Pandora Website Revamp Bets On Turning ‘Listeners’ Into ‘Viewers’
Internet radio provider Pandora is primarily known for its mobile apps, but as it looks to build up its ad offerings, it’s overhauled its we… Read more »
Report: Pandora Prepping A Move In To China, Looking For Local CEO
The streaming subscription music service Pandora (NYSE: P) is reportedly head-hunting a capable China-area CEO ahead of a Pandora service la… Read more »
AOL’s Levick Is Spotify’s New Chief Advertising Officer
A couple of months after being jettisoned in an executive restructure, former AOL (NYSE: AOL) global advertising president Jeff Levick has s… Read more »
Mog And Rdio Ape Spotify By Adding Freemium
Within a few hours of each other, Mog and then Rdio announced they will add free-to-play tiers to their subscription online music services,… Read more »
Frank Meehan Steps Down As INQ CEO; Co-Founder Ken Johnstone Takes Over
Frank Meehan is stepping down as the CEO of INQ, the Hutchison-owned mobile phone maker that has been a trailblazer — if a very small one -… Read more »
Symbian Lost As Many Users As Android Gained In Europe, Says ComScore
photo: Cape Town, Western Cape Province, South Africa
Interesting stats out today from comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) that underscore just how clear the threat is to Nokia (NYSE: NOK) from Android: the r… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 9-12-11: Google/Oracle, Apple/HTC Patents; Amazon; Adobe
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A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Amazon is taking one more step to enrich its content offerings; it’s reporte… Read more »
Google Music Beta Now On iOS Through The Magic Of The Mobile Web
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has decided to bring its Music Beta service to iOS users via the mobile Web, launching a new application Thursday that l… Read more »
T-Mobile, Orange Reboot Their Mobile TV Services In UK
Mobile TV has for years been one of the great white hopes for mobile operators looking for new lines of revenue from their data networks –… Read more »
Orange Duets With Spotify Competitor Deezer On New UK Mobile Music Service
Another mobile operator is taking a crack at the streaming music market: France Telecom’s Orange is partnering with Deezer — France’s answe… Read more »
Mobile Gadgets Boost 7digital Music Sales
Digital music seller and white-label store 7digital is finding growth in its new dual strategy of offering mobile apps and preloading them o… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-01-11
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» Hulu Japan Launches WIth Movies, TV From CBS (NYSE: CBS), Sony (NYSE: SNE), Fox (NSDQ: NWS) & More But No Ads (paidContent)
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Deezer Streaming Music Service Launching In UK
They may not have produced a band as big as The Beatles, and may bear some responsibility for the musical output of Claude Francois, but the… Read more »
Streaming Or Not, Apple’s iTunes Match Seems To Offer Advantages Of Both
To stream or not to stream? That is the question; whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of a flaky wireless connect… Read more »
Sony Kisses Qriocity Branding Goodbye, Forms Sony Entertainment Network
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Many consumers were never completely sure of the correct way to pronounce it, and it has had mixed success as a household name synonymous wi… Read more »
War Games Offset Music Decline For Vivendi
French entertainment and telecoms company Vivendi (EPA: VIV) has reported a strong first half, with record sales of its Activision (NSDQ: AT… Read more »
HTC, Sony Launch Tablets In Bid To Take A Bite Out Of Apple’s iPad Reign
The Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPad controls around 80 percent of the tablet market, which has seen just in the last month one high-profile casualty… Read more »
comScore: Just Over One-Third Of U.S. Consumers Use Smartphones
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Everyone likes to talk about the boom in smartphone use, but the reality is that even in the most advanced markets, there is still a long wa… Read more »
Updated: New iOS 5 Beta Adds To iCloud Streaming Confusion
It looked like one of the mysteries of Apple’s new iTunes Match service has been solved as developer preview versions of the software make a… Read more »
Nokia Keeps Its Eye On The Ball, Puts Design Front And Center
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Analysts often talk about the growth of the smartphone market based on which software OS is selling the best, but there is another way to lo… Read more »
Pandora’s Kennedy: We Will Gradually Increase Audio Ad Inventory
