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Salon.com October 31, 2000 Damien Cave & Janelle Brown |
Napster finally cuts a deal It's either a sellout or a savvy survival move: The beleaguered music trading service is getting into bed with Bertelsmann.... |
Salon.com November 2, 2000 Eric Boehlert |
In defense of (Napster) collusion Music consumers will benefit if Bertelsmann can convince the major record labels to conspire. |
BusinessWeek August 2, 2004 Ewing & Lowry |
Napster and Bertelsmann: It Seemed Like A Good Idea... A bad deal is still giving the German media conglomerate BMG nightmares. |
Home Theater August 11, 2008 |
Sony BMG Is Just Sony Now Sony is buying Bertelsmann's 50 percent stake in the company, giving it total control of what will now become known as Sony Music Entertainment. |
PC World February 16, 2001 Cameron Crouch |
Will Subscription Service Kill Napster? After its courtroom loss, Napster announces a membership service that limits sharing. |
PC World February 20, 2001 Martyn Williams |
Napster Apparently Angling to Settle Embattled music-sharing site, preparing to change its ways, offers $1 billion to record companies... |
BusinessWeek December 1, 2003 |
Germany: Dispensing Bertelsmann's Bounty The Bertelsmann Foundation, Germany's largest company-financed nonprofit. The combined power of company and foundation is impossible to ignore. |
BusinessWeek February 9, 2004 Jack Ewing |
Reckoning At Bertelsmann Now CEO Gunter Thielen has to show that he can do more than just lop heads |
BusinessWeek October 31, 2005 William Boston |
Arvato Is Printing Money The German media behemoth Bertelsmann has an unsung powerhouse in this media-services business. |
Salon.com July 27, 2000 Scott Rosenberg |
Why the music industry has nothing to celebrate Napster's shutdown will only cause a thousand alternatives to bloom. |
BusinessWeek May 14, 2007 Jack Ewing |
Where The Book Business Is Humming Bertelsmann is making a bundle off Old Media in former Soviet bloc countries. |
The Motley Fool August 7, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Warner's Not Like a Broken Record Warner Music Group's quarterly results topped expectations. |
Salon.com June 6, 2001 Charles C. Mann |
Napster's long haul The legally hounded music-sharing service has struck a deal with the record labels, but the "celestial jukebox" is still a long way off... |
Salon.com May 17, 2002 Janelle Brown |
Napster's wake The company that launched a thousand rips may be dead, but the movement it launched continues to thrive -- and to make a mockery of the music industry's pathetic online offerings. |
Salon.com June 14, 2000 Janelle Brown |
RIAA tries to shut down Napster By moving for an injunction against the file-swapping service, the recording industry shows just how little it gets the Net. |
The Motley Fool October 2, 2007 Alyce Lomax |
Radiohead's Sonic Boom Radiohead will allow its fans to pay whatever they like for its newest album, available on the Web, giving fans the opportunity to cut out the middleman and deal directly with their favorite bands. Is this the future of music? |
Home Theater March 6, 2008 |
Musicians Demand Copyright Cash Little of the millions of dollars in settlements major record labels have collected in copyright-infringement suits has been shared with recording artists. |
Salon.com June 1, 2001 Janelle Brown |
The music revolution will not be digitized The dust is clearing from the online entertainment wars. Who won? The record labels. Who lost? Consumers... |
Salon.com July 20, 2001 Scott Rosenberg |
Revenge of the file-sharing masses! By smashing Napster, the music industry has pushed its customers to seek alternatives that won't be so easy to shut down... |
The Motley Fool October 8, 2007 Alyce Lomax |
The RIAA Wins, but What Does It Lose? The recording industry wins a legal victory in its anti-piracy crusade, but continues to lose customer respect. |
Salon.com February 12, 2001 |
Victory or defeat? Did the record industry's court triumph insure a future full of profits -- or seal its doom? Experts weigh in... |
Salon.com August 7, 2000 Eric Boehlert |
Napster vs. the record stores Is the file-sharing craze bruising retailers? |
The Motley Fool June 14, 2005 Shannon Zimmerman |
Compact Discs: The New 8-Track Major labels meet the future -- reluctantly. Online music stores represent the future of the music biz as evidenced by newly public Warner Music Group's report of $4 million in net income thanks, in part, to $31 million in digital music revenue that offset a similar-sized decline in CD sales. |
Salon.com July 28, 2000 Salon Technology Staff |
Napster wins last-minute reprieve A federal appeals court granted Napster a new lease on life Friday afternoon, only hours before a court-ordered deadline would have required the service to shut down. |
Salon.com February 21, 2001 Janelle Brown |
Napster: Let's make a deal! Is the music-trading service increasingly desperate, or crazy like a fox? |
The Motley Fool April 2, 2008 Alyce Lomax |
A Big Mistake at Sony BMG A small French company has alleged that Sony BMG pirated its software. |
Salon.com February 12, 2001 |
