The debate over whether artists get enough money from streaming played out in public last week when EMI and Spotify executives failed to win… Read More »
Rhapsody Now Has One Million Music Subs In The U.S. Next Stop: Europe
By Ingrid Lunden
Dec. 22, 2011, 8:00pm
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It’s taken ten years, and a last leg up by way of an acquisition of a competitor, but Rhapsody says that it has finally reached one million… Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Following on from Part 1 of the ‘Innovation Files’ series, this post looks at EMI’s OpenEMI initiative and how it could drive transformation… Read More »
MP3tunes Wins Copyright Case Against EMI, For The Most Part
By Joe Mullin
Aug. 23, 2011, 4:25am
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A major battle over cloud-music services has been resolved, and on balance, it looks like a pretty solid win for the small music-locker serv… Read More »
Access Industries Closes $3.3 Billion Purchase Of Warner Music Group
By David Kaplan
Jul. 20, 2011, 10:02pm
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Warner Music Group’s sale to Access Industries has been completed for $8.25 per share in cash, or $3.3 billion. The record label’s board app… Read More »
After the sale to Terra Firma, the ensuring disaster, the salvage by Citigroup and the refinancing, could the next chapter for EMI be… ano… Read More »
Cloudy With A Chance Of Apple: How An iTunes Cloud Service Might Look
By Ingrid Lunden
May. 20, 2011, 10:58pm
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has yet to make any public announcements on cloud-based music services, but some more details have emerged that seem to i… Read More »
Mobile Lowdown 5-20-11: More Apple Cloud; NFC UK; iPhone China; WP7 Verizon
By Ingrid Lunden
May. 20, 2011, 3:27pm
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Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) files patents that point to a cloud service; two UK operators launch… Read More »
EMusic Reaches A Deal With EMI
By Joseph Tartakoff
May. 20, 2011, 1:00am
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eMusic, the online music “club” that offers members discounts on tracks in exchange for a monthly subscription fee, has struck a deal with a… Read More »
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By Ingrid Lunden
May. 19, 2011, 3:24pm
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Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Apple’s apparently getting closer to a cloud music product after signing a deal with EM… Read More »
EMI Music Publishing is pulling in-house from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) how some of its songs are li… Read More »
By Ingrid Lunden
Mar. 4, 2011, 5:11pm
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Our rundown of mobile news to start your day. Today we look at the newest reports around Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and cloud services; Motorola’s n… Read More »
By Ingrid Lunden
Feb. 22, 2011, 8:24pm
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New forecasts out today for the mobile music market from Juniper Research: it will bring in revenues of $5.5 billion by 2015, compared to $3… Read More »
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