Tameka Kee
Dec 8, 2009 4:30 PM
The long-standing legal spat between RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) and VeriSign (NSDQ: VRSN) over a mobile messaging partnership the two companies brokered back in 2001 has been resolved—and not in the way that was originally expected. According to a newly-filed 8K, the original arbitration ruling in VeriSign’s favor has been overturned,…
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Rafat Ali
Jul 8, 2009 6:00 PM
RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) has lost an arbitration hearing against VeriSign (NSDQ: VRSN) related to a mobile partnership that the companies were involved with, according to an SEC filing that just came out from Real. The judgment came down in May and there was a further ruling on it under which…
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Rafat Ali
Aug 6, 2008 9:45 PM
Not necessarily a secret, but Verisign is divesting off its “non-core” businesses, and has done some of them, but is now hitting road bumps in selling off some of the bigger units, as it admitted in its Q208 results call today. “As market conditions have worsened, buyers are taking more…
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Rafat Ali
Mar 4, 2008 11:28 AM
Verisign, which sold off a 51 percent stake in Jamba/Jamster to News Corp in early 2007, has released some more details on developments since, in its 10-K, filed last week with SEC: —On investing more in Jamba over 2007: “Fox paid VeriSign (NSDQ: VRSN) approximately $192.4 million in cash for…
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