{"id":299260,"date":"2010-02-09T18:10:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T23:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/?p=62623"},"modified":"2010-02-09T18:10:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T23:10:16","slug":"real-spins-off-rhapsody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/299260","title":{"rendered":"Real Spins Off Rhapsody"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"text-transform:uppercase\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/deals\/\">deals<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/music\/\">music<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/digital-media\/\">digital media<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<strong>Gregory T. Huang wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Seattle-based RealNetworks and MTV Networks <a href=\"http:\/\/realnetworks.com\/pressroom\/releases\/2010\/corp_rhap_via.aspx\">announced today<\/a> they will spin off their digital music service joint venture, Rhapsody, into a separate company. Under the terms of the deal, RealNetworks (NASDAQ: <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=RNWK\">RNWK<\/a>) will no longer be the majority owner and operator of Rhapsody; the new company will not have a single majority owner. Real says this is a significant first step in making itself more focused and profitable. More information on the restructuring can be found in the <a href=\"http:\/\/investor.realnetworks.com\/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1299933-10-526\">Form 8-K<\/a> that Real filed with the SEC today. The deal is expected to close at the end of this quarter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"postFooter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/seattle\/2010\/02\/09\/real-spins-off-rhapsody\/#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/reprints\/>Reprints<\/a> | Share: &nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=RT%20@Xconomy%20Real%20Spins%20Off%20Rhapsody%20http:\/\/xconomy.com\/?p=62623\"  rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/twitter.gif\" alt=\"Retweet\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/seattle\/2010\/02\/09\/real-spins-off-rhapsody\/&#038;t=Real%20Spins%20Off%20Rhapsody\"  rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/facebook.gif\" alt=\"Facebook\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/seattle\/2010\/02\/09\/real-spins-off-rhapsody\/email\/  rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/email.gif\" alt=\"Email\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/sharethis.com\/item?publisher=bfda184d-6684-4f7a-a23f-ca4ed4db9287&amp;title=Real+Spins+Off+Rhapsody&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.xconomy.com%2Fseattle%2F2010%2F02%2F09%2Freal-spins-off-rhapsody%2F\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/share.gif\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t     \t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div style=\"font-size:xx-small;color:gray;padding-bottom:.5em\">Advertisement:<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/feeds\/ht.php?t=c&amp;i=0a8e6956f1ab059036d1e2b7e03b2b4e&amp;p=1\">Comcast Business Class<\/a><\/div>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<div style=\"float:left\"><object id=\"flashObj\" width=\"486\" height=\"412\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9\/64253217001?isVid=1&#038;publisherID=1660622131\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"@videoPlayer=64310369001&#038;playerID=64253217001&#038;domain=embed&#038;\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9\/64253217001?isVid=1&#038;publisherID=1660622131\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" flashVars=\"@videoPlayer=64310369001&#038;playerID=64253217001&#038;domain=embed&#038;\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" width=\"300\" height=\"250 seamlesstabbing=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" swLiveConnect=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"HSPACE=10 align=\"left\" \/><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?a=v3%3A5e0307ab13a207a0d53fb2dfdebc3ee9%3AW853T4sVllExSXnYEgPjqgAEVOwOKPykYVzkiKRZJxRW%2F2KeTr7e1P%2FIJj41HorHzOl47uMKaoE6IUT4lDMrKbH65nS7bcSsiZzeRipFSS75GVdNpbtMZOOUfArYeEi1KHrT2oIfDc%2BkOvdwNxv%2B1Wz8UuHWnGP9nygOnBIAejWDIh9BLgxGDYiKFfDsJA%3D%3D\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.pheedo.com\/g\/comcast\/comcast_bc_blue_250x70.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><font size=\"4\" face=\"Arial Black\" color=\"orangered\" >Look at your bill and<br \/>find out how much your<br \/>business can save <\/font><br \/><font size=\"3\" face=\"Arial Black\" >with Comcast Business Class. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial Black\" color=\"dodgerblue\" >Internet, Phone &#038; 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Huang wrote: Seattle-based RealNetworks and MTV Networks announced today they will spin off their digital music service joint venture, Rhapsody, into a separate company. Under the terms of the deal, RealNetworks (NASDAQ: RNWK) will no longer be the majority owner and operator of Rhapsody; the new company will not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1747,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-news","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1747"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}