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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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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My view is that the opportunities in front of us are very good, and we'll continue to more than hold our own on the PC.
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I think all this stuff, ultimately, is going to blow over, ... Once the record companies make their collections available in a reasonable way, from an economic standpoint, consumers don't have to choose between not downloading or downloading illegally.
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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 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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We've done a careful review of this, and we believe Microsoft is incorrect,
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We are not immune to the current market environment for Internet-related spending, and we've made adjustments to our near-term growth expectations. At the same time, we remain highly confident in our fundamentals, leadership position, and long-term prospects.
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Today's news is an important step in transitioning from illegal P2P sites to legal alternatives.
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There's the growth of bandwidth, and that is a fundamentally positive trend for us, because it allows us to deliver better and better experiences.
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Consumers should say, 'Apple, we won't buy your music until you make your DRM interoperable,'
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Today we're closing one chapter and opening a new one in our relationship with Microsoft.
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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.