Sean Parker

Napster, the music-industry scourge that blazed a trail that led to modern digital music services, is about to head off into its final good night. On Thursday, Napster will be merged officially with Rhapsody, the largest on-demand music service in the U....

Someone leaked Facebook's financial information, Gawker says. Here are the numbers....

Celebrated graffiti artist David Choe has once again tagged Facebook, painting murals at the company's new Menlo Park campus at the request of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg....

David Choe could stand to earn upward of $200 million from Facebook's initial public offering, according to a recent report. That kind of money would no doubt make even Jeff Koons or Damien Hirst envious....

Rock 'n' roll brings the headliners to South by Southwest, but the tech sector brings the registrants. The annual industry gathering, spring break party and brand bonanza is already underway in Austin, Texas, but it isn't until Tuesday that the one-time...

Nothing gets my cynic juices flowing quite like hearing people call on the Internet to fix the political system. Former Vice President Al Gore and online entrepreneur Sean Parker gave an overflow crowd at the South by Southwest trade show......

While pledging an allegiance to neutrality, Napster co-founder Sean Parker essentially sounded the sirens of battle, and predicted an oncoming bout between labels and artists. He was speaking at a session at South by Southwest's music festival in Austin,...

It’s been 31 years since MTV ushered in a new means of artist promotion by popularizing the music video. As the network expanded its programming beyond songs and the Web became the go-to-place for artist discovery, sites such as YouTube soon...

Times music writer Todd Martens files his final dispatch from Austin, Texas. The post looks at the debate surrounding the financial viability of sites such as Spotify, as well as recommended acts. Among the latter, Martens writes about Tanlines, the...

Nine months after Spotify launched in the U.S., the Swedish digital music company announced that it will extend its unlimited free service -- at least for the time being. So the "honeymoon," as the company calls it, continues....

Spotify unveiled a Facebook Timeline that seeks to offer a chronology of music from the last 900 years. Times pop music critic Randall Roberts takes a look at the entries and makes a few suggestions....