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RealNetworks

As Spotify plots U.S. invasion, Rhapsody fires some shots of its own and touts growth

It seems like years since Spotify first discussed plans to come to the U.S. Now, word is that the highly-touted… Read More

RealNetworks bets big on social TV, backs ClipSync

One of RealNetworks’ longest running online initiatives is its partnership with Big Brother, the CBS reality TV show. Now, Seattle-based Real… Read More

Geek of the Week: Braden Moulton, GameHouse

Back in the 1990s, Braden Moulton scripted a website to display his resume as if it were the opening text… Read More

Rhapsody to Google and Amazon: We’ve been doing music lockers since you were little kids

Cloud-based music lockers are all of the rage these days, with Google and Amazon.com recently launching new services and Apple… Read More

Ringback tones as status updates: RealNetworks working on ‘Hey Yo’ project

RealNetworks, attempting to reinvent itself with a new slate of products, is working on new type of ringback tone that… Read More

With eyes on Facebook, RealNetworks’ GameHouse makes ‘Lets Make a Deal’ deal

GameHouse, the last big content-producing business inside Seattle’s RealNetworks, is still awaiting its own deal — a long-planned spinoff that… Read More

RealNetworks plans new digital photo and video utilities, too

Turns out RealNetworks isn’t just getting into the business of cleaning up iTunes music libraries. The digital media pioneer, trying… Read More

RealNetworks plans new ‘Rinse’ clean-up tool for iTunes

RealNetworks has developed a new program called Rinse for cleaning up and organizing Apple iTunes libraries on Windows PCs and… Read More

Nerd Notes: Kid sides with Vader, Google Earth wackery and an Angry Birds birthday

Some kid chooses the Dark Side over the Jedi Academy and makes a couple of Disney workers extremely uncomfortable. Apparently… Read More

RealNetworks huddles with (what’s left of) its employees

RealNetworks has experienced a huge shakeup over the past couple years. Its founder Rob Glaser left the CEO’s office. The… Read More

With upgrade, RealNetworks tries to help Helix media server through mid-life crisis

RealNetworks is attempting to remake the image of one of its oldest products, launching a refreshed version of its Helix… Read More

Q&A: Rhapsody rebounding after RealNetworks spinoff

Rhapsody International, on its own now for a full year, has added more than 100,000 new subscribers over the past… Read More

Exiting RealNetworks CEO gets $2M on the way out

Bob Kimball, the departing RealNetworks CEO, will receive a severance payment of $1.7 million from the company plus another $283,000… Read More

Surprise: RealNetworks CEO Kimball resigns

[Post updated with more details, quotes from Glaser] Bob Kimball has resigned as president and CEO of RealNetworks, a little… Read More

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