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Staci D. Kramer
Mar 25, 2009 4:13 PM
Music social net Project Playlist is still barred by Facebook and MySpace but a deal with EMI Music adds considerably to the startup’s legit music firepower—and drops the number of majors still suing the startup to two. EMI Music is the second major to sign on, following a December deal…
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Staci D. Kramer
Mar 23, 2009 4:57 PM
The latest game of digital musical chairs at EMI Music leaves former *Google* CIO Douglas Merrill without a seat, former Second Life exec Cory Ondrejka as the top digital marketing exec—and digital no longer on its own. Merrill joined EMI a year ago as president of digital business, adding the…
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Patrick Smith
Mar 3, 2009 1:28 PM
As the post-credit bubble world adjusts to deal with pre-bubble deals, Terra Firma has written off half the value of its €2.6 billion (£2.3 billion) investment in music group EMI. The private equity giant revealed in its 2008 annual report that EMI accounts for most of a $1.71 billion (€1.36…
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Robert Andrews
Feb 25, 2009 11:16 AM
Seeqpod’s founders must feel like Mike Robertson about now. Just as EMI is suing the MP3.com founder for his Sideload site, the label and its Capitol imprint have now filed suit against Seeqpod for copyright infringement, VentureBeat writes. Warner already sued Seeqpod, which doesn’t host tracks but provides a search…
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Patrick Smith
Feb 1, 2009 11:18 PM
As the music biz tries to cope with a disappearing physical CD sales market, EMI appears to be taking some steps in the right direction. The company’s digital revenues rose to £102 million in the six months to September 30, a 38 percent increase from the previous half’s £74 million…
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Staci D. Kramer
Jan 16, 2009 3:19 PM
Another batch of changes from EMI and owner Terra Firma, but, in a statement, Terra Firma head Guy Hands described the new appointments as “the final part of the process of putting in place a new management team at EMI Music under Elio Leoni-Sceti and at EMI Music Publishing under…
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Robert Andrews
Dec 17, 2008 4:15 AM
Nevermind iTunes, EMI Music is going direct to fans with the surprise launch of a new EMI.com site featuring playlists, recommendations and, soon, the ability to purchase tracks from the label’s artists. The new EMI.com - currently in “beta”, just like EMI itself nowadays - is first and foremost a…
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Robert Andrews
Nov 17, 2008 4:29 AM
As Terra Firma’s new broom continues sweeping clean at EMI - with restructuring, job cuts and savings on those lavish artist luxuries - it’s clear the new leadership is thinking more radically. For one, it’s tapping former Coca-Cola strategic alliances head Rafael McDonnell, who launched the now mothballed Mycokemusic.com download…
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Rafat Ali
Nov 7, 2008 12:36 AM
You wouldn’t wish your enemies the job of trying to restructure and revive EMI at this point, but at least they are trying: Elio Leoni-Sceti, the new CEO of the troubled music label, will announce a restructuring of the company today in London, as part of the company’s first half…
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Staci D. Kramer
Oct 8, 2008 8:53 AM
EMI is planning a pre-holiday launch of a new music portal that will include the ability to buy downloads, according to the FT. We’ve confirmed that but a source familiar with the project says it is not an attempt to displace digital retailers like iTunes or *Amazon* or as some…
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Staci D. Kramer
Sep 29, 2008 5:31 AM
A bit of news you’re reading here first—EMI Music is bringing on Howard Handler as EVP/Head of Marketing for North America. Expect the announcement this morning. Based in New York, Handler will oversee all marketing function in U.S. and Canada; he’ll report to Sam van der Feltz, President of Global…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Aug 19, 2008 1:51 PM
Record labels have to keep experimenting on new ways to market their products. Case in point: Capitol/EMI says it is partnering with newspaper publisher Gannett (NYSE: GCI) to offer free streams of the forthcoming Brian Wilson (ex-Beach Boys) album before it goes on sale. Starting Friday, That Lucky Old Sun…
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Staci D. Kramer
Jul 31, 2008 1:50 PM
Music start-up vet Mark Piibe is moving to the digital side at EMI as global head of digital business development for EMI Music. Effective immediately, Piibe, who had been SVP-Business Affairs for EMI Music North America since December, will oversee business development efforts; he remains based in New Yoirk and…
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Rafat Ali
Jun 10, 2008 11:23 AM
XM Satellite Radio (NSDQ: XMSR) has settled a lawsuit brought by EMI against the firm over the Pioneer Inno digital media player, which has live recording capabilities. This is the last of the four major record labels to settle the suit filed in 2006, and the terms were not disclosed.…
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Robert Andrews
Jun 9, 2008 7:22 AM
EMI Music is hiring Linden Lab co-founder and developer guru Cory Ondrejka to the new position of digital strategy SVP, in a move it says will “drive innovation around new revenue opportunities and build a world-class engineering team for the company”. After EMI Music lured Googler Douglas Merrill to be…
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Dianne See Morrison
Jun 3, 2008 11:25 PM
SpiralFrog, the ad-funded free music and video download site, has signed a distribution deal with UK-based label EMI, giving it access to the content of two of the four major US labels, reports AP. It signed a similar licensing agreement with Universal Music Group before it launched last September. More…
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Rafat Ali
Apr 1, 2008 6:01 PM
Another high profile Google (NSDQ: GOOG) departure: VP of Engineering Douglas Merrill has left the online giant and joined the embattled music label EMI as its president of its digital unit, apparently in an attempt to add more digital mojo at the company. The news was first reported here and…
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Staci D. Kramer
Feb 15, 2008 4:15 PM
paidContent has learned that News Corp (NYSE: NWS). is pursuing a music joint venture for MySpace—similar to Hulu, its video joint venture with NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), but with variations on the theme. The constant in both instances is content for equity. Under this scheme, MySpace would be the operator…
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Robert Andrews
Feb 12, 2008 8:18 PM
EMI has licensed Jamba to provide what the News Corp (NYSE: NWS). and Verisign-owned mobile entertainment JV says is the label’s first DRM-free repertoire in Europe to cross both mobile and the PC, we’ve learned. Though tracks may not appear online for another couple of months, the deal was signed…
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Staci D. Kramer
Jan 29, 2008 3:43 PM
The New York Daily News and EMI have cooked up a promo for this Sunday (Super Bowl) and Feb. 10 (Grammys): three free downloads for readers of each day’s NYDN. Each copy of the paper on those days will have an insert with a unique code that can be keyed…
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