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Why Rob Glaser desperately wants to be a player

RealNetworks purchased Macrovision's games business for $4 million. Last year, it bought a casual games site called Gametrust for about $20 million. It's all part of RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser's plan to be a player in casual games. Just like he planned to be a player in online music. You know, before Apple crushed him. Or like how he planned to be a player in online video. Before Adobe's Flash laid him low. We give Glaser this much credit: He keeps spotting opportunities. The best business plan going seems to be to watch what markets Glaser enters, follow him, and do a better job.

12:40 PM on Fri Feb 22 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
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meanjoegreen at 01:03 PM on 02/22/08
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Let's not forget that Rob was the biggest debtor named in the bankruptcy filings of now defunct and incredibly ill conceived Air America.

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HumphreyBogus at 01:36 PM on 02/22/08
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You are aware that RNWK has a rather large games business, are you not? To the tune of $100M in revenue in 2007. (See pg. 4 of the financial info released with 4Q07 numbers here: 4Q07 Earnings and Financials). There are an awful lot of folks who'd like to have a games business that size.
matto at 01:54 PM on 02/22/08
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Wow. With a combo like Real and Macrovision, what's not to love!?
Ian Bell at 07:10 PM on 02/22/08
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Umm I am not sure Apple "crushed" them. Yahoo! replaced their music service with Rhapsody, and Microsoft's Music service is now Urge/Rhapsody, and don't forget new partners Nokia, Tivo Logitech etc etc.

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Rhapsody has stuck around longer than any other music service out there as far as I can tell.
chris525 at 10:02 AM on 02/23/08
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I think Fred Wilson at Union Square Ventures said it best in this post: Journabloggers Should Do Their Work Too-> [avc.blogs.com]