Joseph Tartakoff
Jun 4, 2010 11:29 AM
A big win for online music startup MOG on the heels of its $10 million funding round: The company has now added Sony (NYSE: SNE) Music Entertainment’s sites to its ad network. The deal brings 117 major artist sites—like AliciaKeys.com and GossipYouth.com—to MOG’s network, which historically has been mostly made…
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Amanda Natividad
Mar 11, 2010 10:01 PM
Local newspapers may actually have an easier time charging for content than national and international news brands like the New York Times (NYSE: NYT). And what’s the biggest threat to paid music? Well, probably not piracy. These were among the assertions by panelists on paidContent2010’s The Truth About Subscriptions, who…
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Robert Andrews
Feb 25, 2010 10:26 PM
Berkeley, CA-based music service Mog.com, which recently launched its subscription music service with good review, is taking a new VC round to finance an entry to the UK market, promising to undercut the much-hyped Spotify and CBS-owned social site Last.fm, we have learned. The second round closed at around $10…
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Tameka Kee
Oct 14, 2009 12:01 AM
MOG.com is finally launching its streaming music service ... The music blog network said it succeeded in getting all four of the majors to buy in to its business plan, and the service will go live with a base of over five million tracks within the next few weeks. CEO…
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Rafat Ali
Jun 24, 2009 8:27 PM
Some new venture capital fundings, as gleaned from SEC filings filed over the last week or so: » Daylife: The NYC-based online news aggregation and software firm has raised $3.9 million in a new round of funding, its third. The last publicly disclosed funding was the second round of $8.3…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Apr 29, 2008 2:00 PM
Mog, the Berkeley, CA-based music community site, has taken a $2.8 million strategic investment from Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, as well as various angels. The site, which competes with sites like iMeem and iLike, was started by David Hyman, formerly of Gracenote, which recently announced a sale to Sony…
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