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Sean Parker: Apple May Have Tried To Block iTunes Rival

Reuters | Alexei Oreskovic | Posted 05.31.2012

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By Alexei Oreskovic RANCHO PALOS VERDES, California (Reuters) - Apple Inc may have tried to prevent Spotify, the popular music streamin...

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New Music Seminar: A Conversation With Tom Silverman, Plus Chatting With Marty Stuart and Jesse Winchester

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.09.2012

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What Can We Expect From Sean Parker's Airtime?

The Huffington Post | Sara Gates | Posted 05.08.2012

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Airtime, Sean Parker's new startup, will launch on June 5, 2012. You remember Parker, the internet entrepreneur and first President of Facebook the an...

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SXSW Chronicles: Digital Disrupts Economy, Politics and Redefines Relationships - Days 3 & 4

Pedro L. Rodriguez | Posted 05.14.2012

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Each day I've been making educated guesses about what panels to attend at SXSWi, like a strenuous game of tic-tac-toe. That's because any given SXSW-p...

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'Democracy Has Been Hacked'

AP | JAKE COYLE | Posted 05.13.2012

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AUSTIN, Texas — In a wide-ranging talk about the Internet and government, Al Gore urged the techie crowd at South By Southwest to use digital to...

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Sean Parker Defends 'Creepy' Facebook

The Huffington Post | Ramona Emerson | Posted 12.18.2011

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On Monday, internet entrepreneur Sean Parker took the stage at at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco to talk about Facebook's challenges, the changin...

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Today's Creepy Is Tomorrow's Necessity: Policy Invades Web 2.0 Summit

Christina Gagnier | Posted 12.18.2011

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The beginning of today's Web 2.0 Summit, focusing on big data and, appropriately themed, "The Data Frame," was kicked off in a conversation with Spoti...

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Bay Area Bad Boys Name Surprising Picks For SF Mayor

Robin Wilkey | Posted 12.04.2011

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It seems the San Francisco mayoral frontrunners have some unconventional supporters. According to The Examiner, tech titan Steve Parker signed a s...

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Sean Parker's Big Social Media Move

The Huffington Post | Craig Kanalley | Posted 12.03.2011

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Sean Parker, a co-founder of Napster and former president of Facebook, joined Twitter on Monday. His first tweet has already been retweeted more th...

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PHOTOS: Secret Facebook Party Draws MEGA Celebrities

Robin Wilkey | Posted 11.23.2011

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There is nothing San Francisco loves more than an impromptu, bottomless-price-tag blowout hosted by a billionaire bad boy. So when we heard about ...

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At Last: Spotify Is Coming To America

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 09.05.2011

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After months of false starts, rumored difficulties obtaining licenses from record labels and a whole lot of hullaballoo, European music streaming star...

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Sean Parker: I Trolled For Girls On Myspace

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 08.22.2011

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"So, what inspired you to write 'Sexyback'?" That's how Jimmy Fallon began his interview with Sean Parker at the NExTWORK conference. Played by Jus...

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Sean Parker Says He's One Of Social Media's Victims

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 07.25.2011

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During a panel at the eG8 forum in Paris, Sean Parker, ground-floor employee at Napster and first president of Facebook, took the stage and shared som...

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SwoonXO and Shawn Fanning's Supyo Kickstart Live Social Networking Punch

Harmon Leon | Posted 07.16.2011

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Chatroulette is like the Wild West of live social networking where deviant behavior becomes the unmonitored norm. Shawn Fanning's next big endeavor is a "live" social network site named Supyo -- Chatroulette done right.

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Former Google CEO, Facebook President Back New Business

Posted 06.11.2011

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A high-profile roster of moguls in the tech and media industry are investing in a merchant bank, Raine, according to the Financial Times. The FT repo...

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The Facebook Billionaire's Club

Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facebook not only made household names out of its founders thanks to the movie "The Social Network" -- it has also minted the l...

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Napster Co-Founder Sean Parker: A Billion Dollars Isn't Cool

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sean Parker, who was portrayed by Justin Timberlake in the Oscar-winning blockbuster, The Social Network, recently sat down for a one-on-one interview...

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Will Facebook Replace Labor Unions?

Tom Hayes | Posted 05.25.2011

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While the hidebound institution of the union will become less relevant, organized labor as a force will become more powerful in years to come. Things will just happen differently.

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The Big Difference Between the Real Sean Parker and the Justin Timberlake Portrayal

Henry Blodget | Posted 05.25.2011

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Unlike the real-life Sean Parker, who was horrified by the movie's portrayal, I was not concerned the movie would wreck his reputation. But there is an important difference between the Sean Parker in the movie and the real one.

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Ex-Facebook Prez Buys $20 Million West Village Pad

Posted 05.25.2011

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Sean Parker just plunked down a cool $20 million for a converted carriage house in the West Village. The residence was on the market for five years...

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Sean Parker On Victoria's Secret Models In Silicon Valley

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sean Parker, technology entrepreneur, co-founder of music-sharing service Napster and the first president of Facebook, addressed his portrayal in the ...

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Au Contraire! The Social Network -- First in a Series of Contrarian Rants

Glenn Young | Posted 05.25.2011

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First in a series of occasional contrarian rants against prevailing critical tides. The Social Network The new movie sensation about the barely po...

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Facebook Co-Founders Give $170,000 To Help Legalize Marijuana

AP | MARCUS WOHLSEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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SAN FRANCISCO — California's ballot measure to legalize marijuana has a new friend: Facebook co-founder Sean Parker has given $100,000 to back the p...

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Former Facebook President Denies Threatening Club Doorkeeper

nypost.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sean Parker -- who is sleazily portrayed by Justin Timberlake in "The Social Network" -- denies he yelled at the doorkeeper at a downtown club that he...

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Marijuana Rights Groups Prepared for Serious Highs and Lows

Daniel Hernandez | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the coming years, NORML will join other local and national organizations in challenging the pharmaceutical remodeling of medical marijuana, a looming political trend that they call "anti-pleasure seeking, hypocritical" policy toward intoxicating drugs.

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