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RealNetworks buys Xing

Posted by Hemos on from the time-to-rock-and-roll dept.

Keith Russell writes "Caught this on ZDNet. RealNetworks is buying the Xing Corp. for ~$75M in stock. Looks like Real and IBM are gearing up for a fight with Microsoft over digital audio. " True-combine this with the IBM partnership and Microsoft's announcements about digital vidoe-things are about to get messy.

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  1. IBM bad at consumer products by Cassius · · Score: 3

    With Real in the partnership, maybe they have a chance, but IBM has never been very good at marketing to consumers. In fact, they suck at it.

    Microsoft also has a *bit* of an advantage in the consumer OS market, which is the platform all this stuff depends on.