Call Of Duty Maker Booms As Vivendi Sells A Stake To Buy EMI
When Vivendi (EPA: VIV) announced it was buying EMI’s recorded music division last week, it cryptically said the deal would see it sell “500… Read more at paidContent »
It's Time For Transparency On Music Streaming Rates
Major labels may be hoping that new-wave digital music jukeboxes can make up for slowing downloads growth. But a drip-drip of labels pulling… Read more at paidContent »
Report: Google To Put A Piece Into Its Music Puzzle With Universal Deal
On the heels of news last week that it has secured EMI’s recorded music division for nearly $2 billion, Universal Music is again in the news… Read more at paidContent »
Tencent Launches A Shanzhai iTunes To Sync Your iPhone, iPad
Tencent (HKG:0700), China’s social media giant, has thumbed its nose at Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) (NASDAQ:AAPL) by releasing a desktop ‘App Assista… Read more at paidContent »
Apple Launches iTunes Match, But Puts Temporary Hold On New Subscriptions
It took a little longer than expected, but Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) launched iTunes Match Monday with the release of a new version of iTunes just… Read more at paidContent »
Spotify Expected To Launch In More Countries This Week
Spotify is ready to launch in Belgium, Austria and Switzerland, possibly as early as this week, paidContent understands. Read more at paidContent »
Apple launches iTunes Match in the U.S.
iTunes Match, the subscription service from Apple that scans your entire iTunes library and makes it available for download on any of your iOS or Mac devices, is now widely available. You can sign up by downloading iTunes 10.5.1, so long as you’re in the U.S. Read more »
EMI Group Split Between UMG And Sony
Four years after the whole label sold to Terra Firma for £4.2 ($6.69) billion, now one half of EMI Group – the record music division, EMI M… Read more at paidContent »
Vevo Mulling Premium Content, Global Expansion In 2012
“Charging or user subscription is not something that exists on the platform at the moment but is something being looked at for 2012,” Vevo’s… Read more at paidContent »
Spotifies May Steal Customers From Pandoras, With Facebook's Help
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Unlimited-access music subscription services will take almost a third of consumers’ digital music spending by 2015, analyst firm Gartner rec… Read more at paidContent »
What Twitter's Latest Move Means For Other Social TV Players
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As social TV emerges as something beyond an experiment for advertisers and TV networks, Twitter is eager to take a bigger role in connecting… Read more at paidContent »
The Morning Lowdown 11-08-11
» NYT Digital Head Martin Nisenholtz Retiring; Won’t Be Replaced; (paidContent; paidContent)
» New York Times (NYSE:… Read more at paidContent »
Shuffler.fm brings blog-based music discovery to iPad
Shuffler.fm finally released its official iPad app for public consumption in the App Store on Tuesday, after talking about its plans for an Apple tablet version first in August. The music discovery tool pulls its content from music blogs, combining them in a Flipboard-style experience. Read more »
What happens to ownership as the world goes digital?
