Drive business Development RealNetworks Company or close game Department

Bob Kimball, chief executive of RealNetworks, said in an interview earlier this year that his main focus in taking over the job was to cut production costs and stop poorly run projects, but to target the company's business development in 2011 years, Bloomberg reported. Kimball said he had set three goals for the company's operations when he first took office: simplifying management, reorganizing business and developing new projects.　　He said he was satisfied with the company's progress in the top two goals, and that the new project was the main direction for RealNetworks next year. According to the game state, Kimball was RealNetworks founder Rob Graze in January this year when Rob Glaser began to provoke the beam, has closed the music department Rhapsody, cut 30 million of dollars in operating costs, cutting 25% of the vice president level personnel.　　It also plans to close its gaming department, GameHouse, as it has begun to turn its attention to mobile and social gaming. Kimball said the company still has plans to abandon game operations, but will also consider the sale, regardless of the implementation of the scheme, for RealNetworks shareholders are very minimalism benefits, but now is not in a hurry to sell, because GameHouse gross margin is still very high,　　It will not be too difficult to make a business adjustment under RealNetworks. To increase revenue, RealNetworks is closely watching the market for social and mobile gaming, as well as user cloud services, such as the company's Unifi this month.　　Unifi supports users to sync photos, music, and other content on a computer, mobile phone platform. In addition, RealNetworks plans to expand the scope of business cooperation with mobile phone operators to sell more services to operators.　　The company has been providing mobile phone ring tone, music, video and other services, and hope that through the carrier channel to promote UNIFI this service. Kimball plans to complete its business restructuring in the first half of 2011 and to launch more new products like Unifi, thinking it would be far from enough to push the company forward by simply streamlining its institutions. (Edit/Not tomato)