Last.fm sells for 140m of her majesty's pounds

Published 31 May 07 03:49 PM

One of my favourite music sites, Last.fm, has been bought by a US media company, CBS, for £140m ($280m). This is fantastic news for a number of reasons: they are a UK start-up and have great personality to boot; and they have some really cool software+services running in the backend.

I can run last.fm using Flash through the browser, install a Windows client that will run in my system tray not taking up space and now I can even embed last.fm on other web properties that I run as Widgets.

Now, with Microsoft hat on, this would be a perfect opportunity for us to engage them about the virtues of Silverlight as a rich web technology alongside the rich desktop experience which is WPF. It will be great to see how they bring the "social music revolution" to video and the HDTV generation.

Congrats to the last.fm team on the acquisition.

 

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# Mark Johnston's Developer Experiences : Last.fm sells for 140m of her majesty's pounds said on May 31, 2007 12:18 PM:

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# Mark Johnston's Blog said on March 25, 2008 5:20 AM:

I'm a big fan of Last.fm and will be giving this a go on my home machine for listening to music. Last.fm

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