Virgin Media’s Spotify Discounts Will Be Short-Term
When Virgin Media’s CEO said this summer he would bundle Spotify with his services at “significantly less” than Spotify’s own £9.99 Premium… Read more »
Dialing For YouTube Dollars: Who’s In
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YouTube announced its long-anticipated major programming push late Friday, with channels due to start rolling out in November. Here’s the Yo… Read more »
The Awkward, Unanswered Questions That Led to Coldplay’s Spotify Embargo
Coldplay have opted to not have their latest album Mylo Xyloto made available on streaming services…all of them, though of course Spo… Read more »
Music Service Aspiro Sells A Stake To Norwegian Retailer
Aspiro, the other Swedish unlimited music service operator, is selling a 6.5 percent stake to Norwegian entertainment retailer Platekompanie… Read more »
Deezer Signing Deals To Launch In 130 More Countries
It only just expanded from France to the UK a month ago, but now unlimited-music service Deezer plans to go massively global. Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-20-11
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» MSN U.S. Head Scott Moore to Depart Portal (AllThingsD)
» Why Rupert Murdoch Should Announce A New Direction For Ne… Read more »
Research: Spotify Had 2.4 Million U.S. Users In September
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Since Spotify launched in the U.S. this July, various folks have taken a stab at ascertaining its popularity. Here is another from comScore,… Read more »
Yahoo’s Levinsohn On Executive Chaos: ‘You Sort Of Get Used To It’
A world-weary Ross Levinsohn of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) appears to be getting used to the idea of an executive circus taking place over his head.… Read more »
Update: BlackBerry Outage Improving, Compensation Questions, CEO Speaks Up
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Well, that wasn’t quick. But at least it’s good news: RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) says that its services are now finally getting restored in all the re… Read more »
Industry Moves: ESPN; Underdog; Vindico; Compass Labs; RLM Finsbury; Spin
– *ESPN* Deportes: Freddy Rolón has been promoted to VP of ESPN (NYSE: DIS) Deportes Programming and Business Initiatives. He’ll lead the… Read more »
Sainsbury’s Supermarket Buying Media Vault To Launch Digital Content Retail
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J. Sainsbury’s is spending £1 ($1.56) million to buy Global Media Vault, a white-label digital entertainment distribution vendor, to power… Read more »
Pandora Learns The Hard Way, Mobile Ads Are Still Far From Being A Cash Cow
Being the most popular is not a good enough business model, it seems, when it comes to music mobile apps. Pandora, the music-streaming app,… Read more »
Spotify Needs U.S. Success After Losses Deepened In 2010
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Accounts filed with Companies House show the likely reason Spotify wanted to break America so badly. Read more »
RIM, Chasing Its Own iCloud, Buys NewBay For $100 Million
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Here’s an acquisition that has come unexpectedly, but not surprisingly: BlackBerry and PlayBook maker RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) has bought New Bay, a… Read more »
We7 Slims Losses On Tripled Turnover
The British music streaming service, We7, reduced its losses to about £3m last year as the Peter Gabriel-founded company managed to triple… Read more »
Jobs’ Legacy: An Actual Consumer Model For Digital Content
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Steve Jobs was the man who halted one media sector’s slide in to oblivion. Bringing others to a 21st Century cast in his likeness is a proje… Read more »
BBC Cuts: Nearly 2,000 Jobs To Go
The BBC will axe nearly 2,000 jobs as it looks to save £670m a year in long-awaited cost-cutting plans announced on Thursday morning. Read more »
Steve Jobs: A Tribute In Links And Quotes
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We’ve gathered together a selection of some of the stories and tributes been written for Steve Jobs in the last several weeks — with a part… Read more »
Why The Tech Industry Knows We’ll Never See Another Steve Jobs
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The tech industry is a young person’s game: reinvented every five years by those fortunate enough to make a name with a brilliant idea and t… Read more »
A Few Questions Remain About iCloud, iTunes Features With A Week To Go
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) chose to spend most of its time during its special event Tuesday recapping the company’s strengths and highlighting the n… Read more »
Apple’s iCloud Set For October 12th Debut, Will Have ‘Find My Friends’ App
