Rob Glaser
Rob Glaser
Rob Glaseris the founder of RealNetworkswhich produces RealAudio, RealVideo, RealPlayer, and Helix, among other products and services. Before founding RealNetworks, he had become a millionaire by working for Microsoft for ten years...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth16 January 1962
CountryUnited States of America
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Our two growth businesses have been music and games so if you could do acquisitions that accelerate that I wouldn't rule it out.
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Our third quarter results demonstrated the ongoing strength of our business model. We also delivered on the growth strategies that are enabling us to expand our industry leadership position, including advancements focused on accelerating the adoption of Internet media and the viable business models to support it.
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We have some hard problems to solve: The applications are quite complex, the delivery systems can be difficult to master, and the applications that were once the domain of high-end users are now crossing over to the mass market. But I have no doubts that we and others (content delivery companies) will be up to the task.
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We've laid the foundation to bring our two companies together around entertainment areas that allow consumers to get what they want, where they want it, when they want it, and how they want it.
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I think I enjoy working for a company of a size big enough to get things done but that's still nimble.
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While 2001 was a challenging year, we believe we are now entering a period of renewed growth.
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We've done a careful review of this, and we believe Microsoft is incorrect,
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We think that Microsoft disables our product and that clearly there was software that was designed intentionally to do so,
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Today's news is an important step in transitioning from illegal P2P sites to legal alternatives.
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My sense is, it's actually kind of an interesting dynamic. Microsoft, for reasons that I don't understand - but I welcome - seems to be trying to cram a proprietary Microsoft-only agenda down the throat of the entire consumer electronics industry, and the entire mobile industry, and the entire media industry.
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six months to a year from now is realistic.
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With the carriers now moving to 2.5G and 3G, products such as streaming radio, on-demand music and on-demand radio streaming will become more attractive to users,
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We'll have some video download services if you just want to get a movie trailer and watch it, but in terms of streaming content, we'll mostly be doing audio - the stuff we did back in '95 with the PC. So in the everything-old-is-new-again world, we're seeing familiar trends in the mobile market.
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We're not one closed monolithic system where you have to use their device, their software and their service,