For the most part, Pandora’s quarterly numbers show a company headed in the right direction, with revenue numbers up substantially along wit… Read more »
Pandora Revenues Jump Triple Digits; Chance Of Breaking Even In 2012
Pandora (NYSE: P), which has seen its stock price battered since the brief euphoria that surrounded its IPO pricing back in June, posted tri… Read more »
RIM Breaks Social Ground With Its New BBM Music Service
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It’s taken a little while, but it looks like RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) might have finally woken up and smelled the coffee in the social media world a… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 8-23-11: RIM; Apple iPhone; Erply; HP; Riots; Patents
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» RIM launched three new BlackBerry devices today, extensions of its Curve ran… Read more »
Foursquare Adds Checkins For Movies, Concerts, ESPN Sports
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Sometimes what’s important is what you’re doing, not where you are (I should write Hallmark cards, right?). If you’re going to the movies, f… Read more »
Music Publishers Settle With YouTube, As Other Defendants Fight On
While Viacom’s long-standing copyright lawsuit against YouTube has gotten the most press attention, there’s actually a second suit going as… Read more »
Can HTC’s $300M Stake In Beats Electronics Crack Apple’s Music Stronghold?
HTC is taking one more strategic investment in digital content, this time in music. The company today is expected to announce that it is mak… Read more »
UK Music Industry Revenue Down 4.8 Percent
photo: David Shankbone
Plummeting CD sales, the ongoing toll of digital piracy and a lack of big name acts on tour fuelled a £189m drop in UK music revenues last… Read more »
Welcome To America, Spotify. Here’s Your Patent Lawsuit.
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Every company doing anything interesting in the tech sector these days gets sued for patent infringement-it’s practically a rite of passage.… Read more »
Wall Street Analysts Like Pandora, Investors Not So Sure
Pandora (NYSE: P) shares popped nearly four percent in pre-market trading Monday after several analysts issued bullish research reports on t… Read more »
Video: Spotify’s Daniel Ek: ‘Ownership Is Great But Access Is The Future’
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) wants to organize the world’s information. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says his company’s goal is “to have all the world’s mus… Read more »
‘The Daily’ Launches A New Version; Hopes For Assist From Spotify
Another News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). tabloid is making news today and this time it has nothing to do with Parliament or police. The Daily is out w… Read more »
Access Industries Closes $3.3 Billion Purchase Of Warner Music Group
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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 »
Spotify Launch Sponsors Pay $1 Million Each
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We spoke with an executive very close to Spotify and several advertising executives to understand the company’s strategy behind its hybrid a… Read more »
Baidu Signs Label Deal For Ting Music But Still Links To Pirated MP3s
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While everyone’s attention was focused on Spotify finally launching services in the U.S., another online music milestone has been reached on… Read more »
Netlog Pulls A Facebook, Signs Music Partnership With We7
The idea of social networks as a place to listen to and share music is one that MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) should have owned. But its gradual decli… Read more »
Indie Labels File Suit Against Limewire, Say They Got Stiffed In Settlement
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Earlier this year, Limewire agreed to pay the major record labels $105 million to settle claims that it induced its users to break copyright… Read more »
Want A Spotify Invite From Klout? The Magic Number Is…20
Can you get an early Spotify invitation? It all depends on how cool you are, or at least that’s what Klout wants you to think. The site, whi… Read more »
Pandora Shares Fall Sharply, Then Recover, As Spotify Hits the U.S.
Pandora (NYSE: P) may have gone public just in the nick of time. With rival Spotify’s long-awaited U.S. arrival finally at hand, Pandora sha… Read more »
Let’s Get Ready To Rumble: Spotify USA Is Finally Open For Business
After more literally years of build up, Swedish freemium music service Spotify finally opened its virtual doors in the U.S. today with three… Read more »
