Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson is in a mixing room in Lower Manhattan--but instead of hawking headphones like he's scheduled to do, the Jamaica, Queens-bred rapper is hinting about investing in Spotify and all sorts of other Silicon Valley startups. Looks like G-Unit's getting a VC division.READ»
Digital music service Rdio today introduced free, on-demand streaming music--"free" being the key point here. No registration. No credit cards. No downloads. And best of all, no ads. The San Francisco-based startup is providing instant access to its catalog of more than 12 million songs. For no cost.READ»
Fitness makes me a better leader," says Napster general manager Christopher Allen, who will pedal his way through the holiday after the National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM) convention. "Anyone who's anyone in music ...READ»
Talk about not hitting your numbers. The Napster co-founder and Facebook investor makes a case for his latest investment, Spotify, based on math that's out by a few trillion or so.READ»
Sean Parker is already famous in today's Web-connected tech world, mythical perhaps. But he's about to get even more famous thanks to a Vanity Fair profile and a movie that's indirectly about his life. READ»
While American soccer fans toast their 1-1 win over England on Saturday night, innovation didn't really care, because it was inventing a new ballgame to be played in a new ballpark. With four-legged hairdroids.1. In advance of his ...READ»
Napster, the original file-sharing site that set the digital music world into a tailspin, is making yet another phoenix-like return to life from the ashes of its former self. This time it's as a music streaming site, and it's got Best ...READ»
