Three decades since breaking the music biz, erstwhile file-sharing site Napster has been sold to Infinite Reality for $207M The XR company is just the latest tech biz to shell out for the platform in ...

The once-popular music service Napster has revived itself as a Web3 company, and is preparing to launch a $NAPSTER token on the Algorand blockchain network to appeal ...

In brief: Ownership of Napster is changing hands once again. The company, which started life as a peer-to-peer file sharing service more than 25 years ago, is being purchased by Infinite Reality for ...

Napster was a truly revolutionary company when it arrived in the late 1990s. The peer-to-peer file-sharing network allowed users to easily download free music, but it soon led to a bitter fight with ...

Napster, the original music disruptor and long-running independent music streaming service, has acquired Web3 music startup Mint Songs. Mint Songs runs a non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace that ...

The early 2000s were a very different time. Spotify, Facebook, and social media as a whole were distant dreams. The Internet was in its early stages, and the masses were just starting to jump on the ...

A small group of programmers plans to breathe new life into the Napster-spawned OpenNap protocol that was designed to help dejected music fans share files using similar technology after the official ...

Bertelsmann AG has agreed to pay music publishers $130 million to settle a copyright infringement case brought on by the German media giant's deal with the Napster P2P company. By Brooks Boliek, The ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Don’t call it a comeback, because they’ve been around the whole time. That’s according to Napster CEO Jon Vlassopulos, who has announced that the “original music disruptor” ...

Napster may be long dead, but the name and the "kitty" logo of the pioneer online music-swapping program could return to cyberspace before the year is out. Santa Clara-based Roxio Inc., which owns the ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Napster Music Inc., the music streaming service, today announced the publication of its Litepaper V1 which outlines its plans to apply Web3 technology to its existing business ...

The director of a new film about Silk Road says he found striking parallels between the issues surrounding the online drug bazaar and Napster, the original music-sharing service. Richard Nieva was a ...