Efforts by leading record labels to fill the void they created by shutting down Napster led several to develop their own subscription online music service. Since the once popular music -swapping service, Napster, shut down as a result of the lawsuit brought against it by the major recording companies, the...
LOS ANGELES -- In another example of how the Internet is spurring the CD-R music business, Pressplay, an on-line joint venture between Sony Corp. and Vivendi Universal, plans to roll out its long-awaited subscription service with a limited launch as LOS ANGELES -- In another...
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Garza shut down nemesis Wakefield, Red Sox 3-1 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Matt Garza pitched seven strong innings in his first outing since throwing a one-hitter, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat Boston and nemesis Tim Wakefield 3-1 on Tuesday night. ...
Garza shut down nemesis Wakefield, Red Sox 3-1 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Matt Garza pitched seven strong innings in his first outing since throwing a one-hitter, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat Boston and nemesis Tim Wakefield 3-1 on Tuesday night. ...
LOS ANGELES -- Twistbox Entertainment, Inc. (www.twistbox.com), a leading global producer and publisher of mobile entertainment, has filled two key executive positions with the appointments of Russell J. Burke as Chief Financial Officer and Patrick Dodd as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing. Mr. Burke joins...
HOLLYWOOD -- Digital music company MusicNet, the only surviving musicstore from the preiTunes era, has been acquired by private equity firm Baker Capital. Financial details weren't disclosed. MusicNet doesn't operate its own iTunes-like store, but powers similar...
SAN JOSE -- Call it the kitty's third life. Roxio Inc. bought the Napster brand name and feline logo at a bankruptcy auction two years ago and with the acquisition of another music service, pressplay, relaunched the once renegade file-swapping pioneer as a legal music service...
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Here's a special reason to be happy that Napster, the notorious outlaw file-sharing system that took a long, court-ordered hiatus, has returned as a major-label-backed enterprise offering single-track downloads for 99 cents. The new--some might say neutered--Napster makes it that much easier for music lovers everywhere to never, ever again...
By Dawn C. Chmielewski, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 24--The Justice Department has ended its two-year investigation into the major record labels' Internet services, announcing Tuesday that it found no evidence they squashed competition in...
WASHINGTON, D.C. R. Hewitt Pate, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Departments Antitrust Division, issued the following statement today after the Department announced the closing of its investigation into the major record labels pressplay and MusicNet joint ventures: The Divisions substantial investigation of pressplay and MusicNet has...
DVD News11-11-2003Larry Kenswil Resigns from Roxio Board of DirectorsDVD NEWS-11 November 2003-Larry Kenswil Resigns from Roxio Board of Directors C1999-2003 DVD News. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Roxio, Inc., The Digital Media Company, announced that Larry Kenswil resigned from its board of directors. Mr....
By Mike Freeman, The San Diego Union-Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 7--EMusic, an online music service in San Diego, has been sold to Dimensional Associates, a New York private equity arm of JDS Capital Management, for an undisclosed price. ...
By Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 6--REBORN NAPSTER FACES STRONG COMPETITION: Napster 2.0, the legitimate reincarnation of the outlaw music service shut down by the recording industry two years ago, tries to do so many...
Conventional wisdom says that pay-for-play Internet music services will never be able to compete with the sense of community and multiple download source capabilities of free--though currently illegal--peer-to-peer networks like Kazaa and Limewire. So when former McAfee CEO Srivats Sampath decided to get...
LOS ANGELES -- Nearly a year after software maker Roxio Inc. scooped up the Napster brand from the ashes of the pioneer file- swapping service, a revamped online music store bearing the familiar brand name debuted last week in limited release. The company shelved its former online...
Business Editors ADVISORY... --BUSINESS WIRE TOPIC: Roxio Inc., the Santa Clara-based company that paid an estimated $5 million for the rights to the Napster name, launched Napster 2.0 Thursday, according to an article by The Associated Press. The new pay version Internet music store...
To say that Roxio's been busy lately would be an understatement. The company's acquisitions of Napster and Pressplay sent clear signals to both the software and music industry that Roxio plans to become a major player in the still-nascent-after-all-these-years pay-for-play music downloading ...