Napster: Hanging by a thread A federal appeals court rules against the file-trading service on nearly every point of law, but holds off enforcing the injunction against it -- for now... |
PC World October 3, 2001 Scarlet Pruitt |
File-Sharing Services Sued RIAA and the MPAA file suit to stop file-sharing services like KaZaA and Morpheus that popped up on the Internet after Napster's demise... |
Salon.com August 1, 2000 Eric Boehlert |
The great MP3 love fest Has the press given Napster a free ride? |
PC Magazine November 11, 2003 Cade Metz |
Let the Music Play We review all the tools you need to satisfy your digital music urges. |
Salon.com March 6, 2001 Damien Cave |
Napster gets court's marching orders Service must start blocking music files pronto, judge rules, but record companies must provide lists of copyrighted songs... |
eCFO April 2001 John Goff |
Freebie and the Bund Last year, Bertelsmann, Ford, Delta, and Intel launched free-PCs-for-employees programs. This year, it seems that no good deed goes untaxed: Employees might be left on the hook... |
Information Today July 4, 2013 |
Penguin Random House Merger Finalized The leadership team for the new company Penguin Random House was announced this week as the merger between parent companies Bertelsmann, which owns 53% of the company, and Pearson, which owns 47%, was finalized. |
Wired October 2000 John Heilemann |
David Boies: The Wired Interview Wired and Boies talked for several hours about the lawyer's defense strategy for the Napster case, the future of intellectual property and free speech in a networked world, and how it feels for this David to be taking on yet another Goliath... |
Reason October 2000 Jesse Walker |
Music for Nothing Why Napster isn't the end of the world. Or even the music industry... |
Macworld August 2000 Christopher Breen |
Steal This Song Will Napster Change The Way we Buy--or--Don't Buy Music Forever? |
InternetNews April 13, 2004 Colin C. Haley |
Report: SEC to Charge TW Over AOL Ad Deal A probe over the ISP's accounting for $400 million in questionable ad revenue will reportedly culminate in a formal charge for AOL parent Time Warner this summer. |
Salon.com June 19, 2000 Eric Boehlert |
Napster Sound Bite: Feelin' groovy A peek inside the contentious company's shockingly mellow boardroom playlist, and other hits from the RIAA's latest court filing. |
Information Today December 17, 2013 |
Bertelsmann Launches Social Media Hub Bertelsmann introduced its social cloud website to the public. The site combines and displays content from the international media company's social media channels in one place. |
The Motley Fool November 3, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Napster for Almost Nothing The digital music specialist posts a narrower loss than expected, but it's still a loss. If the company can wind its way toward becoming a fee cash flow entity, the stock might look good. |
Information Today November 8, 2012 Nancy K. Herther |
Random House and Penguin Merge to Meet the Digital Imperative "The merger will create the largest consumer book publisher in the world," noted The New York Times, "with a global market share of more than 25 percent and a book list that includes contemporary best-sellers. |
Salon.com July 7, 2000 Eric Boehlert |
Napster death match, Round 3 Fending off a life-threatening court injunction, file-swapping phenom Napster insists it has done nothing wrong. |
Wired February 2003 Charles C. Mann |
The Year The Music Dies Record labels are under attack from all sides -- file sharers and performers, even equipment manufacturers and good old-fashioned customers -- and it's killing them. A moment of silence, please. |
Salon.com November 13, 2000 Janelle Brown |
The jukebox manifesto Record companies should stop worrying about security and start giving people what they really want: Music, anywhere, anytime... |
The Motley Fool May 17, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Napster on the B-Side Napster is growing as it shrinks. The music subscription service posted respectable fiscal fourth-quarter results, as long as you know where to look. |
InternetNews July 6, 2005 Clint Boulton |
Dell, Napster Hit Legit Music Trail Napster has joined forces with Dell to provide music files to colleges and universities. Dell will provide players and the hardware to cache the content that Napster is selling. |
The Motley Fool April 3, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Napster's Growth Spurt Napster keeps migrating users to its on demand music subscription service. Despite the heady additions, Napster is going to be in the red for some time. Analysts don't expect a profit out of Napster until fiscal 2009 at the earliest. |
Salon.com July 27, 2000 Damien Cave & Kaitlin Quistgaard |
Court to Napster: You're going down The judge vents her wrath on the Napster "monster" and closes the music-swapping service -- for now. |
The Motley Fool February 12, 2007 Alyce Lomax |
Time to Tune Into Napster? The music subscription service reported heartening progress in the third quarter, but questions remain for investors. |
Salon.com February 9, 2001 Janelle Brown |
The Napster parasites Online marketers are snooping around in your hard drive, taking notes on every MP3 file you download... |