Apple’s redesigned Internet services portal, iCloud, will arrive next week for iPhone and iPad users looking to sync music, contacts, and ot… Read more »
Apple’s ‘iTunes In The Cloud’ Gets European Go-Ahead
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is to announce a European rollout of the music storage service iCloud, with the U.K. expected to be the first major marke… Read more »
Your Guide To Some Key Copyright Cases On The Docket This Week
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While patent law has hogged the headlines in the last year, copyright law is making a splash this week with two cases at the Supreme Court a… Read more »
Why Rhapsody Needs More Than Just Napster To Thrive
Rhapsody yesterday announced the acquisition of long-term rival Napster from U.S. retailer Best Buy. Rhapsody will retire the Napster brand… Read more »
Microsoft Changes Subscription Plans; Zune HD Fading Away
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) isn’t alone in changing its subscription media pricing but the response to this one is likely to be a lot less vocal, i… Read more »
Rhapsody Is Acquiring Napster From Best Buy
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Streaming music service Rhapsody is acquiring Napster’s subscribers and “certain other assets,” the companies announced today. Napster is cu… Read more »
Digital Gains Can’t Halt UK Music Album Declines
Digital’s share of UK album sales has grown from a fifth to nearly a third in the last year, according to the British Phonographic Industry… Read more »
Pittman Gives Into Temptation; Takes Over As Clear Channel CEO
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It seemed like a no brainer back in November. If Bob Pittman was willing to return to radio after forays at MTV, AOL (NYSE: AOL), Time Warne… Read more »
Facebook-Spotify Love-In Over-Estimated Users’ Social Lives
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Inside Spotify, staff say their big U.S. delay left them “constipated”. Now that its American passage has been unblocked, Spotify is free to… Read more »
Pandora Smacked With Class Action For Revealing User Profiles
Pandora (NYSE: P) is the latest company to stumble into the minefield of privacy lawsuits that are blowing up all over the tech industry. A… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-29-11
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» The Key To The Kindle Fire: It’s Not Taking On Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Directly (paidContent)
» Murdoch’s ‘Daily’ Has 12… Read more »
Amazon’s Kindle Fire Will Sell Millions, But It Won’t Threaten Apple’s iPad
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Today Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) revealed its new Kindle lineup, including a touchscreen E Ink eReader and Amazon’s first color touchscreen tablet,… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-28-11
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» James Rubin Abruptly Departs Bloomberg (NYT/Media Decoder)
» Publishers’ Digital Download Hopes Rise Ahead Of Kindl… Read more »
We7 Cedes On-Demand Music Ground, Tries Pandora Model Instead
European music service We7 has finally completed the pivot with which it hopes to step out of the on-demand music shadow cast by Spotify and… Read more »
Mog’s International Plans Still Stalled After Nearly Two Years
Did we dream getting briefed by Mog.com, in January 2010, about its UK launch plans?
More than a year and a half on, the unlimited music se… Read more »
Is Facebook A Guardian Or Gatekeeper?
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As if to prove that Facebook’s F8 announcements were truly seismic we are still feeling the aftershocks now. Interestingly, though, it is Sp… Read more »
@ F8: Can Facebook’s Social Discovery Set Media Alight?
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) could double its own projected growth rate by feeding out viewers’ usage habits to Facebook, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings,… Read more »
@ F8: Facebook Unveils New Class Of Social Apps And Redesigned ‘Timeline’
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Facebook unveiled a new version of its social-media platform Thursday designed to help media companies and social-application developers enc… Read more »
@ F8: Highlights From Mark Zuckerberg’s Keynote Address
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It’s Facebook’s morning in Silicon Valley, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes the stage for the company’s F8 developer conference in San Francisco… Read more »
Facebook Overload: No Sign Of Letting Up Today
As the tech press converge to hear the latest from Facebook at its f8 developer confab today, millions of Facebook users are already grappli… Read more »
