Liz Gannes in Social on January 19 at 9:33 am PT
Twitter has acquired Summify, a small start-up that smartly aggregates links shared by users’ friends on social networks.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on October 19, 2011 at 8:59 pm PT
Coming out of stealth today with $24 million from Redpoint Ventures, Accel and other investors, Qwilt stores copies of the videos that are popular in your neighborhood to help make the network run faster. And? It uses flash memory to do it! Flash Madness continues.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on March 28, 2011 at 4:06 pm PT
That was quick. Bob Kimball has resigned as president and CEO of RealNetworks after being promoted to the position a year ago in January.
Kara Swisher in News on June 22, 2010 at 1:21 pm PT
This is just hitting the wires: Yet another restructuring of RealNetworks, complete with layoffs, office closures and a new organizational look.
The company is cutting 85 jobs, including a good chunk of its exec team, along with dumping some global offices. This means about $10 million in restructuring charges said RealNetworks in a statement.
Kara Swisher in News on May 25, 2010 at 8:50 pm PT
Rob Glaser, the founder of RealNetworks, is joining Accel Partners as a part-time venture partner.
Ironically, it was Accel that first funded the digital media pioneer, leading a critical $5.7 million round for RealNetworks in 1995.
Glaser said in an interview this afternoon with BoomTown that he will focus on digital media, as well as social and mobile start-ups, especially in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest area where he lives and where he founded RealNetworks.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 9, 2010 at 1:26 pm PT
Real Networks and Viacom are reorganizing Rhapsody, their joint-venture music service, and will be spinning it off into an independent company, they told the Securities and Exchange Commission today. Rhapsody, along with Best Buy’s Napster, sell music via monthly subscription, as opposed to Apple’s a la carte download offering. But neither service has been able to gain much traction, despite years of effort. More shortly.
Drake Martinet in News on January 16, 2010 at 12:30 pm PT
The whole AllThingsD team was shaking off the Consumer Electronic Show haze this week and getting back to business as usual. Just when we thought we’d left the craziness behind, we found ourselves knee-deep in a week of international espionage, network TV nastiness and a certain semiconductor manufacturer makin’ a heap-o-cash, but more on that later.
Kara Swisher in News on January 15, 2010 at 5:20 am PT
Rob Glaser called BoomTown when he landed in Washington, D.C., only a few hours after he announced Wednesday he was stepping down as longtime CEO of RealNetworks…Although execs come and go in various and sundry ways–you simply have to give Glaser credit for his pioneering work in bringing both audio and video to the Web.
