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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: 32.81 |
| Kotaku | Relevance: 18.97 |
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| Joystiq | Relevance: 16.09 |
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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E3: EA previews new social networking model in Nucleus/Rupture  Filed under: Culture, PC, E3, MMOJust a few months after Electronic Arts' purchase of the Rupture social networking site, it looks like file-sharing legend Shawn Fanning now has his moment in the sun. Fanning appeared during EA's E3 press conf [..] |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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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 [..]
