Napster retains UBS to look for sale
Napster, the former Silicon Valley music sharing site, has hired investment bank UBS to help it look for a sale.
Napster, now based in Los Angeles and pursuing a legal music download site after having had an outlawed past, is making decent revenues in excess of $100 million a year.
But it is losing money, and the competition in the area is only increasing.
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