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Infinite Reality Acquires Napster for $207 Million to Create a Music Metaverse
26.3.2025
Infinite Reality, an AI and metaverse-focused company, has acquired the iconic music platform Napster for $207 million, with…
Pirating pioneer Napster sells for $207M with plans for music metaverse
26.3.2025
Artificial intelligence startup Infinite Reality has acquired the music-pirating app turned music streaming service Napster in a $207 million deal and plans to add a music-focused metaverse. Infinite Reality said in a March 25 statement that Napster would offer “branded 3D virtual...
Napster's Corpse Sold To Metaverse Company For $200+ Million
25.3.2025
Napster, a once-popular website people used in the late ‘90s to illegally share music online that went bankrupt in 2001, has been sold for $207 million to a 3D technology company with plans to bring the brand into the metaverse. Read more
How to Download a YouTube Video or Channel
4.9.2024
The ability to download media on the internet almost feels like a lost art. When I was in my teens, piracy of mp3s, movies, and just about everything else via torrents and apps like Kazaa, LimeWire, Napster, etc. was in full swing. These days sites use blob URLs and other means to prevent...
Před 25 lety odstartoval Napster. Síť s MP3 přinesla nezastavitelnou pirátskou revoluci
1.6.2024
Prvního června 1999 zemřel Christopher Cockerell, anglický vynálezce, který nejvíce proslul sestrojením prvního vznášedla. Přesně před 25 lety ale odstartoval také „vynález“, který ovlivnil několikanásobně více lidí. Shawn Fanning a Sean Parker toho dne spustili Napster.
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Napster Expands Into Web3 Music Space With Acquisition of Mint Songs
15.2.2023
On Wednesday, Napster, the music streaming service originally launched in 1999, announced that the company has finalized a deal to acquire the Web3 music startup Mint Songs. Napster’s CEO, Jon Vlassopulos, insists that “we are in an unprecedented era of innovation in the digital music...
Napster Revives Its Music Ambitions With Web3 Acquisition of Mint Songs
15.2.2023
The brand first known for peer-to-peer music sharing from 1999-2001 announced their purchase of the music-focused NFT marketplace
Defunct File-Sharing Platform Limewire Plans a Comeback, NFT Marketplace and Token on the Horizon
9.3.2022
The once-popular and now discontinued file-sharing platform Limewire is returning after shutting down in 2010. However, rather than provide access to copyrighted music files and movies, the new Limewire aims to launch a marketplace dedicated to non-fungible token (NFT) technology. Limewire Plans...
Kuverit Launches Multi Trader Marketplace
2.11.2019
To what was considered as the “dot-com bubble” in the year 2000, Blockchain technology has become as sensationalised and disruptive as the internet was in the late 1990s.Even though the technology is still in its infancy stage, individuals and corporate bodies are already leveraging on it to expand...
Billions to Trillions: Crypto Assets and the Inevitability of Digitization
29.6.2019
As with the evolution of music consumption, digitization of securities will have far-reaching effects, writes Ami Ben David of Ownera
Napster Creator’s Blockchain Firm Helium Releases IoT Hotspots
13.6.2019
Helium launched blockchain-based hotspot devices, designed to comprise a decentralized internet network providing IoT connectivity
Napster Founder’s IoT Startup Is Adding Tokens With $15 Million Round Led by USV, Multicoin
12.6.2019
Helium, an internet-of-things startup founded in 2013, is adding crypto tokens to its business model with the backing of two major funders