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The Day Ahead: Amid slide, CDNow reprices its stock options

CDNow is quite busy these days explaining how the company has enough cash... Read more

31 March, 2000 by Larry Dignan

The music may be over for CDNow

Online music retailer CDNow's independent public accountant, Arthur Andersen has expressed "substantial doubt" about the... Read more

29 March, 2000 by ZDNet

The Day Ahead: Online music earnings nothing to dance about

...earnings from two key Internet music players won't have investors dancing. CDNow missed bottom line expectations and Liquid Audio missed top line expectations. Granted... Read more

4 February, 2000 by Larry Dignan

Patent ruling creates ripples on Net

...video over the Internet. In 1998, the company sued the Internet site CDNow, owned by media titan Bertelsmann, for infringement of patents filed in the... Read more

4 November, 2003 by Stefanie Olsen

Net music sales under threat in patent case

...year-old company has been in court since 1998, suing Bertelsmann division CDNow for violating patents filed in the late 1980s. This week's preliminary... Read more

15 February, 2002 by John Borland

Napster deal comes with a price tag

...for copyright infringement. The "new Napster" may also include a link to CDNow and could be used to swap other types of content, including video... Read more

1 November, 2000 by Ben Charny

The Day Ahead: 'Band-Aid financing' won't work for some dot-coms

...s still small change compared to companies like Webvan and Home Grocer. CDNow is attracting cash too. Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helu has bought a... Read more

17 May, 2000 by Larry Dignan

The Day Ahead: Drkoop.com goes critical

...just the beginning. There are so many strapped dot-coms such as CDNow with expensive portal deals and no cash. Beyond.com recently terminated a... Read more

26 April, 2000 by Larry Dignan

The Day Ahead: Yahoo! dominates

The Web is being divided by the market capitalisation haves and have-nots. Yahoo!'s first quarter shows it is definitely in the "have" category Read more

6 April, 2000 by Larry Dignan

The Day Ahead: Amid market volatility, common sense returns

...Solectron will be around in five years. Can you say that about CDNow, eToys and other e-tailers? 2. Don't borrow money to buy... Read more

5 April, 2000 by Larry Dignan

The Day Ahead: Expedia's independence pays, Musicmaker's swan song

Expedia first quarter as a public company shows the benefits of being independent Read more

1 February, 2000 by Larry Dignan

Winners and losers after AOL Time Warner deal

America Online's acquisition of Time Warner made a big splash Monday. Now brace yourselves for the ripple effect. Here are the winners and losers Read more

11 January, 2000 by Larry Dignan

Consumers snub smaller music sites

...that respondents had visited for buying music were Amazon.com (44 percent), CDNow (39 percent) and Barnesandnoble.com (27 percent). Only 16 percent of those... Read more

11 November, 1999 by Justin Pearse

Data protection - consumer safeguard or e-commerce gag?

The new EU ruling on data protection, due to come into force in the UK early next year, aims to protect the consumer. But large corporations -- particularly those involved in e-commerce -- may end up paying the price. Read more

30 October, 1998 by Jane Wakefield

UK Tech Week: E-commerce tidal wave is coming

Speaking at the UK Technology Week exhibition yesterday, Phil Wade, Marketing Director for UK ISP Planet Online,... Read more

8 October, 1998 by Jane Wakefield

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