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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While our profit was substantially enlarged by the Microsoft antitrust settlement, our core businesses also contributed to that profit.
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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 do a lot of business with Microsoft, we talk to them all the time, we do advance disclosures and all that, but there's no specific contract negotiation right now,
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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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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 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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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 I enjoy working for a company of a size big enough to get things done but that's still nimble.
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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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Today's news is an important step in transitioning from illegal P2P sites to legal alternatives.
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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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While 2001 was a challenging year, we believe we are now entering a period of renewed growth.