Saturday, December 21, 2013

Mysterious investor will save Winamp? [UPDATE] - Gazeta.pl

Update

Spotify so much counting on the fact that AOL finally close the page Winamp.com that presented his mp3 player called Spotiamp . The official website of the application states that created “in memory of” the most famous program to play mp3. Spotiamp is basically clone – both the user interface and particular functions are very close to the original.

http://spotiamp.com/ Fig. http://spotiamp.com/

Unfortunately for Spotify Winamp is still “alive”. Unfortunately for AOL appeared on the market a competitor, which can complicate the issue of the sale of Winamp …

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According to the information portal TechCrunch AOL, owner of Winamp, almost finalized its acquisition of “unspecified buyer.” Information leaked to the media on Thursday – the day before the scheduled closing on Dec. 21 service.

wrote in November e Winamp had to disappear from the network but still generates a profit of six million U.S. dollars per year and has a gigantic fan base. Those, moreover, AOL posted a petition asking that the service could work on. In less than a month collected 46 thousand. signatures.

According to TechCrunch about the closure of the site sparked considerable interest in the industry – buying Winamp had to consider, inter alia, Microsoft.

Officially, the company declined to give any comment, the previous expression is known only that “AOL tried unsuccessfully to sell Winamp for months.” Maybe the mysterious investor managed to get a great price?

Is that Microsoft is behind the acquisition? Everything is possible, the Redmond giant with Winamp “receive” hundreds of thousands of loyal customers. He will want to convince them that Windows Phone is the most comfortable environment for music fans

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