RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) founder Rob Glaser’s latest project: a video chat startup. SocialEyes, which launches today, lets users find friends or strangers with a common interest and video chat with them. Glaser is chairman, while Rob Williams, who was formerly an SVP at RealNetworks, is CEO. The two men are…

Maybe it’s just me but it felt like RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) dragged out this whole CEO search for too long. It’s not like Bob Kimball was an unknown: He’s been with the company since 1999. Maybe a month or two after Chairman Rob Glaser resigned as CEO in early January,…

After discussing their recent travel plans, our founder Rafat Ali spoke with Rob Glaser, partner, Accel Partners / chairman, RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) at the paidContent Mobile conference, with a particular focus on the meaning of iPhone in the marketplace and whether Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has a chance of catching up…

Rob Glaser has landed at his next gig, relatively quickly. He is joining one of the bluechip VC firms Accel Partners, as a Venture Partner, focusing on digital media technology, social media, and mobile service investments. He will remain at his homebase in Seattle, and will surely be looking at…

In Rob Glaser’s first public appearance since stepping down as CEO of RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), he implored that it is incumbent upon companies to work together in order for the wireless sector to continue its break-neck pace of innovation. Glaser did not hint at what he might do next, but…

Rob Glaser is still chairman of the board but it looks like the post-Glaser era at RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) is well underway. The latest unraveling: Real is giving up the fight over RealDVD, the software deemed a copyright killer by the studios because it allowed users to store an image…

Internal memo from Rob Glaser about him stepping down as CEO of RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) after 16 years, followed by one from the new acting CEO Robert Kimball: From: Rob Glaser Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 1:35 PM To: All RealNetworks Employees Subject: Important Personal News Team, Today we’re announcing…

A shocker but a move five years too late: Rob Glaser, the founder and CEO of RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), is stepping down as the leader of the company after 16 years. The pioneering online video company has appointed Robert Kimball, who till now was the corp EVP, as president and…

In the wake of the layoff of 7.5 percent of RealNetworks’ staff, Rob Glaser, chairman and CEO, sent an internal memo now posted at AllThingsD (including audio and video links I have yet to get to work). Some of it mirrors the company blog post we referred to earlier, but…

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 founded 14 years ago. We are seeing ripple effects of the economic slowdown…for us, specially advertising softness, and reduction in…

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 have included Jerry Yang, Eric Schmidt and Steve Jobs. The latest member is Rob Glaser, CEO of RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK).…

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 lays out the risks of the Rhapsody America joint venture with MTV Networks, all the more interesting giving RealNetworks CEO…

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 (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone hype, the opening up of the mobile networks, integration of WiderThan. One major point: he warned against…