Patent Monkey: AOL Online Music Sold to Napster
- January 13th, 2007
- 5 Comments
In news yesterday, AOL shed more of its business by announcing that they are selling their online Music NOw business to Napster. Napster, surprisingly, has a few patents in their pocket, while our analysis of AOL shows that they had very little to offer other than customer accounts making the low-valuation of $43 per user as compared to Napster’s $328 logical.
Yeah, but does Napster have a cell phone, touch screen music player and internet device? At least Napster knows it owns its name.
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Alex Becker (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Just reading this brings back bad memories. AOL was such crap, and trying to quit was like Mission Impossible 3
Spud (Who am I?)
1 year ago
What’s left at AOL? It seems they are downsizing, restructuring or gone completely bonkers. Whatever it is, the AOL of 12 months ago is not the AOL of today.
Annonymouse Coward (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Ignoring AOL and Napster for a moment, I just want to know how you had the patience to put all that patent information together on one page.
patent-monkey (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Actually quite easy - we’re getting ready to roll out some features so that anyone can do it. :)
tips (Who am I?)
9 months ago
This is great, look forward to looking into every area. Thanks for being there.