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AOL and Napster announced Friday that Napster will become the exclusive music subscription provider for AOL Music. The two companies will partner to migrate approximately 350,000 paid subscribers of the Music Now service to Napster's digital music subscription service.

One of the most recognizable names in online music sales has signed a "digital royalties deal."

Napster's looking for a friend, or a sugar daddy, whichever one makes a better offer. The controversial and troubled music download service announced the company was seeking partnerships, or a potential sale.

Napster is free again, for five songs only. Actually, it's 2 million songs, five times each. That's 10 million songs right? No, it's not. And it's only kind of free. Confused yet?

Lots of people have been downloading the chatter about Google possibly buying the Napster music service, but Google said it's not happening.

Snocap, the digital media company founded by former Napster pioneer Shawn Fanning inked a deal with Warner Music Group Corp. one of the world's largest record companies, to allow the authorized distribution of WMG's music across Snocap-enabled retail services. The deal with Warner means that snocap has now allied with all four of the world's largest record companies, including EMI Plc., Sony BMG, and Universal Music.

I have an iPod, so I get my online music primarily from Apple's iTunes store. My wife has a Samsung digital media player, so she uses Napster.

Napster and XM Satellite Radio have joined forces under a strategic partnership to integrate Napster's online music services and XM's satellite radio service.