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Forbes
May 9
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Holding fast to a philosophy that puts product and users above all, programmer-developer Justin Frankel used his own love of music and recording to a company that produces tools for others whose passion for audio run as deep as his own.
Having...
Sydney Morning Herald
May 9
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Abu Dhabi International Airport has installed dozens of bizarre-looking "sleeping pods" that allow passengers to nap in privacy.
TechCrunch
May 4
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Buy it in a store, laser scan it at home, upload it to the web, print it anywhere. 3D printing is poised for the mainstream, but what happens when one person's finely hand-crafted designs can be pirated and reproduced by anyone? Will 3D printing...
TechCrunch
Apr 30
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On stage at Disrupt NY 2013 today, serial investor Ron Conway and filmmaker/actor Alex Winter took the stage with CrunchFund's MG Siegler to talk about the documentary Downloaded about the rise and fall of Napster. Ron Conway described being an...
Sydney Morning Herald
Apr 24
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When Apple launched its iTunes music store a decade ago amid the ashes of Napster, the music industry _ reeling from the effects of online piracy _ was anxious to see how the new music service would shake out.
TechCrunch
Apr 18
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Last month, we reported that Crowdtilt, the Y Combinator alum that launched just over a year ago with plans to become "the Kickstarter for any group," had raised $12 million in Series A financing from a group of notable investors, including...
TechCrunch
Apr 17
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Napster co-founder Shawn Fanning and documentarian Alex Winter will be at TechCrunch Disrupt NY next week, joining our truly badass lineup to talk about their upcoming Napster documentary DOWNLOADED. Buy Disrupt tickets here!
TechCrunch
Apr 14
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Anyone who has had a computer and a connection to the Internet in 1999 quickly knew what it felt like to find any song that you wanted, and then listen to it almost immediately. Well, the immediate part wasn’t true, since you had to download the...
Clusterstock
Apr 13
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IN 1999 an 18-year-old called
Shawn Fanning
changed the music industry for ever. He developed a service,
Napster
, that allowed individuals to swap music files with one another, instead of buying pricey compact discs from record labels....
Forbes
Feb 22
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In the past decade, “free” has emerged as the Goliath-slaying scourge of industry. As Chris Anderson wrote about in his book Free: The Future of a Radical Price – and as David Bryce, Jeffrey Dyer and Nile Hatch support in a 2011 Harvard...
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WIKI ANALYSIS| This company has recently been acquired or received a credible acquisition offer. |
Napster, Inc. (NAPS), formerly Roxio, Inc., is a leading provider of digital music. The company was incorporated in August 2000 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Adaptec and was spun off as a separate entity in May 2001. After acquiring Pressplay online music service in May 2003, the company updated its service with value-added features and launched it as a paid service under the Napster brand name. The subscription service enables fans to freely sample the world's largest and most diverse online collection of music and experience the largest number of features. This service allows users to legally play, download, and burn (copy) online digital music legally.
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