File-sharing phenomenon Napster just announced its latest act with a $207 million deal that has some millennials scratching ...

Now owned by XR company Infinite Reality, the onetime music-sharing platform may once again turn the industry on its head ...

A tech startup announced Tuesday it had bought Napster in hopes of transforming the streaming service into a social music platform.

The huge pay day for the platform came two decades after it faced legal troubles over its controversial music-sharing strategy, with co-developers Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning being accused of ...

The music-streaming service Napster has sold for $207 million to the tech firm Infinite Reality.

NEW YORK (AP) — A brand that was notoriously connected to music piracy before reemerging as a subscription music service has ...

That version of the Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning-founded business went under in the early ’00s, but the name was resurrected and slapped on a subscription streaming service after it was bought ...

Napster was launched in 1999 by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker and quickly became the first significant peer-to-peer file-sharing application. It shuttered in early 2000s after the record industry ...

Napster, created in 1999 by Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning, was one of the first services that allowed listeners to swap songs. It was shut down in 2001 and the company filed for bankruptcy in June ...

Napster was a program created by 19-year-old Shawn Fanning as a way to share MP3 audio files from one computer to another. At its peak, Napster facilitated nearly 2 billion file transfers per ...