 | Kotaku |  Relevance: 21.62 |
| EA Officially Snags "Napster"-Founded Social Net [EA Social Net Official] Reports that Electronic Arts was set to acquire Sean "Napster" Fanning's latest venture, a social network, are now official. EA announced last night that it acquired Napster's ThreeSF, owners of a social network called Rupture.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but earlier reports pe [..] |
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| Kotaku | Relevance: 16.69 |
| Joystiq | Relevance: 13.28 |
EA purchases Napster creator's social networking site  Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business
Shawn Fanning has been doing more than simply riding high on the Napster phenomenon and appearing in Volkswagon commercials. In 2006, he created a [..] |
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| Silicon Alley Insider | Relevance: 11.45 |
| Boy Genius Report | Relevance: 10.90 |
Best Buy to Lay out $121mm for Napster  Before you ask, yes Napster does indeed still exist. What’s more, with a current subscriber base of around 700,000 it’s still a pretty respectable offering. Napster’s current incarnation offers three main plans for accessing its library of over six million songs; the first is an iTunes-like music download service that provides a la carte tracks [...]
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| Kotaku | Relevance: 10.25 |
| Raptr - Social Gaming Network Enters Public Beta [Raptr] Sometimes Facebook, Myspace, Bebo, Orkut and OpenSocial just aren't enough. Too much real world stuff, not enough gamerscore bragging. Enter Raptr - a new social network for gamers founded by Dennis 'Thresh' Fong (he had to do something with all tha [..] |
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| Silicon Alley Insider | Relevance: 9.933 |
| Silicon Alley Insider | Relevance: 9.821 |
| Napster Half-Heartedly For Sale, Yet Again Napster has hung out a sale sign. Again. Two problems: It doesn't seem very serious about it, and no one buyers seem interested, either.
Two years ago, the music subscription service announ [..] |
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| Silicon Alley Insider | Relevance: 9.776 |
| Silicon Alley Insider | Relevance: 8.772 |
Napster Founder Shawn Fanning Finally Cashes In  Turns out it's just as hard to make money disrupting the music business as it is making money the old-fashioned way. Napster founder Shawn Fanning never saw much dough out of his first com [..] |
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| Silicon Alley Insider | Relevance: 8.772 |
| Silicon Alley Insider | Relevance: 8.754 |
| Sold! Best Buy Swallows Napster For $121 Million (BBY) Looks like Chris Gorog really was serious about selling off perenially troubled Napster (NAPS), after all. He's selling the company to Best Buy (BBY) for $121 million. That's $2.65 per share, which works out to be [..] |
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| Nerdblog.Net | Relevance: 8.414 |
| Correction: Napster story
(AP) AP - In a May 19 story about Napster, The Associated Press mischaracterized music downloads sold by a competitor, the iTunes Music Store. The retailer owned by Apple Inc. sells downloads in the AAC file format, not the MP3 format. ITunes' tracks without copy protection are the same price as — not more expensive than [...] [..] |
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| ProBlogger Blog Tips | Relevance: 7.810 |
How to Target the Right Social Media Sites  This is a guest post on targeting Social Media Sites is from Steven Snell. Steven writes about social media marketing at Traffikd.
Most bloggers recognize the incredible potential that exists with social media marketing. Many want to maximize the traffic they receive from social media, so they add a Digg button to their posts or sign [...] [..] |
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| ProBlogger Blog Tips | Relevance: 7.712 |
| Which Social Media Sites Would You Use if You Could Only use 3? Here’s a question for the weekend that was submitted to me from Twitter friend philbaumann who asks:
if you were permitted only 3 social sites to work with, which ones would you pick?
So it’s over to you for your comments.
Which would you choose (be it social bookmarking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon or Reddit, or social [...] [..] |
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So Napster is now selling 6 million DRM-free tracks for 99 cents each. What's it like if you try to buy one? Glenn "Coolfer" Peoples visits the Napster store, and doesn't seem likely to [..]
A year ago, Napster (NAPS) shares were worth more than $4. Now they're trading below $1.5, down more than 60%. We can think of several companies where that performance would get you fi [..]
Napster is in a tough spot: Still losing money, unable to get any traction for its core subscription service, hoping against hope that selling DRM-free downloads will somehow give it a l [..]
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, also known as "the rich guy who bitched about Napster" now says that free online music may not be such a bad thing, after all.
Lars and his bandmates once took a lot of flack [..]
