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Topic: Digital Music Services

  
MEDIA   |  4 comments

Media: Can Google, Limewire Outplay iTunes?

BY Oscar Raymundo
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Aug 21, 2007 at 5:07 PM

The digital music market continues to be an exemplary battleground for the implications new media has on pre-established business practices. Startup gBox and infamous Limewire are venturing into the digital music market to try to ...READ»

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NAPSTER   |  Comment

Napster Returns as Best Buy's Streaming Music Muscle [Updated]

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon May 18, 2009 at 6:12 AM

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»

INTERNET + WEB   |  2 comments

Napster Mobile: It's More Than Ringtones

BY Lynne d Johnson
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Aug 10, 2006 at 10:27 PM

Napster sure has come a long way since college student Shawn Fanning started it as a peer-to-peer music sharing service back in 1999--and then it eventually got outlawed by the Recording Industry Association of America. After ...READ»

INTERNET + WEB   |  2 comments

Last.fm Gets Power from The Orchard

BY Lynne d Johnson
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Mar 13, 2007 at 9:52 PM

Maybe it's The Orchard Gets Power from Last.fm... The Orchard, a digital distribution vehicle for music, has formed a lot of partnerships lately with record labels and mobile carriers and content providers. But none of these ...READ»

ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT   |  3 comments

The Return of Free Music


Relevancy Score: 100
Mon May 1, 2006 at 11:05 AM

Last night at midnight Napster got closer to its free music exchange roots, launching a site that lets the public listen to any song in the Napster collection in its entirety up to five times, no charge. The sound quality isn't as ...READ»

INTERNET + WEB   |  1 comment

What Will CBS Do With last.fm Part Deux

BY Lynne d Johnson
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Jun 5, 2007 at 1:58 PM

I've been thinking a lot about CBS' acquisition of last.fm since I first posted about it last week. Maybe it's because I'm totally obsessed with the music discovery and listening service, or it's that I'm really unsure as to whether ...READ»

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YAHOO MUSIC   |  Comment

Yahoo Revamps its Online Music Portal, Aims For Number 1 Spot

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Apr 7, 2009 at 7:45 AM

Yahoo has just refreshed its Music Pages service with bunch of new band-configurable widgets that sort of turn it into the MySpace of the Music Industry: an interesting move, considering how many bands use MySpace for self-promotion ...READ»

INTERNET + WEB   |  1 comment

What Will CBS do With last.fm?

BY Lynne d Johnson
Relevancy Score: 92
Fri Jun 1, 2007 at 12:49 PM

Last night when I logged into my last.fm account, I noticed a couple of new features, or at least better organization and display of tools on my music profile page. But this is nothing new. It's what I've come to expect of the social ...READ»

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BeCG Wants a Music Revolution

BY Anni Layne
Relevancy Score: 91
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:35 AM

An extreme team within the world's fifth-largest music company is working to win the file-sharing battle and overhaul an industry. Can it get its competitors to stop suing and play along?READ»

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COPYRIGHT FEES   |  Comment

Score One for Sanity in Yahoo Music Webcast Ruling

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 81
Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 12:53 PM

The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled in favor of Yahoo's appeal against punitive music royalty fees levied on its online Launchcast music service. Sounds bland? Nope--it may have a big impact on the online music ...READ»

STRATEGY   |  5 comments

Music for Free

BY Lynne d Johnson
Relevancy Score: 60
Tue Aug 29, 2006 at 1:52 PM

After many years of going head-to-head with peer-to-peer networks from Napster to BitTorrent, the music industry has finally decided to give in. Vivendi's Universal Music Group--the world's largest music group--has joined forces ...READ»

AIG   |  Comment

Worst Trading Day Since 9/11, Tech Stocks Take Cover

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 60
Mon Sep 15, 2008 at 6:21 PM

The foundering of several bedrock financial companies helped create a perfect storm today, spurring to one of the worst trading days in nearly a decade. The tech sector didn't escape the catastrophe, but fared more buoyantly than ...READ»

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ITUNES   |  1 comment

iTunes' Share of Music Market Grows to 25%

BY Stephanie Schomer
Relevancy Score: 58
Tue Aug 18, 2009 at 10:53 AM

It's safe to say the music industry is in a transition period, but one thing that's not going anywhere? iTunes. iTunes has quickly taken hold of a good portion of the entire music industry: it accounts for 25% of all music units sold ...READ»

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2009 FAST 50   |  7 comments

The Most Innovative Companies in Music

BY Lynne d Johnson
Relevancy Score: 57
Wed Feb 11, 2009 at 5:50 PM

Apple may be the top music retailer in the U.S., but the company isn't alone when it comes to keeping the industry afloat. Here are the top 10 companies--and a band--innovating the business of music.READ»

TECHNOLOGY   |  2 comments

Can Apple Disrupt the Mobile Phone Industry?

