Seattle-based RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) unleashed a series of announcements at Mobile World Congress, detailing a number of customer wins to demonstrate that its video and music platforms are starting to gain momentum. In addition to the news we reported earlier in the week that RealNetworks has taken an undisclosed stake…

In this busy Mobile World Congress week, RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) has made its own series of mobile-related announcements, and the one most interesting is that the digital services company has taken a minority stake in Korean telco giant SK Telecom’s digital music division “LoEn”, to jointly develop and market digital…

RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) made a slew of announcements at CTIA, adding more multimedia capabilities to its platform: —China Unicom-emoticonSMS: RealNetworks launched the next generation of its emoticonSMS service to China Unicom’s mobile subscribers, making it available to more than 10 million subscribers in the Sichuan and Chongqing regions. Branded xPressiveMMS…

Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) and RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) put on a lunch-time event in West Hollywood today, but hardly anyone showed up – making the intimate affair seem even smaller than planned. The five journalists that did make it to the event were handily outnumbered by the Verizon and RealNetworks…

RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) CEO Rob Glaser used a few minutes during yesterday afternoon’s earnings call to paint a rosy picture of Music Without Limits and alluded to some promising early results from the new service. “Delivering a great mobile music experience has been one of our industry’s holy grails for…

RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), which helps carriers sell ringtones, ringback tones and full-track music, believes the continuing trend in mobile content is to provide a bite-sized or “snackable” content experience, whereas the TV and PC will be the venues for longer, richer, high-definition experiences, according to Analisa Roberts, RealNetwork’s senior director…

Verizon Wireless hosted a conference call today to give some more details on its new partnership with Rhapsody America, a joint venture between RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) and MTV. RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser was on the phone along with John Harrobin, SVP of digital media and marketing for Verizon (NYSE: VZ).…

RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), among the early proponents on DRM-free music, has finally been able to launch an MP3 store, joining the likes of Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), Napster (NSDQ: NAPS) and iTunes, who have started offering a range of MP3 options over the last year. Rhapsody’s MP3 store…

Rafat is reporting over on our sister site PaidContent.org that RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) says it will spin-off its global casual games business into an independent company by the end of the year. The company is looking at two scenarios: distributing shares of the new company to shareholders, or complete an…

At CTIA in Las Vegas, I briefly spoke to Rob Glaser, CEO of RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) on his company’s mobile content efforts and working, on working with carriers, the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone hype, the opening up of the mobile networks, integration of WiderThan. One major point: he warned against…

Mobile operators should follow the lead of cable TV operators by bundling content together and selling it in packages, says RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) CEO Rob Glaser in an interview. He argues that putting content in packages would deliver users more content at a lower price than today’s a-la-carte pricing, and…

RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) laid off just under 2 percent of its international staff last week—35 from headquarters Seattle, the rest in Asia and Europe. A spokesman told the Seattle P-I the cuts were across the board to reduce “redundancies” from recent acquisitions. In the past two years, Real’s acquisitions include…