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Best Buy To Snag Napster

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September 15th 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – Best Buy plans to snap up Napster for $121 million in cash, or $2.65 a share (double its $1.36 closing price on Friday; a year ago, it was trading at more than $3 a share). The deal includes $67 million in Napster’s cash and short term investments, making the [...] more...

Metallica Finally Acknowledges Power of Internet

Written on
September 4th 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – The notoriously curmudgeonly low-tech metal band – and the most outspoken leaders in the Napster witch hunt – seems to have finally realized that marketing free music from an upcoming online can help, not hinder the album’s prospects for sales. Metallica’s latest sonic offering, Death Magnetic, (loooove the title!) [...] more...

Napster Switches To MP3 Downloads

Written on
January 7th 2008
Author
Sarah Novotny

Napster announced today that it will start selling MP3 download beginning in Q2 of this year, reports Reuters. Napster has been selling music protected by Microsoft’s DRM technology to prevent illegal downloads. The use of DRMs however, has not proven to be popular with users as only specific players are compatible [...] more...

AOL Picks Napster as Exclusive Music Subscription Service

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January 12th 2007
Author
Sarah Novotny

AOL has announced that pioneering P2P service Napster will now be its exclusive online music subscription service, effectively replacing AOL Music Now. Subscribers to AOL Music Now will not be shunned, though, as the online media giant will convert accounts under the former music service to Napster accounts. That [...] more...

Napster Lures Subscribers with Free, Ad-Supported Music

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May 1st 2006
Author
Sarah Novotny

With increasing pressure wrought by the popularity of competitor iTunes, Napster is now offering limited free, ad-supported access to its library of over two million songs. Napster.com looks to drive listeners to its continuing subscription-based service once they run out of the allotted five free listens to their favorite songs. While [...] more...



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