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Based on the aggregated intelligence of 145,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS , the Fool's free investing community, digital entertainment company RealNetworks has received a distressing two-star ranking .

DM: Andreas, I imagine a lot of people dona t realise that RealNetworks is in the Ringback Tone business, how did you get involved? AS: I came from Sony Net Services, which was an e-commerce innovation lab within Sony that was founded in 2000.

NutriSystem Inc.'s stock price gained 14% for the week after the retailer announced a deal to sell its products through Walgreen Co.'s Walgreens drugstores and Walgreens.com. NutriSystem, which also sells online, led the way as the Internet Retailer Online Retail Index of 25 e-commerce stocks gained 0.36% for the week.

Real Networks is launching Collapse! , the latest version of one of its flagship games, for a host of devices today.

Seattle-based RealGames, the gaming division of RealNetworks , announced today its puzzle game Collapse! is now available on Facebook and a number of mobile platforms including BlackBerry, iPhone, and Android, along with downloadable versions for PC and Mac.

Shares of RealNetworks Inc. soared Wednesday after investors learned that the digital entertainment company will not have to pay damages to VeriSign Inc.

Shares of RealNetworks were given a boost Wednesday, after an arbitrator settled the company's dispute with VeriSign, finding that Real did not interfere with VeriSign's planned sale of its mobile messaging unit.

The tech sector dipped early Wednesday as shares of Texas Instruments Inc. fell on what analysts said was likely a wave of profit-taking. The Dallas-based chip behemoth /quotes/comstock/13*!txn /quotes/nls/txn narrowed its earnings outlook late Tuesday, pointing to a strong fourth quarter, but some analysts said investors' expectations may have ...

Shares of RealNetworks Inc. soared Wednesday after investors learned that the digital entertainment company will not have to pay damages to VeriSign Inc.

RealNetworks Inc surged 14.8 % to $3.96 in premarket trade on Wednesday after the company disclosed in an SEC filing that an arbitrator had disposed of all claims in its pending arbitration with VeriSign Inc .

Analysts at J.P. Morgan lifted their rating Wednesday on RealNetworks Inc. to neutral from underweight, citing a more favorable-than-expected ruling for the digital-media company in its arbitration with VeriSign Inc.

The long-standing legal spat between RealNetworks and VeriSign over a mobile messaging partnership the two companies brokered back in 2001 has been resolved - and not in the way that was originally expected.

You only have to look at the rivalry between AT&T and Verizon Wireless to know that mobile broadband will become a choke-point as more users stream video, read email and update their Facebook status on the go.

Warner Bros. messed with the wrong guy when it sent muddled royalty statements to Tim Quirk, singer for Too Much Joy, a pop band that had some traction in the 1980s and early 1990s and still sells a few downloads.

SecondsOut.tv, from boxing portal "SecoundsOut":http://www.SecondsOut.com, has been developed in partnership with RealNetworks and Mediawave.

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So, does the future of Rhapsody now hang in the balance?A Joint venture partners RealNetworks and MTV Networks are actively reconsidering their ownership stakes, according to recent regulatory filings, though the next steps remain unclear.A And, according to information from the companies, talks appear early stage.A Stirring speculation is a ...

If free ad-supported music services aren't going to make it financially, what about paid subscription services? Rhapsody and RealNetworks continue to soldier along, but RealNetworks is apparently looking for investors to take some portion of the Rhapsody business off its hands, and we haven't heard much about Napster since Best Buy, which acquired ...

Egypt: 1 hour, 56 minutes ago Interact Egypt, jointly with RealNetworks, proudly announces the launch event of Helix v13 digital media platform taking place on December 9th in Cairo, Egypt.