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 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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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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We think that Microsoft disables our product and that clearly there was software that was designed intentionally to do so,
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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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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.
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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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As we're rolling out to the stakeholders who make the decisions as to how to deploy the networks, ... their response has been hugely positive.
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This fascination with the convergence of media and technology -- that's something that's compelled me for probably 20 years,
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That's most fun ? that, and seeing how the medium changes people's lives, are probably the two most exciting things about what I do.