We’ve heard about companies being on life support, but this is a new one on us. With flatlining revenues and a moribund stock price, RealNetworks certainly needs resuscitation. Is it… Read More
The new CEO of RealNetworks promised further changes as the company posted a net loss of $2.8 million for the fourth quarter on revenue of $80.2 million, a decline of… Read More
It might be hard to believe in this modern era of HTML5, HD streaming video, Netflix and Hulu, but there was a time when the web — or the World… Read More
RealNetworks has cut another 22 jobs, shaving its workforce in an ongoing effort to focus its business. The layoffs were made last week, including some at the company’s Seattle headquarters,… Read More
Steve Ballmer was right. It’s all about developers, developers, developers these days. In fact, the market is so hot that companies like Amazon.com, Twitter and Facebook are doing “acqui-hires” —… Read More
Yapta has named GameHouse president Matt Hulett to the board, part of an ongoing transformation of the Seattle startup from a consumer travel company to one focused on business-to-business services.… Read More
The best insights, observations, comments, tweets and random zingers we heard this week. “In short, we’ll treat you as a single user across all our products, which will mean a… Read More
Newly minted RealNetworks CEO Thomas Nielsen has pragmatic outlook, a sharp sense of humor and a ton of energy, as evidenced by the fact that he sealed one of the… Read More
Post updated at 7:45 a.m. Intel will pay RealNetworks $120 million in cash for a portfolio of 190 patents, 170 patent applications and the Seattle company’s next-generation video-codec software, under… Read More
Another day, another executive departure from RealNetworks. Yesterday, we reported that chief financial officer Michael Eggers — a 14-year veteran of the company — was stepping down. Now, we’ve gotten… Read More
RealNetworks continues to churn through top executives, with the Seattle digital media company announcing today in a SEC filing that Michael Eggers has resigned as senior vice president and chief… Read More
It was a tough year for most of the publicly-traded tech companies in Washington state, with just a handful posting positive overall stock performance. Even tech titans like Amazon.com, Microsoft… Read More
GameHouse says it will open a larger office for its games studio in Victoria, B.C., and plans to more than double its staff there to at least 45 people by the end… Read More
Rhapsody says it has surpassed 1 million paying subscribers — leveraging its MetroPCS partnership, its recent acquisition of Napster and the rise of mobile devices to solidify its position as… Read More
It’s that time of year when members of the tech community give back. But RealNetworks executive Matt Hulett, who runs the company’s GameHouse unit, almost gave back a little too… Read More
For years, here’s how things worked in Apple’s app store. You discovered a mobile app you liked, and then you either downloaded it for free or paid a small one-time… Read More
A new survey commissioned by GameHouse, the RealNetworks video-game division, finds that women who play online games are more social than those who don’t and also have sex more frequently… Read More
[Updated with comments from Rob Glaser] RealNetworks just named Thomas Nielsen as its new chief executive officer, filling the spot vacated by the surprise departure of Bob Kimball earlier this… Read More
Facebook is beginning to expand its Facebook Credits system beyond its own social networking site with a new initiative called Facebook Credits for Websites. Seattle-based GameHouse, the RealNetworks games division,… Read More
GameHouse, the RealNetworks game division, is placing a big bet on social and mobile games. The company says it’s investing more than $10 million in those areas this year, and… Read More
RealNetworks this morning named one of its existing executives, Judith Bitterli, as the new senior vice president of its Unifi cloud computing division. The news follows the surprise departure this… Read More
There have been a number of key hires and moves in the Pacific Northwest technology industry in recent days. Here’s a quick look. Sarah Novotny, who previously co-founded Blue Gecko,… Read More
Hank Skorny announced last week his intentions to leave RealNetworks, the Seattle software company where he’d worked for the past two years as chief strategy officer. At the time, it… Read More
The executive management upheaval continues at RealNetworks, with the Seattle company announcing today that Hank Skorny plans to resign as chief strategy officer and senior vice president effective September 16th.… Read More
Kal Raman has quietly stepped down as CEO of GlobalScholar, the company he founded in 2006 and sold to Scantron last year, GeekWire has learned. Raman, the former CEO of drugstore.com,… Read More
Rhapsody has struck a deal with MetroPCS Communications to make the Rhapsody Unlimited Music service a new feature of the wireless carrier’s premium monthly cell-phone plan. The Seattle-based music service… Read More
Google is escalating its challenge to Facebook by expanding its fledgling Google+ social networking service into games — allowing people to invite each other to play games, and trumpet their… Read More
RealNetworks today announced a series of moves to “reinvigorate” the business and make the 16-year-old Seattle company more attractive to investors. It plans to return $136 million to investors in… Read More
We’ve been tracking a number of key departures, appointments and new hires in the Pacific Northwest tech industry in recent days. Here are a few notable Tech Moves: Motricity has… Read More
Given the timing, EA’s blockbuster deal to acquire Seattle’s PopCap Games for between $750 million and $1.3 billion is destined to be Topic No. 1 in the hallways at next… Read More
