Real politics: Why candidates are sprouting from RealNetworks and other tech companies A few months ago, I wrote a story about the role that RealNetworks has played in creating a wave of… Read More
RealNetworks posts $22M loss on slumping sales: CEO Rob Glaser pledges to get back to profitability Struggling RealNetworks posted a $22 million net loss for the third quarter, driven in part by $11 million in restructuring… Read More
RealNetworks cuts 80 jobs, more ahead — Glaser says it sucks but he has a plan RealNetworks is cutting 80 jobs, or 7 percent of its workforce, and plans to eliminate an additional 80 positions in… Read More
RealPlayer for Android exits beta with new premium option RealNetworks released its free RealPlayer for Android today, bringing the app out of beta and attempting to grab the attention… Read More
RealNetworks posts profit on Intel patent deal, but signals deep cuts ahead RealNetworks today posted profits of $81 million for the second quarter, thanks to its sale of a large patent portfolio to… Read More
RealNetworks names Seattle angel investor to board Just two weeks after RealNetworks reinserted founder Rob Glaser as interim CEO, more changes are coming to the Seattle technology… Read More
RealNetworks CEO resigns, and Rob Glaser is back, for now Thomas Nielsen has resigned as RealNetworks CEO after seven months in the job, and founder Rob Glaser has been appointed… Read More
Seattle’s unlikely hero? How RealNetworks sparked the region’s startup community Seattle’s tech industry may be known for heavyweights such as Amazon.com and Microsoft. But the DNA of another company has… Read More
Sidecar: A mobile app that’s trying to reinvent the phone call RealNetworks founder Rob Glaser, who helped usher in the era of online video and audio, now wants to reinvent the… Read More
Flashback: RealVideo lit up the web 15 years ago this week It might be hard to believe in this modern era of HTML5, HD streaming video, Netflix and Hulu, but there… Read More
Ex-Microsoft interns sell Summify to Twitter: Popular news service will shut down Mircea Paşoi and Cristian Strat, the two Romanian Web developers who founded Summify instead of taking jobs at Facebook and… Read More
Kindle Fire will outsell iPad, Windows Phone will rebound, and six other tech predictions Facebook will go public in 2012. Apple will lose some of its innovative edge without Steve Jobs. And the majority… Read More
Rob Glaser returns to his roots, joins $24 million round for video delivery startup Qwilt Rob Glaser helped pioneer the online video, founding RealNetworks in 1995 a mere 10 years before YouTube came into existence.… Read More
Here are the problems facing Groupon and Living Social: Scale, repeat customers and targeting Are Groupon and Living Social the next great things in online advertising? Or, are they just a flash in the… Read More
Hank Skorny out at RealNetworks The executive management upheaval continues at RealNetworks, with the Seattle company announcing today that Hank Skorny plans to resign as… Read More
RealNetworks giving back $136M to shareholders in major overhaul RealNetworks today announced a series of moves to “reinvigorate” the business and make the 16-year-old Seattle company more attractive to… Read More
Madrona, Rob Glaser and others pump $3.5M into mobile app Zapd PressPlane, a Seattle startup which incubated the mobile application Zapd, has raised a little more than $3 million from Madrona… 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
Ex-Microsoft and Google interns launch Summify, with cash from Rob Glaser and others Two Romanian Web developers who recently landed in Vancouver, B.C. have just scored a first round of capital from RealNetworks… 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
