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Napster is rebranding around cryptocurrencies and NFTs despite massive digital asset sell-off
Napster will enter the digital asset space in its latest rebrand, which includes a native token alo…
Brian Evans
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Napster is back! Here's what happened to 4 other apps that faded into oblivion
You may remember Napster as the vintage music sharing service that made 15-year-old Sean Parker a S…
Samantha Cooney
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You'll Never Believe Which Tech CEO Was Present That Fateful Night When Mark Zuckerberg First Met Sean Parker
Kalanick and Parker may have known each other from their Scour-Napster days. Kalanick's first start…
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The incredible life and career of Sean Parker, who got his start as a teenage hacker before cofounding Napster and becoming a Facebook billionaire
The 40-year-old, whose net worth is estimated to be about $2.7 billion, hasn't slowed a bit: he don…
Avery Hartmans
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Apple has a playbook for killing free music, and it was written by Steve Jobs
It's a move the company made before, when it launched iTunes and the iPod. Napster - which let peop…
Lucy England
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Why The New York Times' lawyers are inspecting OpenAI's code in a secretive room
The New York Times says OpenAI and Microsoft are breaking copyright law. To prove it, they must fir…
Jacob Shamsian
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Lady Gaga's new boyfriend is a tech CEO who went to Harvard with Mark Zuckerberg and now works for Facebook billionaire Sean Parker
The couple has reportedly been dating since at least New Year's Eve, and attended the Super Bowl to…
Avery Hartmans
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Police Officer Will Not Be Charged In Killing Of Napster Executive
The incident involving Olin and Wood happened last December in Calabasas, California. Olin, a key f…
Jim Edwards
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Billionaire Napster founder Sean Parker is hacking cancer with a $250 million institute
Others hacks at the Insitute include sharing research tools between organizations and conducting cl…
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Generative AI needs tools to avoid copyright infringement, Databricks' Naveen Rao says or more companies could meet Napster's fate
Companies testing out generative-AI technology are at risk of copyright-infringement lawsuits. Rao …
Ellen Thomas
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Bitcoin is the 'Napster' of finance - and there'll be an iTunes
"You know the thing that caused the big problem in the financial crisis?" he asks. "It was these de…
Oscar Williams-Grut
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Inside the insane life of Facebook billionaire Sean Parker
From co-founding Napster to becoming the founding President of Facebook at age 24, Sean Parker has …
Eames Yates
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The Secret History Of The First Music Site On The Web
But back then, not enough people were willing to suffer through slow upload and download times to s…
Matt Rosoff
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Bitcoin Is Changing The World
The story of Napster helps to explain the excitement about Bitcoin, a digital currency, that is bas…
The Economist
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Step Inside Napster Cofounder Sean Parker's New $55 Million Mansion
While we couldn't get our hands on any pictures of the renovated house, we were able to put togethe…
Rebecca Borison
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Metallica's manager said there's only one way bands make money - and it isn't from music
Metallica was one of the most high-profile bands to take a stand against online music piracy, and s…
Lianna Brinded
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These dot-com startups look just like some of today's hottest tech companies - here's what happened to them
There are surprising similarities between some of today's hottest tech companies and those dot-com …
Maya Kosoff
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The music labels are still suing the internet companies. That's a warning for the AI industry.
It seemed that digital-piracy lawsuits were a thing of the past. They're not, and that could spell …
Peter Kafka
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Tech billionaire Sean Parker has stepped down from Spotify's board as the company prepares to IPO
Earlier this year, Spotify raised $1 billion (£700 million) in debt, The Wall Street journal report…
Sam Shead
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These dotcom startups look just like some of today's hottest tech companies - and here's what happened to them
There are surprising similarities between some of today's hottest tech companies and those dot-com …