— Vimeo appointed Lynn Girotto as chief marketing officer and Ashraf Alkarmi as chief product officer for the New York City video software company. Both will be based in the… Read More
— Mike Ensing, president and COO of RealNetworks, resigned this week. Ensing joined the publicly traded Seattle software company in 2020 as interim CFO, and was named president and COO later… Read More
Our guest on the GeekWire Podcast this week is Matt Hulett, a veteran of the Seattle tech community and the author of the new book, Unlock: 5 Questions to Unleash Your… Read More
Nearly 25 years after streaming media pioneer RealNetworks went public in one of the hottest IPOs of the dot-com era, the company’s founder and CEO wants take the Seattle-based company… Read More
— Tanuja Korlepra, a former Amazon and Microsoft product management leader, has been named chief technology officer of USAFacts, the Bellevue, Wash.-based nonpartisan civic data initiative founded by former Microsoft… Read More
A new device unveiled by RealNetworks on Wednesday morning uses facial recognition to replace traditional key cards for access control at office buildings. The product, called SAFR SCAN, will sell… Read More
Scener, the Seattle-based startup that adds a social layer to the viewing of streaming television content, has named David Baron as CEO. Baron helped launch Hulu in 2007 and spent… Read More
From its early days as a streaming audio pioneer to its recent expansion into facial recognition technology, RealNetworks has focused on software and services throughout its 27-year history. But the… Read More
Updated on Monday Aug. 9 with additional details. Not that long ago, Rover was on a very short leash. In March 2020, as the realities of the pandemic became clear,… Read More
The news: RealNetworks released a new product Wednesday aimed at blocking robocalls, which are on the rise and have become the top consumer complaint to the FCC. The tech: Called KONTXT… Read More
RealNetworks stock rose more than 15% in after-hours trading after the company posted a $8.2 million profit on $17.6 million in revenue, up 2%, for the December quarter. The Seattle-based… Read More
Julie Larson-Green, an engineering leader and executive who spent more than 25 years at Microsoft, is retiring from her position as the chief experience officer at Qualtrics. Her announcement follows… Read More
Rob Glaser is best known as the founder and CEO of RealNetworks, the Seattle-based company that specializes in digital media, games and computer vision technology. But for about two decades,… Read More
A new app from RealNetworks can detect whether people are wearing facemasks in public, seeking to help businesses, schools and others monitor compliance with public health guidelines designed to prevent… Read More
— Seattle-based ‘alternative VC’ firm Lighter Capital named Melissa Widner as its new CEO. She takes over from former CEO Thor Culverhouse, who replaced longtime Lighter exec BJ Lackland this… Read More
MelodyVR Group’s deal to acquire music service Napster, announced early this morning, could be a financial boon for RealNetworks, and not just because of the $70 million purchase price. RealNetworks,… Read More
— Microsoft is bringing more of its Windows team under Chief Product Officer Panos Panay as part of another reorganization this year. ZDNet reports the company is moving part of… Read More
RealNetworks is releasing a browser extension that automatically identifies celebrities and other public figures in YouTube and Netflix videos, using the same facial recognition technology that the company originally developed… Read More
RealNetworks, the 26-year-old streaming media pioneer that recently pivoted to developing facial recognition technology, today disclosed that it has received $2.87 million from the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program. The… Read More
— Smartsheet CFO Jenny Ceran will retire after transitioning to a successor. The collaboration work management company, which went public in 2018, will begin its search for a new CFO… Read More
More than 25 years after he founded RealNetworks, Rob Glaser is investing $10 million into the digital media pioneer as it makes a major pivot into facial recognition technology. The… Read More
— Cary Baker, currently chief financial officer at RealNetworks, will leave the company in February to join Seattle-based RFID maker Impinj as CFO. Baker was previously CFO at HEAT Software… Read More
Seattle-based graphic design and photo editing platform PicMonkey appointed Pearl Chan as chief financial officer and Judith McGarry as chief marketing officer. Chan previously held finance leadership roles at NetMotion… Read More
RealNetworks doubled its stake in Rhapsody International, which owns music streaming service Napster, from 42 to 84 percent. RealNetworks will pay $1 million up front in a deal that could… Read More
Today’s featured stories Born inside RealNetworks, Scener is a new Twitch-like commentary platform for streaming media Fresh patents served up for the smart shelf technologies seen in Amazon Go stores… Read More
A new software platform incubated inside RealNetworks is aiming to spice up streaming shows and movies with a Twitch-like social interaction layer. Scener lets people watch Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube with… Read More
It was quite a week for controversial news. First up: Would you let a facial recognition program track your kids at school? One tech dad is making the technology a… Read More
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RealNetworks, the Seattle company best known for pioneering streaming media in the early days of the web, is deploying a surprising new product today. The company says it will offer a… Read More
Tableau, the Seattle maker of data visualization software, has quietly hired away a senior Microsoft marketing executive to lead product marketing at the company. Mark Jewett joined Tableau as its… Read More