ExactTarget Adds Technology Crossover Ventures to Board of Directors and raises $70 million. The company, a global provider of on-demand email marketing and one-to-one marketing solutions, announced today that David Yuan of Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV) has joined its board of directors following an investment in the company by the Silicon Valley-based venture fund. "David and the TCV team...
For those of you who don’t know, this little gossip blog is largely funded by the fantastic folks over at RealNetworks. Scoff all you want, but Wendie and Molly and Kelly and I — as well as the women of Zelda Lily and Lilly Likes — wouldn’t be here for you to scoff at daily [...]
RealPlayer SP, A small desktop application from RealNetworks, which allows users to save and share Flash videos, has been downloaded 100 million times, the company said today. Earlier this year, we spoke with RealNetwork's Jeff Chasen about the new application....
An SEC filing made by RealNetworks states that MTV and RealNetworks are in talks about restructuring their joint venture participation in the music service Rhapsody, “to enable Rhapsody to operate more independently of either party.” The statement suggests that the pair might seek either a new investor or a buyer for Rhapsody. While services like [...]
RealNetworks has signed a three-year deal to power the music service for SFR. The service was transitioned to Real's platform on 17 November 2009. ...
NEW YORK, Nov 19 (Reuters) - U.S. digital media company RealNetworks Inc is in talks with partner MTV Networks to restructure the ownership of their two-year old Rhapsody America joint venture, according to a regulatory filing on Thursday.
This is not a surprise considering the continued decline of Rhapsody music service in the face of lots of new competition and the general malaise in the digital music market: MTV and RealNetworks ( NSDQ: RNWK ) are talking about restructuring their Rhapsody music JV, according to an SEC filing just filed by RNWK. The relevant part: “to enable Rhapsody to operate more independently of either...
RealNetworks and MTV are in talks to restructure their Rhapsody music joint venture, according to a SEC filing that RealNetworks just filed . Read the rest of this story »
Seattle - RealNetworks (NASD: RNWK) announced on Wednesday that it has signed a three-year deal to power the mobile music service for France-based mobile network operator SFR. Real said its mobile music services are now deployed with 15 providers in 14 countries, including 11 in Europe. read more
Got any suggestions for the 3 Count. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: RealNetworks Appeals Injunction on RealDVD Sales First off today, Real, the company most famous for its RealPlayer product, is appealing an injunction that is barring it from selling RealDVD, it’s DVD ripping and storage product that the movie studios have launched a legal [...]
Why doesn’t OpenSuSe support MP3 ‘out of the box’? OpenSuSe cannot include support for MP3 or DVD video playback or recording. MP3 formats are patented, and the patent holders have not provided the necessary licenses. OpenSuSe also excludes other multimedia software due to patent, copyright, or license restrictions, such as Adobe Flash Player and RealNetworks RealPlayer. That doesn’t...
SALZBURG, Austria and SEATTLE, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- RealNetworks®, Inc. (RNWK), the digital entertainment services company, transitioned the music service for mobilkom austria group's (MAG) Si.mobil to its platform on November 12, 2009, adding all-you-can-eat functionality and upgrading the service to Real's mobile and PC client interface. This is the second deployment under Real's...
San Francisco - RealNetworks (NASD: RNWK) has filed an appeal of a judge's injunction against the sale of the company's RealDVD software, which can make copies of DVDs, CNET News.com reported. read more
RealNetworks has appealed the DVD copying decision it lost in August, arguing that the federal judge overseeing the case should be overturned on several key points.