Best Buy Acquires Napster For $121 Million

Best Buy has acquired Napster for $121 million in cash. The announcement provides Best Buy with a digital music store, and is part of their online expansion strategy. How they will leverage the digital retail component with their physical stores remains to be seen, but the two working in concert may provide additional revenue potential. “We can foresee Napster acting as a platform for accelerating our growth in the emerging...

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Slacker Releases G2 – Next Generation Portable Player

Slacker has announced their new Slacker G2 Personal Radio Player, the next generation of their portable Personal Radio player. Our editor-in-chief has been using the new G2 player for the past week, and has come away impressed. “If they would have released the G2 instead of that first generation brick, then the perception of the company would be completely different.” Slacker’s biggest mission now is clear the stink...

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