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MP3.com shares explode
News MP3.com shares rose from the ashes on Thursday, rallying up 15 5/8, or 95 percent, to 32 in late trading after chief executive Michael Robertson told analysts that the company has little to fear from a pending a lawsuit with the Record Industry...
[March 3, 2000, 10:53]
MP3.com offers pay-for-play music
News MP3.com last week ruled liable in a multibillion-dollar copyright infringement lawsuit -- on Tuesday launched what it called the first online subscription music channel and the future of the music business.
[May 3, 2000, 8:29]
MP3.com backs Morissette and Amos
News Music upstart MP3.Com is sponsoring a summer concert tour featuring Alanis Morissette and Tori Amos, a sign of growing acceptance by the recording industry of Internet audio sales. We've got to seize the opportunity," said Michael Robertson founder...
[April 29, 1999, 6:30]
MP3.com artists to be given a new home
News Shortly after buying the MP3.com domain name and announcing that its sprawling music archive would close, CNET Networks said on Wednesday it will start its own free service for independent musicians online.
[November 27, 2003, 11:50]
MP3.com: Sorry, no free royalties
News A few success stories have emerged on MP3.com's site. As consumers grapple with content filters on Napster that may make it harder to find free tunes on the Internet, thousands of would-be rock stars got their own bad news on Friday when Web...
[March 19, 2001, 8:45]
MP3.com reopens service for free, and for fee
News MP3.com Tuesday relaunched its controversial music-streaming service, My.MP3.com, in two forms -- one paid, the other free -- as the company appears to be emerging from its legal entanglements. The service, which allows people to store music online...
[December 5, 2000, 15:20]
MP3.com under fire from music biz
News On Friday, following the path of two Digital Video Disc lawsuits, the Recording Industry Association of America filed a copyright infringement case against digital music portal MP3.com. The suit calls for a halt to MP3.com's newly launched Instant...
[January 24, 2000, 9:04]
MP3.com assets sold
News Internet media company CNET Networks announced on Friday that it is acquiring the assets of online music distributor MP3.com. CNET Networks said it has signed a definitive agreement with Vivendi Universal Net USA to acquire the assets of MP3.com...
[November 17, 2003, 9:40]
MP3.com faces whopping penalty
News Hefty fines could be levied against MP3.com after a federal judge in New York ruled Friday that the Internet music company's MyMP3.com service violated copyright law. US District Judge Jed Rakoff issued a terse order Friday holding MP3.com "liable...
[May 2, 2000, 9:09]
MP3.com enters dangerous territory
News Music download site MP3.com has launched an updated version of its My.MP3.com service that allows users to store CD collections online. At the same time, MP3.com will gather what could soon be the most comprehensive music archive on the planet.
[January 14, 2000, 6:00]
MP3.com and Tower Records sing the same song
News Online CD buyers will soon get instant gratification under a deal announced Wednesday between music startup MP3.com and retailer Tower Records. By the first week in January, customers who order a CD through TowerRecords.com will be able to...
[December 7, 2000, 9:06]
MP3.com assets sold
Talkback Since 1999, MP3.com has been at the forefront of making sure that unsigned musicians could get the same kind of exposure that major label artists received. As an independent artist, I am very concerned at what effect this will have on unsigned...
[November 17, 2003, 18:11]
MP3.com splits into two
News MP3.com said Friday that it will undergo another metamorphosis, splitting into two entities as it moves to provide technology support for parent company Vivendi Universal. The company said its MP3.com Web site will still give customers a place to...
[October 22, 2001, 9:04]
MP3.com gets the open source spirit
News MP3.com on Tuesday said it would make its extensive online music database and streaming technology freely available to developers, letting rivals tap into its hard-won music locker service. The move effectively gives rivals access to music rights...
[January 17, 2001, 9:01]
MP3.com assets sold
Talkback For years, MP3.com has been the source for independent artists to share their music free of charge, and a source for fans to find great music from both well-known and independent bands. I have run a Christian music station on MP3.com for about a...
[November 18, 2003, 22:05]
MP3.com IPO rings in £215 million
News MP3.com, which lets Internet users download news and MP3-formatted music, had put a price tag of $11 (£7) per share earlier this month. Today's sale represents an 18 percent stake of MP3.com and gives the company a market value of $1.86bn (£1.16bn).
[July 21, 1999, 14:07]
MP3.com sets sights on subscriptions
News MP3.com said Tuesday it has launched a new subscription service in a move to raise money and reach profitability. MP3.com's Premium Listener Service, or PluS Express, combines My.MP3.com online music-storage service with a player that includes...
[June 13, 2001, 16:16]
MP3.com and EMI settle
News Maverick music site MP3.com has agreed settlement terms with EMI. MP3.com can now include EMI's music in its download service. In April, a US court ruled that MP3.com had violated the copyright of five major record labels by allowing users to...
[July 31, 2000, 15:10]
MP3.com wades into wireless waters
News MP3.com jumped into the booming wireless jetstream Wednesday with the launch of its Wireless Live Events Calendar -- through which wireless users will be able to locate and purchase tickets to live events anywhere in the world.
[June 2, 2000, 9:04]
MP3.com to offer wireless sync
News Song-swap site MP3.com will launch a service Monday to let users download a song and automatically share it with their mobile phone or handheld computer. The deal is a partnership between MP3.com and fusionOne, which provides the synchronisation...
[November 6, 2000, 15:38]