BY Greg Spotts
Relevancy Score: 57
Thu Jan 11, 2007 at 11:00 AM

It's official: Apple has announced the iPhone handset, featuring a gorgeous design and a sparkling, innovative user interface. Will Apple function as a mere handset vendor, or a disruptor/transformer of the mobile phone ...READ»

TECHNOLOGY   |  1 comment

Digital Music Sales top $2B in 2006

BY Greg Spotts
Relevancy Score: 46
Wed Jan 17, 2007 at 3:43 PM

Today the IFPI released 2006 figures for the global music industry, demonstrating the continued growth of downloadable songs, ringtones, and other digital music services. Here are a few numbers from the report: Worldwide Digital ...READ»

MEDIA   |  Comment

Media: imeem's Triple Play

BY April Joyner
Relevancy Score: 45
Tue Oct 30, 2007 at 6:38 PM

Social media network imeem recently announced its partnership with EMI Music, which means that EMI's catalog of music and video is available for streaming on the media sharing service. With this latest announcement, imeem now offers ...READ»

ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT   |  4 comments

Ear and Now II

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 44
Wed Aug 20, 2003 at 5:48 PM

Last week, the ska-punk band Less Than Jake performed an acoustic in-store show at the Apple Store in Santa Monica, California. Now an exclusive live EP recorded at the shop is available through the iTunes Music Store. Nice media ...READ»

WARNER MUSIC   |  Comment

Warner, 7digital Spread the Music

BY Zachary Wilson
Relevancy Score: 43
Mon Aug 3, 2009 at 1:10 PM

In a sign that the major labels are finally beginning to embrace digital music worldwide, U.K.-based digital music provider 7digital announced a pan-European licensing agreement with Warner Music to sell their MP3s, nearly completing ...READ»

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COMES WITH MUSIC   |  Comment

Beware iTunes, Nokia Comes With Music [video]

BY Lynne d Johnson
Relevancy Score: 40
Mon Dec 15, 2008 at 7:22 PM

Nokia is making a play for Apple's iTunes domination of digital music downloading with its latest endeavor, Comes With Music, a digital entertainment service that comes bundled with Nokia XpressMusic phones and the Nokia N95 ...READ»

COMPETITION   |  1 comment

The Google Backlash


Relevancy Score: 38
Tue Mar 13, 2007 at 1:08 PM

Poor YouTube. It seems that this innovative idea that once attracted the world's amateur filmmakers to put their work out there for the world to see has become a target since it's purchase by behemoth search-provider Google, dooming ...READ»

TECHNOLOGY + COMPUTERS   |  3 comments

Is the Music Industry Blackmailing Microsoft?


Relevancy Score: 37
Thu Nov 9, 2006 at 5:21 PM

Microsoft plans to pay Universal Music a percentage of its revenue from sales of its new portable media player, the Zune, the New York Times reported yesterday. Microsoft is trying to position the Zune as an iPod killer and plans to ...READ»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION   |  1 comment

In Praise of Ecosystems

BY John J. Sviokla
Relevancy Score: 36
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:55 AM

Innovation doesn't occur in a vacuum -- which is why Apple's iPod will eventually be eclipsed by rivals that can cooperate and compete together.READ»

ENTERTAINMENT   |  Comment

YouTube's Newfound Clout

BY Peter Hoy
Relevancy Score: 36
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 11:05 AM

With Google in its corner, YouTube rewrites the rules in the fight between old media and new media. READ»

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Rocking the Jolly Roger

BY Tim Manners
Relevancy Score: 35
Tue Jul 8, 2008 at 5:45 PM

Oh, whatever will the music business do for pirates now that it has enticed Sean Fanning to walk its plank? Maybe it will come to understand piracy as a driver of sales and marketing strategy, instead of as a reason to hire lawyers ...READ»

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