Augment AI wants to be your AI-powered sidekick. The Seattle startup, which spun out of the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), emerged from stealth mode Tuesday and opened a private beta. The… Read More
MelodyVR Group’s deal to acquire music service Napster, announced early this morning, could be a financial boon for RealNetworks, and not just because of the $70 million purchase price. RealNetworks,… Read More
Sony’s effort to replicate the immersive soundscape of a live musical performance is coming to listeners this fall, and Seattle-based Napster and Amazon are among several partners teaming with the… Read More
Napster parent company Rhapsody snagged Angel Gambino as its chief commercial officer. Gambino founded and was CEO of Sensai, which uses AI to help organizations improve social media campaigns. Gambino’s… Read More
RealNetworks doubled its stake in Rhapsody International, which owns music streaming service Napster, from 42 to 84 percent. RealNetworks will pay $1 million up front in a deal that could… Read More
Napster is coming to Japan. Or, at least, its underlying technology is. Seattle-based Rhapsody International and Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. announced Monday that the two companies will partner on… Read More
In streaming music, Spotify gets the celebrity. Spotify gets the global reach. Spotify gets the IPO. Yet the music service originally known as Rhapsody was the streaming pioneer. It had… Read More
Bill Patrizio, formerly the president of consumer media for RealNetworks, was appointed CEO of Rhapsody International, the parent company of music streaming service Napster. Patrizio previously served as the interim… Read More
Boston-based iHeartMedia is launching a new on-demand music streaming service powered by Napster. iHeartRadio All Access is $10 a month subscription that includes the company’s core radio product plus the… Read More
Seattle-based Rhapsody International, which operates the Napster music service, posted a profit of more than $1.6 million in the third quarter on record revenue of more than $54 million, several months… Read More
Little guys have to stick together. Sprint and Napster — two underdogs in their respective industries — announced a new agreement today to add Napster as a new music streaming… Read More
Exclusive streaming deals with artists have become a powerful, but controversial, source of ammunition in the digital music battle. In an interview with GeekWire, Napster CFO and Head of Label… Read More
Rhapsody, the granddaddy of music streaming services, will dump its longtime name in the U.S. in favor of the Napster brand that it has been using internationally, creating “one global… Read More
Seattle-based Rhapsody International — composed of music streaming services Rhapsody and Napster — announced Mike Davis as the first CEO in the parent company’s history. Previously, Davis worked as a TPG… Read More
Rhapsody International, the company behind the subscription music service that predates Spotify by five years, posted about $202 million in revenue in 2015—a new record and 16 percent more than 2014 revenues. But… Read More
Jordan Ritter got his first taste of entrepreneurship in 1999, when he was sharing a Silicon Valley apartment with startup superstars Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker at the San Mateo Marriott Residence Inn.… Read More
Rhapsody International has expanded the customer base for its Rhapsody and Napster music services by 50 percent over the past year, to more than 3 million subscribers combined, but that growth has come… Read More
Rhapsody International says it has surpassed 3 million subscribers combined for its Rhapsody and Napster music services, representing 50 percent growth over the past year, and the fastest expansion period in the… Read More
Rhapsody International, the parent company of the Rhapsody and Napster music services, posted a $21.3 million loss in 2014, even as its revenue climbed 23 percent to $173 million and its… Read More
Rhapsody, the Seattle-based music streaming company, said today it now has 2.5 million paid subscribers around the world using its Rhapsody and Napster music services. That’s a 60 percent increase… Read More
When we stumbled upon the stealthy startup Ivy Softworks earlier this year, Jordan Ritter didn’t want to say too much about his plans for the Seattle-based “innovation studio.” Ritter, who… Read More
Rhapsody — one of the pioneers in the online music arena — said today that it has topped two million paying subscribers for its Rhapsody and Napster music services. That’s… Read More
Seattle-based Rhapsody International today announced its first outside investment ever, pouring money into an electronic dance music (EDM) company. Rhapsody International, the parent company to Rhapsody and Napster, led a Series… Read More
Rhapsody, the subscription music service based in downtown Seattle, has been a private company since spinning off from RealNetworks as a standalone venture. That means Rhapsody doesn’t report its quarterly… Read More
The expansion of European music service Spotify to the U.S. last year brought considerable hand-wringing over the potential impact on Rhapsody, but the venerable Seattle-based music subscription service instead was… Read More
Ten years ago this weekend, on Dec. 3, 2001, the Rhapsody music service was launched by Listen.com, pioneering the concept of on-demand music. A lot has changed since then. Rhapsody… Read More
Rhapsody’s acquisition of Napster from Best Buy gives the Seattle-based music service an opportunity to add a “meaningful” number of subscribers to its customer base, says Rhapsody’s president, Jon Irwin,… Read More