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The original Napster which began operations in June 1999 was a P2P MP3 music file sharing site that was forced to liquidate in September 2002 under Chapter 7 bankruptcy laws due to massive copyright violations that the RIAA enforced. However, Roxio, Inc. bought the Napster brand and logos at auction to use with their Pressplay music service. Then in In September 2008 Best Buy purchased the new paid Napster service from Roxio for $121 million USD.

Compaq started business in 1982 which was the same year IBM introduced their first personal computer. The IBM clone war was on as various manufacturers scrambled to build their version of IBM compatible PCs. Compaq came out on top with high quality versions that were faster and had better feature sets. Thus, Compaq was, at one time, the largest supplier of PCs in the world and the first company to gain Fortune 500 status in less than four years. In 2002 Compaq was acquired by Hewlett-Packard for 25 billion USD.

boo.com was one of the more famous companies that went bust when the dot-com internet bubble burst around the turn of the century (1995-2000). The internet based "branded fashion apparel" boo.com went live in 1999 and was placed in United Kingdom based receivership and liquidated in 2000 having already burnt through 135 million dollars of venture capitol (and much more overall) in 18 months. Mismanagement and an overly complex website (that could take minutes to load over the common 56k modems of the day) contributed to the failure.

The consumer electronics brand RCA or Radio Corporation of America started business in 1919 with radios, then added phonographs (or records and record players), and by 1939 had black and white televisions (and interestingly the United States first TV test pattern ). The 50s and 60s saw color TVs, computers and appliances, but by the 70s they were all over the place with rental cars, carpeting, frozen foods, greeting cards, etc... 1986 saw the takeover by GE and the breakup of RCA. Today Sony Music and Technicolor lease the RCA trademark for other products.

Poloroid began business in 1937 and gained popularity with polarized sunglasses. In 1948 they released the instant film camera which kept them profitable until the end of the century when digital cameras took over. In 2001 Poloroid filed bankruptcy and sold nearly everything, including the Poloroid name. After over a decade of layoffs, acquisitions, bankruptcy filings, and general turmoil, the "new" Polaroid group is implementing a comeback with various products and Lady Gaga appointed as creative director as of January 2010.