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Indie download site eMusic ‘up for sale’
Refuses to follow broken biz plan Pioneering indie music download site eMusic will listen to acquisition offers, according to its chief executive.… ?
Continue reading »Apple to acquire music streamer Lala?
The future of music may be cloudy Updated Apple is said to be in acquisition talks with online music-streaming service Lala.…
Continue reading »Google swallows AdMob for $750m
In-app mobile ads, anyone? Google is backing a dump truck of acquisition money on AdMob, a company that specializes on serving display ads on the iPhone and other mobile devices.…
Continue reading »Pirate Bay Men Threatened with New Fine for Keeping the Site Going
The famous picture of the two indicted – Gottfried Svartholm Warg & Fredrik Neij (left to right) After earlier today we reported about new potential buyers for Pirate Bay (some of whom are actually…old suitors, namely, Hans Pandeya) now we return with more news on the Swedish torrent tracker. While Peter Sunde is rumored to be behind one of the acquisition attempts, his two former colleagues are again facing legal repercussions as the Stockholm district court accuse them of still running TPB and assisting in copyright infringement. The court threatened Gottfried Svartholm Warg and Fredrik Neij with a harsh $US 70,000 fine for each if they don’t give up entirely their involvement in the illegal activity of the site.
Continue reading »New Buyers Pursuing The Pirate Bay
After Global Gaming Factory failed to carry out the taking over of the Pirate Bay in a soap-opera-like episode reporting, the popular file sharing site is courted by new buyers. A new report reveals who might be behind two of the four potential buyers: Theodore Bergquist CEO of GamersGate, a Swedish online computer games producer suggested they could be interested in acquiring TPB: “We are looking at many potential deals,” Bergquist told Di. “All I can say is that The Pirate Bay is an interesting brand loaded with great potential for those who deal with it properly.” As TorrentFreak reports, GamersGate is pursuing a new business plan which buying TPB would prove helpful – the company reached a major increase in business last year (100% !) and it’s now trying to beat that accomplishment by going after a 200% growth.
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