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Japan’s E-commerce Giant Rakuten Buying Play.com For £25 Million

Sep 21, 2011 6:58 AM

It’s not all about online content distribution, you know? Play.com, the UK site that sells games, movies, music and more on ye olde plastic discs, is selling to Rakuten of Japan for £25 ($39.29) million.

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Posted In: E-Commerce, Entertainment, Games, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Countries, Asia, Japan, Europe, UK, play.com, rakuten

Play.com Steps Up Music Download Battle With 3 Million DRM-free Tracks From All Four Majors

Patrick Smith

Oct 10, 2008 5:13 AM

Play.com has signed up with all four major music labels to offer more than 3 million DRM-free tracks on its PlayDigital music download site, in a direct challenge to iTunes and Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) Comes with Music. Consumers can now get tracks from Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG, Warner (NYSE:WMG), Universal…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Music, Companies, EMI, Sony, SonyBMG, play.com