up 20 percent from $68.3 million in 3Q04. Net in… Read more »
RealNetworks Mulling Buys
By Rafat Ali
Well, not really a surprise, but RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser said at a conference today that mulling acquisitions from the money it got from… Read more »
RNWK-MSFT: Wall Street, Industry Analysts Applaud … And Muse
Wall Street responded to news of the settlement and collaboration by sending RNWK soaring even before the market opened yesterday. Next step… Read more »
RNWK-MSFT: The Morning After
The Microsoft-RealNetworks settlement and accompanying collaboration instantly captured attention and imagination as people across multiple… Read more »
What Will RealNetworks Do With The Money?
By Rafat Ali
With this $460 million cash bounty, RealNetworks now has about $820 million in cash on its balance sheet. What does it plan to do? One, as t… Read more »
RNWK-MSFT: Glaser, Other Real Execs Talk The Deal Through With Analysts
… and thanks to the SEC, we get to listen in. The participants included Rob Glaser, chairman & CEO; Roy Goodman, SVP & CFO; and Rob Kimbal… Read more »
RNWK-MSFT: Give Kudos To Glaser
By Rafat Ali
For once, Rob could suppress his ego for the betterment of his company (these are my words…and something I’m hearing from a few other peop… Read more »
RNWK-MSFT: What About Apple?
By Rafat Ali
The two head honchos didn’t say much about Apple in their joint press conference, when asked about Apple, here’s what they said (via News.co… Read more »
RNWK-MSFT: The History in Links
By Rafat Ali
Here’s from our archives, some links and some choice quotes…the rivalry, at least over the last 2-3 years:
– RealNetworks Sees $16 Millio… Read more »
RNWK-MSFT: Almost Like A Buyout
By Rafat Ali
Now you know why Microsoft broke off talks with music labels: it has almost bought out Rhapsody.
If all the elements of the deal play out as… Read more »
RNWK-MSFT Settlement: Audio of The Press Conference
By Rafat Ali
() The full video of the Bill Gates-Rob Glaser press conference is available on both sites, but if you want an audio download of it for your… Read more »
RNWK & MSFT: The Antitrust Settlement
By Rafat Ali
According to the release: The antitrust and technology assurance agreement resolves all antitrust disputes worldwide, based on a $460 millio… Read more »
RNWK-MSFT: The Music & Games Agreement
By Rafat Ali
The topline details are in the post prior. This is what it includes on the music and games side:
– Under the music and games agreements, Mi… Read more »
It’s Formal: RealNetworks & MSFT Settle For $761 Million; Big on Music & Games
By Rafat Ali
More to come… Microsoft and RealNetworks have announced three agreements valued at $761 million to settle their antitrust case and create… Read more »
Real, Microsoft Antitrust Settlement May Be Near; Possibly Worth $750 Million
It looks like a joint press conference with Microsoft CEO BIll Gates and RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser today at 1 p.m. Eastern in Seattle will… Read more »
@ CTIA: Real’s Glaser; Warner’s Bronfman; Digital Chocolate’s Hawkins
Rafat’s posted a trio of posts with audio via our dedicated CTIA blog; check it out for the full rundown on the mega mobile marketplace. Raf… Read more »
Analyst: Napster, Real Music Subscriptions Not Priced For Success
Market research by Park Associates suggests that portable music subscription services priced above $10.00 can’t succeed. That’s a direct ref… Read more »
RealNetworks Sees $16 Million Cost For Microsoft Suit
By Rafat Ali
RealNetworks expects to spend $16 million this year fighting Microsoft, which it sued in 2003 i relation to the media player dominance contr… Read more »
Earnings: RealNetworks’ Profits Up, Revenues Increase on Music
By Rafat Ali
RealNetworks reported increased revenues for Q2, of $82.7 million, up 26 percent from $65.5 million in year-ago quarter. It had a net income… Read more »
Industry Moves: NetFlix Ad Sales Head; RealNetworks UK Head
By Rafat Ali
Couple of new appointments of note:
– RealNetworks: It has appointed Marco Menato as VP of consumer services for EMEA. Working out of Londo… Read more »
How One Consumer's Love Affair With Real Ended
By Rafat Ali
Jeff Louella, a multimedia web developer in Consohocken, PA and self-described “geek who loves computers and technology,” tracks his doomed… Read more »
Napster's Gorog, Real's Glaser At Piper Jaffray
By Rafat Ali
It’s not often that we can offer you coverage from London to Laguna Beach. Our VP (and occasional columnist) Robert Spears spent Wednesday a… Read more »
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