Valleywag (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
After Valleywag reported that Napster creator Shawn Fanning may have found a new love, he issued a snappy response on Facebook. Points to Fanning for his innovative use of social-networking... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Valleywag (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
Serial entrepreneur Shawn Fanning, probably best known as the founder of early file sharing site Napster, recently changed his relationship status on Facebook from "single" to "in a relationship with... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Money Making and Blogging Tips (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
by: Charles Ivan Palma Napster is online file-sharing site created by Shawn Fanning while he was attending Northeastern University in Boston. And Best Buy Co., Inc. is a Fortune 100 company and the largest specialty retailer of consumer electronics in the United States and Canada, accounting for 21% of the market. Napster official website is widely visited by internet users from United...
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
... and understand blogging better. He regularly invests in game companies, including Rupture, the Shawn Fanning start-up that was bought by Electronic Arts. His PR firm, which changed its name from Kohnke Communications to TriplePoint in January, has been around for a long time and represents companies such as Electronic Arts, Telltale Games and Empire Interactive. The firm basically...
SiliconRepublic.com (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
The US electronics giant Best Buy is to pay US$121m to acquire Napster, the company started in 1998 by 18-year-old Shawn Fanning, and which sounded the death knell for the once-lucrative music industry.
Techdirt (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
Napster, which now has almost nothing other than its brand to connect it to the revolutionary music sharing service Shawn Fanning launched nearly a decade ago, is about to undergo its latest shift, as Best Buy has bought what remains of Napster for $127 million , representing a hefty premium on the already pretty weak valuation of the company. Ever since Roxio bought Napster -- and renamed...
Lefsetz Letter (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
Bob, I gotta respond. I love Sarah because she is DISRUPTIVE. Just like Napster, she has thrown the media, the Dems, Obama, MSNBC, for a fucking loop. Just like Napster, they don' know whether to shit or go blind. Its so much fun to watch. Yes, she a little light, but so what. Shawn Fanning [...]
