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Earthnoise.com of Israel Signs Contract with US Company RealNetworks
By Ella Jacoby-Bashan

Israeli start-up Earthnoise.com, which operates a virtual community site for video material, has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with RealNetworks of the US for the provision of editing and distribution solutions for Internet audio/video material.

The agreement will lead to the integration of the technology developed by Earthnoise.com in RealCreator, an application for creating content for the US company's RealPlayer software, used for viewing video over the Internet. Nasdaq-listed RealNetworks, and traded at a company value of $5 billion, transmits Internet audio/video broadcasts to over 100 million subscribers worldwide. The company is regarded as the largest Internet company in the audio/video field. Estimates say the company controls some 85% of the world's Internet music media.

The world's largest ISP, AOL, participated in the $7.6 million financing round Earthnoise.com recently held.

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