Shawn "Napster" Fanning (born November 22, 1980, Brockton, Massachusetts), is a computer programmer. He is best known for developing Napster, the first popular peer-to-peer filesharing platform, in 1998.
Source: Forbes Blogs
Start-up watchers have been counting down the launch of Airtime, the social video site being developed by Napster founders Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning. On June 5th, we’ll get our first look at the compan ...
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Source: Digital Media Wire
Airtime, the startup many have heard of but few know what it does, closed a reported $25 million third round of financing led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield ...
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Source: San Francisco Business Times
Patrick Hoge covers technology for the San Francisco Business Times. Airtime Media Inc., the secretive startup co-founded by Napster co-founders Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker that is thought to be focused on video chat, is beating the drums as i ...
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Source: Vator.tv
The highly-anticipated and very hush-hush project created by Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning looks like it will exit stealth mode in just eight days, according to the company blog. And with about a week of speculation left floating around the tech ...
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Source: Simply Zesty
If you’re looking for another social site to talk about that isn’t Facebook, then look no further than Airtime – the video startup with an all-star investment team including Sean Parker, Shawn Fanning, Michael Arrington, will.i.a ...
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Source: The Next Web
First reported by TechCrunch, Sean Parker and Sean Fanning’s stealth video startup Airtime has announced a new round of funding along with its first acquisition. According to TechCrunch, the amount of funding raised for its B round is $25M. That’s not ba ...
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More like this 4 days ago, 8:25pm CDT
Source: TechCrunch
We’re hearing that Airtime, the video startup founded by famed Napster alums Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, has allegedly made its first acquisition — before truly exiting stealth mode. The target? Erly, the Kleiner Perki ...
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Source: Economic Times
How old is file sharing? The internet started as a network that enables its users to share data. All the early versions of the internet provided a mechanism by which users could share files without any centralised server. For ...
Full article at: Economic Times
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