Best Buy will have some music to offer alongside all that portable gadgetry soon. The company announced this morning the acquisition of Napster for $121 million in cash.
Napster Founder’s Snocap Melts
Shawn Fanning’s post-Napster endeavor has fared poorly, with layoffs and "For Sale" signs the order of the day.
Downloaders Prefer Napster And iTunes
Ipsos Tempo Digital Music Brandscape study released today indicates that Apple’s iTunes continues to cement its position as the primary fee-based digital music destination, while a number of other services are trying to grow their consumer base and establish points of differentiation.
For many brands awareness was consistent in 2006. For American downloaders aged 12 and older, iTunes saw an increase in both unaided and aided awareness over 2005, rising from 57 percent to 66 percent for total awareness.
Napster To Take Over AOL Music Now
AOL and Napster announced Friday that Napster will become the exclusive music subscription provider for AOL Music. The two companies will partner to migrate approximately 350,000 paid subscribers of the Music Now service to Napster’s digital music subscription service.
Napster Hounded For Pounds In UK
One of the most recognizable names in online music sales has signed a “digital royalties deal.”
Napster Contemplates Sale
Napster’s looking for a friend, or a sugar daddy, whichever one makes a better offer. The controversial and troubled music download service announced the company was seeking partnerships, or a potential sale.
Napster Let Loose
Napster is free again, for five songs only. Actually, it’s 2 million songs, five times each. That’s 10 million songs right? No, it’s not. And it’s only kind of free. Confused yet?
Google Buying Napster Rumor Shot Down
Lots of people have been downloading the chatter about Google possibly buying the Napster music service, but Google said it’s not happening.
New Napster Signs 4th Music Deal
Snocap, the digital media company founded by former Napster pioneer Shawn Fanning inked a deal with Warner Music Group Corp. one of the world’s largest record companies, to allow the authorized distribution of WMG’s music across Snocap-enabled retail services. The deal with Warner means that snocap has now allied with all four of the world’s largest record companies, including EMI Plc., Sony BMG, and Universal Music.
Napster Nails Hurricane Relief
I have an iPod, so I get my online music primarily from Apple’s iTunes store. My wife has a Samsung digital media player, so she uses Napster.