{"id":20,"date":"2004-08-12T08:35:19","date_gmt":"2004-08-12T16:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/12\/being-napster\/"},"modified":"2004-08-12T08:35:19","modified_gmt":"2004-08-12T16:35:19","slug":"being-napster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/12\/being-napster\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Napster"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><b>MacCentral<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/maccentral.macworld.com\/news\/2004\/08\/09\/roxio\/\">Roxio to Sell Software Division, Become Napster<\/a>  In posting its quarterly financial results on Monday, Roxio Inc. announced plans to sell its software division to Sonic Solutions in a transaction valued at US$80 million. The deal is subject to the customary regulatory and shareholder approval, but Roxio has already outlined plans to change its name to Napster, focused solely on selling digital music.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s an interesting strategy!  A $120M company dumps its main product line for $80M just so it can focus on selling digital music?  Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/contracts.onecle.com\/roxio\/sonic.apa.2004.08.09.shtml\">Asset Purchase Agreement<\/a> between Sonic Solutions and Roxio.  I&#8217;ve also posted other <a href=\"http:\/\/contracts.onecle.com\/alpha\/6355.shtml\">Roxio contracts<\/a> on the web site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MacCentral: Roxio to Sell Software Division, Become Napster In posting its quarterly financial results on Monday, Roxio Inc. announced plans to sell its software division to Sonic Solutions in a transaction valued at US$80 million. The deal is subject to the customary regulatory and shareholder approval, but Roxio has already outlined plans to change its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporate-buzz"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}