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iFive: Amazon's Cloud Music, Twitter's Spam Retweet, Facebook's Politicos, Beatles MP3 Fines, Nokia Sues Apple...Again

Our round-up of the early news helps you catch up on what's been happening in tech and innovation.READ»

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Jack Dorsey's Re-Tweet, Radiohead's Newspaper, eBay's Billion-Dollar Spending Spree, Facebook Prof, and more...

Welcome to Fast Feed, the Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--bite-sized and updated all day.READ»

Taking Control: How Paul McCartney Tried to Reinvent the Beatles

In this excerpt from their new book "Come Together: The Business Wisdom of the Beatles," authors Richard Courtney and George Cassidy discuss how Paul did what every good leader tries do with a failing enterprise, change the strategy to save the business.READ»

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Beatles for Sale! Apple's iTunes Scores Rights to Fab Four Catalog: Report

Steve Jobs is undoubtedly a huge fan of The Beatles. Their music can often be heard playing before Apple's press events. Ironically, the Fab Four are nowhere to be found on iTunes--until now.READ»

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BlueBeat Brings Out Free, Streaming iPhone App, Record Company Lawyers Rejoice

BlueBeat, the Murph and the Magic Tones of the digital age, has brought out an iPhone app, says Music Ally. It's free, it streams your music, and it's probably got the record labels' lawyers sharpening their pencils in anticipation. ...READ»

New Layar Makes The World Your Augmented Reality Show

It's hard not to be excited about Augmented Reality since it's a dream sci-fi tech that's actually real and growing before our eyes--led in part by the AR Browser Layar, which has just been updated. Its new powers show the future of ...READ»

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Hank Risan on BlueBeat's $20 Million Gamble...on 25-Cent Beatles Tracks?

Bluebeat founder Hank Risan says he sank $20 million into an effort to revolutionize digital music delivery. But he flushed it all the day he offered Beatles tracks for a quarter a pop, a judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge John ...READ»

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BlueBeat's Hank Risan: That's Not the Beatles, It's a "Virtual Cover Band"

If you thought that was AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and The Beatles you streamed for free or downloaded this week for $.25 from BlueBeat.com, it's an understandable error. The music sounded identical to songs by those artists. ...READ»

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Beatles Label EMI Slaps Former Huffington Post Blogger, BlueBeat Owner With Federal Lawsuit

Get your Beatles downloads from BlueBeat.com while they're hot--as in stolen, according to a federal copyright infringement lawsuit filed against the site and its owner by EMI records, which distributes the Beatles music, in Los ...READ»

From Guitar Hero to The Beatles: Music Games at War

With the debut of The Beatles: Rock Band and Guitar Hero 5, MTV Games and Activision Blizzard are fighting to dominate the music genre--but can they beat the recession?READ»

Apple Keynote Rumor Round-up: No iTablet, Beatles Instead?

It's about three weeks until Apple's September 2009 keynote, and rumors surrounding this one are probably bigger than they've been for any Fall Apple event for years. The latest is there'll be no iTablet, but the Beatles ... READ»

Beatles Discography Finally Gets Digital Remastering, Due 9/9/09

Some audiophiles would argue "let it be," but the Beatles' discography is finally being brought fully into the digital 21st Century: Apple Corps Ltd. and EMI Music have just announced that the completely re-mastered ...READ»