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BBC NEWS | Technology | Music site Last.fm bought by CBS

voyvasva rated 16 months ago
"Social music site Last.fm has been bought by US media giant CBS Corporation for $280m (£140m), the largest-ever UK Web 2.0 acquisition. The online network was founded in the UK five years ago and it now has more than 15 million active users." Seems no-one quite gets it... who's cr...

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aliiscool rated 16 months ago
i know they are gonna have the proof that I pirate music!
voyvasva rated 16 months ago
"Social music site Last.fm has been bought by US media giant CBS Corporation for $280m (£140m), the largest-ever UK Web 2.0 acquisition. The online network was founded in the UK five years ago and it now has more than 15 million active users." Seems no-one quite gets it... who's creating that kind of value in just 5 years?... who's the content producer in all this?... certainly not the developers who just hit the jackpot...
konradc rated 17 months ago
From the page: "Last.fm has been bought by US media giant CBS Corporation for $280m (£140m), the largest-ever UK Web 2.0 acquisition"
fakeblonde rated 16 months ago
"Social music site Last.fm has been bought by US media giant CBS Corporation for $280m (£140m), the largest-ever UK Web 2.0 acquisition."
leiaxe rated 16 months ago
Last.fm gets bought by CBS Corporation... kinda lame, really. Regardless of the end user experience, I like to cheer for smaller independent companies. Who ever cheers for a branch of a division of a conglomerate?
autorave rated 17 months ago
Let's see what happens next.