Napster looks at aquiring assets of Gigabeat

Song-swap service Napster, which is struggling to stay alive in the wake of a court order that has eroded its customer base, may buy some assets of cash-strapped music-indexing technology company Gigabeat, a spokeswoman said at the weekend.

The assets Napster is seeking are presumably the software and database used to suggest to site visitors new music classified, for example, by genre, mood or rhythm.