Topic: RealNetworks Inc.

Wireless Streaming Audio

RealNetworks is introducing its streaming audio service on web-enabled Sprint PCS phones. Maybe wireless is starting to live up to the hype it's been getting since the late nineties? The real quality, of course, remains to be seen, ...READ»

RealNetworks Touts Cheaper Songs

Forty-nine cents a song! Check out RealNetworks's Web site for its latest deal. The media firm has just started a marketing campaign, and it's targeting archrival Apple Computer. RealNetworks even sports a Web site that touts ...READ»

Think Ahead: Rob Glaser

A dispatch from PC Forum 2001.READ»

The Ultimate Guide to Internet Deals

Companies that want to make it big on the Net have to learn how to make deals fast. Here are hands-on lessons and real-world stories from some of the Web's best deal makers. Are you ready to deal?READ»

Listen Up! The Web Makes Noise

The Web has become a feast for the ears as well as the eyes. You can listen in on conference calls with Wall Street analysts, get breaking news from the Balkans, or download the latest tune from Fatboy Slim. Here's Fast Company's listener's guide.READ»

The Most Innovative Companies in Gaming

You have seen our Fast Company 50. But what are the companies within specific categories doing creative and ground-breaking work? Who is leading an industry into the future? Here we present the top ten firms in Gaming.READ»

Fast 50 2008: RealNetworks

While most of us have been busy rebuilding our music collection yet again -- at 99 cents a download -- RealNetworks has been putting together the building blocks of the next revolution in music. Its Rhapsody subscription service ...READ»

• Presenting the 2008 Fast 50
• The World's Most Innovative Companies
• The Faces and Voices of Google

Google Checks Out The PC of Renewable Energy

Imagine you could go to Home Depot and for a few hundred dollars purchase an appliance that plugs in like a blender and generates a chunk of the energy your home needs, renewable and emissions-free. This dream may be just 12-to-18 ...READ»

The changing role of leaders and managers today…are you keeping up?

It is my pleasure to introduce guest blogger, Holly G. Green. Enjoy her post below.  -SethRemember The One Minute Manager? The all time best selling management book was written more than twenty five years ago.  Pause ...READ»

MTV’s New Digital Forays

Music television no more. MTV is targeting the digital realm of video games and the Web in a dizzying array of new deals.READ»

• MTV's Digital Makeover

The Journey

A letter from the founding editorsREAD»

Build Your Place in Cyberspace

From registering a domain name to adding just the right touches, here's our 10-step guide to help you build your home on the Web.READ»

Can a Public Radio Station Monetize its Large Web Audience?

Broadcasting from a basement studio at Santa Monica College, KCRW has built a national and even international audience on the web. According to General Manager Ruth Seymour, KCRW generates more than 1.6 million streaming hours per ...READ»

The World's Most Innovative Companies

We canvassed the experts, analyzed the products, and crunched the numbers. From visionary upstarts to storied stalwarts, here are companies that dazzle with new ideas -- and prove beyond a doubt how business is a force for change. We call them the Fast 50.READ»

• Presenting the 2008 Fast 50
• The Faces and Voices of Google
• Slideshow: The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies

Ears Wide Open

Slim Devices is a Silicon Valley startup with hot products for audiophiles. It's also a next-generation open organization where customers imagine and design the products. Is this the company of the future?READ»

Apple Hits The Living Room

After the runaway success of its iTunes music software and iPod music player, Apple Computer has added a new gadget to its digital music kit -- the Airport Express, a wireless networking device aimed at turning your living room into ...READ»

Fast Talk: My Hardest Decision

Like a career, a company is the result of moves made and of opportunities lost. Five high-profile leaders reflect on their most difficult calls.READ»

What's Behind The Acronyms

In order to participate in the discussion it's helpful to know what people are talking about. I've grabbed some of my favorite acronyms from a number of different online sources. I invite everyone to amend, alter, correct and ...READ»

Rwanda Rising: A New Model of Economic Development

Fifteen years after the genocide, the small African country has embraced a new model of economic development. Its strategy: Build a global network of powerful friends to lure private investment -- and market the brand of Rwanda.READ»

• Slideshow: The Rwandan Genocide 15 Years Later

Talent Bank

Thomas Weisel turned his former firm, Montgomery Securities, into an investment-banking powerhouse. Now he's building a new firm -- and gaining ground on some of the most established names on Wall Street.READ»

Media: Internet Killed the Video Star?

A little over 26 years ago MTV revolutionized the way we interact with music by using music videos as programming, not just promotion. Suddenly we went from merely listening to music on the radio to more fully experiencing it on TV. ...READ»

Digital Squared: Living in an iTunes World

There's an important lesson in Apple Computer's phenomenal success with iTunes. It's understanding that the digital acquisition of digital products is a new megamarket.READ»

MTV Plants Its Flag in the Digital World

The network famously missed its chance to buy MySpace. Lesson learned. Now its president, Van Toffler, is investing in dozens of digital media projects. Its 2006 acquisition of Harmonix Music Systems, the maker of the video game Rock Band, could soon develop into a billion-dollar business. And more digital developments seem to surface almost daily, including the launch earlier in the week of MTVmusic.com, MTV's first serious attempt at a full-fledged music-video site; and today's announcement of a deal that will bring the Beatles' music to the Rock Band format.READ»

• MTV’s New Digital Forays
• The Beatles Join MTV’s Digital Empire
• MTV Finally Returns to the Music Video Business

Fast 50 Updates

Thirty-three of the companies on last year's Fast Company 50 didn't make the list this time. But that doesn't mean they've lost their luster. Here's what they've been up to.READ»

Flip Your Competition

Harvard Business School professor David B. Yoffie takes the martial arts into the executive suite. Your rivals will flip over his ideas (if you apply them right).READ»