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Why is iMeem Killing Rhapsody, Napster, & eMusic in Traffic?

Started by wise startup blog · 11 months ago

50 Cent, the consummate promoter, entrepreneur, rapper, Vitamin Water rep, gamer, video gamer character, and now publicity stunt for Taco Bell is now suing Taco Bell for unfairly using his trademark.
50 Cent Has a Case Against Taco Bell

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  • imeem is basicly giving users what they want, they're youtube for music.

    also little known is that many of imeem's engineers came from the original napster, it looks like roxio would have been better buying more than just the Napster name.
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  • Anne,

    Good point. It's really amazing to see that innovation trumps all.
    Even with these huge marketing budgets, consumers won't budge, but as
    soon as you give consumers something new, innovative and that they
    actually want ..and they flock to it.

    My question is, why didn't Rhapsody spend that $50 million on
    acquiring iMeem instead of on a marketing budget? Or perhaps pick up
    any of these other startups starting to generate a ton of interest
    from consumers?
  • Basically because imeem is a solid community

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