RealNetworks acquired substantially all of the assets of Trymedia, a pioneer in Casual Games syndication, from Santa Clara, Calif.-based Macrovision. The acquisition was part of Real's strategy to build reach through syndicated distribution partnerships, and followed its acquisition of New York-based Game Trust in 2007 and a strategic partnership with Amsterdam-based The Spill Group announced earlier in 2008. With more than 250 partners, including AOL, Yahoo!, Telstra and T-Online, Trymedia provided innovative syndication and commerce solutions that enabled portals, online retailers and game developers to securely distribute PC games through physical and digital channels and maximize revenue throughout a game's lifetime. RealGames is focused on increasing reach not only to expand its circle of fans, but also to attract the very best game developers to its publishing group and to build its base of advertisers. View Press Release
RealNetworks acquired Game Trust, a casual game infrastructure company based in New York. At the time of the acquisition, Real planned to add Game Trust's innovative community and commerce capabilities to the technology platform currently offered to Real's games syndication partners. Game Trust's Game Frame platform was the industry-leading software platform for community, affinity, and commerce models in online casual games. View Press Release
RealNetworks acquired Sao Paulo, Brazil-based Atrativa, the most visited casual games site in South America for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2001, Atrativa was Brazil's most widespread casual games distributor to the largest localized portals in South America.
RealNetworks acquired all of the outstanding securities of Exomi in exchange for $11.2 million in cash payments, including $468,000 in direct acquisition-related costs consisting primarily of professional fees. Exomi is located in Helsinki, Finland, and is a provider of short message service (SMS) messaging and gateway products and services with customers primarily in Europe and Latin America. The Company believed that combining Exomi's assets and network with the Company's products and services would enhance its presence in the European and Latin American markets.
RealNetworks acquired 100% of Sony NetServices, a joint venture between Sony DADC and Sony Europe. Sony NetServices provided mobile operators with digital music services in eight European countries. This acquisition was part of RealNetworks' strategy to extend its global leadership in digital entertainment delivery on the mobile platform, and followed RealNetworks' recent acquisition of mobile entertainment leader WiderThan. Acquiring Sony NetServices substantially strengthened RealNetworks' market position in Europe, and added new technological capabilities that enhanced Real's capacity to offer mobile operators access to its growing portfolio of media solutions, including music on demand (MOD), video on demand (VOD), ringback tones (RBT), games and other solutions. View Press Release
RealNetworks acquired approximately 99% of Seoul, Korea-based WiderThan Co., Ltd., a leading global provider of integrated mobile entertainment solutions for wireless carriers, in a transaction valued at approximately $350 million. Founded in June 2000 to drive innovation in partnership with SK Telecom, the leading carrier in the advanced Korean wireless market, WiderThan now exports entertainment applications worldwide in addition to continuing to be a strong strategic partner of SK Telecom. WiderThan is a leading provider of ringback tones, music-on-demand and other mobile entertainment services to more than 50 wireless carriers in more than 25 countries including leading carriers such as SK Telecom in South Korea, Verizon Wireless in the U.S., and Bharti Airtel in India. View Press Release
RealNetworks acquired Zylom® Media Group BV, a premier distributor, developer and publisher of high-quality PC-based casual games throughout Europe, in a transaction valued at up to $21 million. Based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands and founded in 2001, Zylom has been delivering exceptional casual games throughout Europe and was recently recognized as The Best Fun and Games website in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Netherlands by www.websiteoftheyear.co.uk. The company's library includes 70 fully localized games in 7 languages including the popular Mirror Magic™ and Hotel Solitaire™ as well as hit titles from leading game developers including PopCap's Bejeweled™ and Iwin's JewelQuest™. View Press Release
RealNetworks acquired Helsinki-based Mr.Goodliving™ Ltd, an innovative developer and publisher of high-quality mobile games throughout Europe. Based in Helsinki, Finland and founded in 1999, Mr.Goodliving has created exceptional, high-quality casual mobile games available throughout Europe. The company's library of popular games includes the Playman Sports™ series and the European-distribution rights for the mobile edition of Trivial Pursuit™. Mr.Goodliving's games are available today through more than 100 distributors and carriers including, Vodafone Global Content Services, MMO2 Group, Telefonica, H3G, T-Mobile International, and Orange Group. In addition to its great games, Mr.Goodliving has developed EMERGE™, a proprietary development platform which enables rapid and scalable publishing of games to more than 200 handsets in 20 languages. The acquisition establishes Real in the mobile games market, provides new market opportunities for its existing library of game titles, and will expand the reach of Mr.Goodliving's titles into the US and Asia. Real acquired Mr.Goodliving Ltd for approximately $15 million in cash. The transaction closed on Friday May 6, 2005. View Press Release
RealNertworks acquired Seattle-based GameHouse®, Inc. a top developer, publisher and distributor of downloadable PC games, in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $35.6 million. Founded in 1998, GameHouse has consistently published many of the top casual games on the Internet - including Super Collapse® II, Puzzle Inlay, and TextTwist®. GameHouse distributes these games through its own direct-to-consumer web site (www.gamehouse.com), through third party affiliates, and through distributors that include Comcast, Earthlink, Pogo.com, MSN, RealArcade, Shockwave, Sony, and Yahoo! In 2003, GameHouse generated over $10 million in revenue and $5.5 million of net income. RealNetworks acquired GameHouse for approximately $14.6 million in cash and approximately 3.3 million shares of RealNetworks common stock. Valued as of the close on January 23rd these shares have a value of approximately $21 million. View Press Release
RealNetworks completed it acquisition of Listen.com in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $36 million. The stock consideration is approximately 4.1 million shares of RealNetworks common stock. Since 1998, Listen.com has been a pioneer in the online music industry, first building the largest and most comprehensive directory for legally available music on the web and subsequently introducing the RHAPSODY digital music subscription service. RHAPSODY combines unlimited, on-demand access to the world's largest library of digital music, CD-quality Internet radio, and the ability to mix and burn custom CDs, plus extensive music information and editorial recommendations. View Press Release
RealNetworks acquired privately-held Netzip, Inc., a leading developer and provider of Internet download management and utility software. Netzip has been a pioneer and leader in developing consumer-friendly technology to improve the reliability of downloading media and software files over the Internet. RealNetworks has acquired Netzip, Inc. in exchange for approximately 1.7 million shares of RealNetworks stock. The acquisition was accounted for as a purchase transaction.
RealNetworks acquired privately-held Xing Technology Corporation, the leading developer and provider of MP3 software. Xing Technology Corporation has been a leading provider of standards-based digital audio and video compression technology for nearly a decade. Xing has been a leader in the multimedia revolution since 1990 by introducing a numerous innovative technologies and products to the marketplace, including the first software JPEG, the first software MPEG audio/video encoders and decoders, MP3 applications and software-based DVD playback. RealNetworks acquired Xing in exchange for common stock in RealNetworks with a maximum value of $75 million. The acquisition, which was accounted for as a pooling of interests was completed on September xx, 1999.
RealNetworks acquired Vivo Software, Inc., the leader in developing streaming video creation tools distinguished by their ease-of-use and high production quality across multiple bit rates that offer support for both HTTP and specialized streaming media servers. The VivoActive family of tools enable Web developers to create and deliver streaming digital media, including video and audio, over corporate Intranets and the World Wide Web. The acquisition was accounted for as a purchase transaction. All outstanding shares of Vivo were exchanged for 1.1 million new RealNetworks shares, which were valued at $17.1 million on the date of announcement (3/25/98).
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