Napster

Earnings: Napster Slims Losses In Q4; Revs Gain 15 Percent; DRM-Free Downloads By June - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 06 Feb 2008 02:19 PM PST

Napster (NSDQ: NAPS) narrowed its net loss to $2.8 million ($0.06/share) in Q4, compared to a net loss of $9.5 million ($0.22 /share) last year. Revenues continued to grow, reaching…

Industry Moves: Napster CFO Leaving For ‘Personal Reasons’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 10 Dec 2007 09:57 PM PST

Napster (NSDQ: NAPS) announced Monday that VP and CFO Nand Gangwani has resigned effective Dec. 31, citing personal reasons. He has been commuting from his Bay Area home to LA…

Update: Earnings: Napster Revenues Increase 24 Percent in Q2; Subscribers Up 44 Percent; 10-Q - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 01 Nov 2007 01:30 PM PST

Music subscription service Napster booked revenues of $31.6 million in its Q2, up 24 percent from last year’s $25.4 million. Net income was 43 percent narrower, as it lost $5…

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Updated: Music Roundup: Apple Cuts DRM-free Prices; Napster’s Web-based Platform; Radiohead Piracy - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 16 Oct 2007 09:50 PM PST

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to Lower Price On DRM-free Tracks; Indie Labels Included: Report: Now that iTunes has competition with last month’s launch of Amazon’s (NSDQ: AMZN) DRM-free MP3 download store,…

Earnings: Napster Grows Q1 Net Loss As Revenues Rise - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 16 May 2007 02:26 PM PST

Napster (Nasdaq: NAPS) saw its Q1 net loss double to $8.5 million from its net loss of $4.4 million last year, while revenue was up 9 percent to $29.1 million…

Circuit City And Napster Launching Digital Music Store - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 20 Apr 2007 06:40 AM PST

Troubled Circuit City is getting back into selling online music by teaming up with Napster on a new online MP3 service that will give consumers access to songs via monthly…

Napster Scales Back UK Office; Centralizes Europe in Frankfurt - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 26 Feb 2007 12:44 PM PST

So reports the Guardian: Napster is significantly scaling back its UK operation in a move that will see its UK VP and GM, Leanne Sharman, a former marketer at Vivendi’s…

Earnings: Napster Revenues Up 21 Percent; Net Loss Nearly Cut In Half - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 08 Feb 2007 05:02 PM PST

Napster revenues hit a record $28.4 million for the quarter ending Dec. 31, up 21 percent from $23.5 million in the same quarter last year. The company carved away at…

Industry Moves: Ross Levinsohn Joins Napster Board - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 08 Feb 2007 02:57 PM PST

Still no sure sense of what Ross Levinsohn will do with all of his post-FIM spare time but the former News Corp. exec has agreed to serve on Napster’s board…

Big Brands Fail On Music Subscription Services - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Sun 28 Jan 2007 03:19 PM PST

Online music subscription services should be left to small startups focused on the space, or so says this article from Reuters. It cites the demise of AOL Music Now and…

Napster Has One-Year Ad Agreement, Some Exclusive Rights With AOL As Part Of Music Now Deal - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 16 Jan 2007 07:23 AM PST

Napster spells out some of the details of its deal to acquire AOL’s 350,000 or so Music Now subscribers via a brief SEC filing. There are actually two tethered agreements:…

Virgin Digital Closes Music Service; Pushing Napster; Naps Numbers Exceed - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 04 Jan 2007 01:18 PM PST

This was a non-starter from the start: Virgin Digital, the digital music service in U.S. from Virgin Group, has closed down after no traction and a rash of management defections…

Defunct Online VOD Company Intertainer Sues Apple, Google And Napster Over Patent - 4 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 02 Jan 2007 09:13 PM PST

Those of us who covered digital media and entertainment way back are very familiar with Intertainer, the high-profile movie download company that fizzled along with so many other companies too…