Spotify and Pandora (NYSE: P) may be the music brands people think of today when it comes to streaming services. But with only five million consumers using services like these today, there is clearly an opportunity for another player to emerge to try to pick up more. Enter a new…

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek took the stage at Spotify’s first-ever press conference to expand the music streaming service’s Facebook integration to a wider world of social networks and devices, arguing that sharing is the only thing that can save the music industry and stop piracy.

The local online ad marketplace has experienced two years of fairly flat revenues, but Borrell Associates says that the space is on the verge of a major rebound. The local researcher says that local digital advertising will rise 18 percent in 2012 to $18.5 billion, surpassing the traditional leader in…

Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) and Orange have long been rivals in mobile phone markets in Europe, but as growth slows down in the region, the two are, at least in part, taking somewhat different paths in their search for fresh revenues: Vodafone is increasingly looking at its investments in emerging markets,…

RealNetworks has chosen Thomas Nielsen as its new president and CEO, succeeding interim CEO Mike Lunsford. He starts next week and is intended to bring what RealNetworks’ chairman and founder Rob Glaser says is a strong digital product background to the company.

Bloomberg may still be battling with Comcast over better placement on its cable systems, but the financial news and information company is looking to claim to another screen for its live television broadcasts: the iPad. The company launched its latest free, ad-supported app in the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iTunes Store…

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, says it is the most-downloaded free music app in both the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) App Store and Android Market in the U.S., but that volume has…

Today’s big round of cuts announced by the BBC—it will lose some 2,000 jobs, order relocations for others, and make big changes to the programming schedule in order to cut 20 percent from the BBC budget—largely left digital assets at the corporation untouched. But that’s mainly because the BBC had…

Univision, the Spanish-language media giant, has opened a new front in the long-running battle over where and how people can make copies of digital media. This time the target is serial entrepreneur Michael Robertson and his DAR.fm service that lets users capture radio programs for later listening.

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.

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 Warner (NYSE: TWX) and his investment group, why stop at chairman of media and entertainment platforms for Clear Channel? (OTCBB: CCMO) Mark Mays was…

Seven months after Vivian Schiller was ousted as president and CEO of NPR, the public radio network has turned to a public broadcast veteran to take her place. Gary E. Knell will be leaving his post as CEO of the Sesame Workshop, the non-profit organization behind the long-running PBS children’s…

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 new complaint says the Internet radio provider violated the privacy of its Michigan subscribers and demands it pay each of them at least $5,000.

Just a few weeks after landing in the U.S., European-based streaming music service Spotify has gotten an immediate shot in the arm by being selected as one of Facebook’s partners in its new “Open Graph” design. The service, which comes with free, ad-supported and paid options, will now have the…

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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 website in the more versatile HTML5 mode to make it more attractive to listeners and display advertisers. But the big question is whether it can turn…

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Sirius XM (NSDQ: SIRI) likes to tout its large and diverse offerings—though sometimes it’s hard to tell if the company is talking about its channel line-up or its lawsuits. This week brings new developments in three cases against the satellite radio seller.

For the most part, Pandora’s quarterly numbers show a company headed in the right direction, with revenue numbers up substantially along with the population of active listeners. But questions linger about whether music listeners will pay attention to display advertising and just how many audio ads will users put up…