RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) has lost an arbitration hearing against VeriSign (NSDQ: VRSN) related to a mobile partnership that the companies were involved with, according to an SEC filing that just came out from Real. The judgment came down in May and there was a further ruling on it under which…

For another sign of the times, have a closer look at VeriSign’s Internet naming business and its health during Q408: in its earnings announcement call yesterday. Some numbers on new name registrations in .com and .net “zones”, as troubled times continue for ad-supported domain businesses: —We processed 6.3 million new…

The headline pretty much says it all ... the Associated Press has ended its legal fight with Moreover Technologies and its parent VeriSign (NSDQ: VRSN). The news service sued the two in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York last October, claiming infringement. Terms of the settlement…

Not necessarily a secret, but Verisign is divesting of its “non-core” businesses, and has done some of them, but is now hitting road bumps in selling off some of the bigger units, as it admitted in its Q208 results call Wednesday. “As market conditions have worsened, buyers are taking more…

VeriSign (NSDQ: VRSN) has had news search and delivery firm Moreover Technologies on the blocks for months, part of the company’s to divest assets that don’t fit with its current strategy. Moreover had plenty of serious suitors back in 2005, when VeriSign bought it for $30 million—winning out over Google…

So however Verisign wants to spin it, it really really wanted to get rid of the Kontiki CDN part of its business. So much so that it sold it off to MK Capital for ” $1 million and 3,980,000 shares of the Purchaser’s Series A Preferred Stock,” according to an…

As has been expected for a while, Verisign has sold off its content delivery service Kontiki to MK Capital, a VC firm which invested in the P2P company prior to its sale we have learned and confirmed through sources. Verisign bought Kontiki in 2006, for around $62 million, but this…

The world’s going crazy with 10-K’s…and we’re making it easy for you. Our motto, just in case you didn’t know: We kill ourselves, so you don’t have to. Some of the main ones below with some relevant points culled out: —Getty (NYSE: GYI) Images: The images company is in the…

The Associated Press is following up on its threats to go after offending companies that copy or rewrite its stories, or use it “improperly”: first it sues Moreover and its parent company Verisign in October last year, and now it has filed a lawsuit against AHN Media and All Headline…

VeriSign (NSDQ: VRSN) announced in November that it planned to shed non-core assets, including communications, billing and commerce, though the fate of its CDN business remained unclear at the time. Now the company is actively shopping its CDN unit, according to The Business of Online Video, and we have also…

News Corp and Verisign’s Jamba mobile content JV will base its CEO in Berlin, become MySpace’s m-commerce facilitator in six European countries and push its new mobile/desktop music store out through broadband ISP portals as part of a new European focus. In an interview with paidContent:UK during a visit to…

Updated: This has been officially announced: Among the divisions it will divest: communications, billing and commerce. it will now focus on its Web site-naming and Internet security services. More details in release, but still unclear: if the mobile messaging and broadband content-delivery units will also be divested. Original post: This…