RealNetworks Makes Deal
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RealNetworks has agreed to buy a South Korean maker of software for selling music and ring tones on mobile phones for $350 million.
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RealNetworks could lose $2 million from below-cost sales -- but will give its service a huge boost,&quot; says Forrester Research analyst Rebecca Jennings.
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RealNetworks announced a new version of its RealPlayer media player software -- the player will support rival formats Flash and QuickTime.
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Currently both Napster and RealNetworks offer music services with a subscription option where users who subscribe get to listen to all the music they want for a flat fee of around US$9.95 a month.
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RealNetworks announced that it has sold 1 million songs in the week since beginning its half-price music promotion. Real dropped song pricing to 49-cents from 99-cents, in part to highlight its Harmony technology, which allows purchased songs to be played on over 70 digital media players including Apple's iPod. But Apple has chastised Real for what it calls "tactics and ethics of a hacker," and says future iPod software updates will likely break compatibility with Harmony.
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RealNetworks halves the price of music downloads in an aggressive attempt to boost its share of the online music market.
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RealNetworks rolls out a media player with clip downloading functionality.
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Company is developing a fiber network that will deliver TV and data to homes.
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RealNetworks Inc. is merging its RealPlayer and Music Services business units into a single group so that the teams can collaborate on developing new products and services, the company announced Thursday.
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RealNetworks launches a beta version of its RealPlayer software that allows users to easily record and download videos to their PCs.
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Roundbox, the leader in mobile broadcast and multicast software, is today announcing integration of RealNetworks'(R) Helix(TM) DNA Client into the company's solution for mobile operators.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- NTL Inc. said late Wednesday that it has agreed to sell it broadcast business for 1.27 billion pounds ($2.46 billion) to a consortium led by Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group.
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RealNetworks Inc. on Monday launched the test version of a service that aims to provide personalized news and other information to users' computers, marking the latest effort by a technology company to establish a desktop presence.
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[Seattle | Reuters News Service, 10 September 2004] - RealNetworks is ending its 49c-per-song music download service but will keep the promotional prices in place for top 10 songs, the Internet media and software company said yesterday.
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RealNetworks survived the dot-com collapse and an assault from Microsoft. Now it's trying to remake itself into a provider of paid Internet content.
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Earlier this year RealNetworks came up with a workaround allowing music downloaded from its store to work on iPods. This was achieved by reverse-engineering Apple&#39;s FairPlay technology, and Real named it Harmony (see our previous coverage).
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RealNetworks is sending a real message to Apple, their largest competitor in the online music market. On Tuesday, RealNetworks announced that it was launching the biggest music sale in history, offering single music downloads for just 49 cents, and most ...