The launch of Amazon’s new “Kindle lending” feature means another form of content is becoming something that we rent, Netflix-style, rather than owning. But moving to a rental rather than an ownership model changes our relationship to content, and not always in a good way. Read more »
Update: BPI Asks BT To Block BitTorrent Site Pirate Bay, Or It's Court Time
A new twist today in the battle of media companies trying to stop their content from being distributed by illegal means online: the UK’s mai… Read more at paidContent »
Amazon Prime Kindle Lending Library Opens For Business — With A Catch
Two weeks ahead of the shipping date for the Kindle Fire, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is adding more to its all-you-can-eat media buffet for Amazon… Read more at paidContent »
This Thursday: paidContent Entertainment, Hollywood
paidContent Entertainment: Everything Everywhere is this Thursday, November 3rd in West Hollywood. We’ve tweaked the program, the format, an… Read more at paidContent »
Apple Misses October Deadline For U.S. Launch Of iTunes Match
Apple’s iTunes Match service appears to have gotten lost amid the Halloween candy. Despite promises that it would launch its Internet-based… Read more at paidContent »
MOG sees 246% user growth, thanks to Facebook tie-in
Music streaming service MOG just released new growth figures, and it turns out that the music platform launched by Facebook in late September has given it a big boost. MOG now has 160,000 monthly active users, representing 264 percent growth for the month of October. Read more »
GarageBand comes to the iPhone and iPod touch
Apple has introduced an update for the iOS version of GarageBand that makes it compatible with iPhones and iPod touches. The universal app is available as a free update for owners of the iPad version, or it’s $4.99 if you’re buying it for the first time. Read more »
Rdio, Spotify Race To Launch In LatAm, Germany, Asia
Music subscription services are about to face off on the global stage. Rdio, kickstarted by Skype’s founders, is embarking on the internatio… Read more at paidContent »
Why iTunes Isn’t A Digital Vampire
Pete Townsend from The Who has called iTunes a ‘Digital Vampire’. As much as the claim makes for nice headlines, it is misplaced and poorly… Read more at paidContent »
November has arrived, but iTunes Match has not
Apple announced at its iPhone 4S event that iTunes Match would launch by “late October,” but that self-imposed deadline has come and gone, and consumers have yet to gain access to the service. The cloud music storage service has been available to developers since August. Read more »
Virgin Media’s Spotify Discounts Will Be Short-Term
When Virgin Media’s CEO said this summer he would bundle Spotify with his services at “significantly less” than Spotify’s own £9.99 Premium… Read more at paidContent »
Dialing For YouTube Dollars: Who’s In
YouTube announced its long-anticipated major programming push late Friday, with channels due to start rolling out in November. Here’s the Yo… Read more at paidContent »
The Awkward, Unanswered Questions That Led to Coldplay’s Spotify Embargo
Coldplay have opted to not have their latest album Mylo Xyloto made available on streaming services…all of them, though of course Spo… Read more at paidContent »
Music Service Aspiro Sells A Stake To Norwegian Retailer
Aspiro, the other Swedish unlimited music service operator, is selling a 6.5 percent stake to Norwegian entertainment retailer Platekompanie… Read more at paidContent »
Wow: SoundHound powering 4M voice searches a day
Buzz around voice recognition technology is louder than ever, thanks to the debut earlier this month Apple’s iPhone 4S with Siri. But Apple isn’t alone in the space. Voice recognition startup SoundHound says it has seen impressive user growth over the past year. Read more »
Has Apple missed the social-music train?
Reports that Google will include social features in its new music service reinforce what the rise of Spotify and other services have already made obvious — namely, that Apple and iTunes are falling behind in the social-music race, which could have significant consequences for the company. Read more »
Deezer Signing Deals To Launch In 130 More Countries
It only just expanded from France to the UK a month ago, but now unlimited-music service Deezer plans to go massively global. Read more at paidContent »
The Morning Lowdown 10-20-11
» MSN U.S. Head Scott Moore to Depart Portal (AllThingsD)
» Why Rupert Murdoch Should Announce A New Direction For Ne… Read more at paidContent »
Research: Spotify Had 2.4 Million U.S. Users In September
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Since Spotify launched in the U.S. this July, various folks have taken a stab at ascertaining its popularity. Here is another from comScore,… Read more at paidContent »
Yahoo’s Levinsohn On Executive Chaos: ‘You Sort Of Get Used To It’
A world-weary Ross Levinsohn of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) appears to be getting used to the idea of an executive circus taking place over his head.… Read more at paidContent »
Update: BlackBerry Outage Improving, Compensation Questions, CEO Speaks Up
Well, that wasn’t quick. But at least it’s good news: RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) says that its services are now finally getting restored in all the re… Read more at paidContent »
Industry Moves: ESPN; Underdog; Vindico; Compass Labs; RLM Finsbury; Spin
– *ESPN* Deportes: Freddy Rolón has been promoted to VP of ESPN (NYSE: DIS) Deportes Programming and Business Initiatives. He’ll lead the… Read more at paidContent »
