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YouTube to Acquire Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion
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HypeBot
Google's video streaming service YouTube has reached an agreement to acquire the popular video game streaming website Twitch in a deal reportedly worth more than $1 billion. The deal is part of YouTube's increasing emphasis in live video. According to Variety, the all-cash offer is expected to be officially announced soon. If it comes to fruition, the acquisition will be the largest in the history of YouTube since the company was acquired by Google in 2006. Based in San Francisco, ...
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Rdio Joins Growing BandPage Artist Content Delivery Network
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HypeBot
Rdio has partnered with BandPage to integrate musicians’ content into the music streamer's artist stations and artist profiles. The partnership provides opportunities for musicians to grow their fan base and increase revenue while powering new features on Rdio. BandPage powers the online profiles of 500,000 musicians and delivers select content to major music sites including Clear Channel, Google, VEVO, Live Nation, Xbox Music, Rhapsody and LyricFind. Artists can set up their BandPage Profile free, which includes music, tour dates, photos, ...
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Crowdtilt Expands DIY Crowdfunding and Ecommerce with "Sell Something"
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HypeBot
Crowdtilt launched as a way for groups to pool money and has grown into a multifaceted service for pooling money, fundraising and selling things all of which share elements of crowdfunding. Earlier this year they launched Crowdtilt Open, an open source platform for DIY crowdfunding, and yesterday they launched Sell Something, a platform for selling anything that uses a crowdfunding approach to determining demand. For a limited time, it's also free to use with no commission or credit card fees. ...
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Alan Parsons Wants to Eliminate MP3s, Slated to Speak at Subscribed '14
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Alan Parsons of The Alan Parsons Project has a long history of success but he's faced with a very different musical world today. One of his current projects is the elimination of the MP3 which he's begun with plans to release his own lower cost, higher quality downloads direct-to-fans. He's also set to speak at Subscribed 2014, a unique conference focused on the “subscription economy" which is increasingly important to musicians in the form of streaming services, whether one stop ...
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Epidemic Sound Music Library Receives $5 Million Series a Funding Round
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Swedish-based Epidemic Sound is a music library that pays composers an upfront fee offering licensees subscriptions for non-exclusive use as well as innovative approaches such as licensing by the second. Much of their activity is in Europe but they've also cut deals with MCNs such as Disney's Maker Studios. Apparently it's working well enough that VC firm Creandum has funded a $5 million Series A round. Epidemic Sound appears to be breaking new ground in music licensing though I don't ...
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Universal, Warner, Sony Invest $9 Million in Shazam
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Shazam has landed investments from the world's 3 largest label groups, Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music have each invested $3 million in the music and audio identification app. Shazam is currently valued at $500 million, making their collective stake less than 2%. Music tech investments by the big three music groups, who are hoping to both diversify their portfolios and have more control over their digital destinies. Spotify and Beats are both partly funded by label investments. This deal ...
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Vince Guaraldi and Charlie Brown
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
American post-war snark dates back to October 2, 1950. On that date, Charles M. Schultz's Peanuts comic strip was syndicated by Universal, and Charlie Brown, the strip's protagonist, evolved into an upbeat punching bag for a wide range of recalcitrant characters ranging from an annoying girl to a wiseguy dog. Schultz had tapped into the social network of pre-teens and its pecking order, unleashing a milky form of what would grow richer and darker in the '50s—the youthful chiding of ...
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Jazz St. Louis to Announce Bistro Renovations, Perhaps More?
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Jazz St. Louis has scheduled a press conference for 10:00 a.m. tomorrow (Tuesday, May 13) at Jazz at the Bistro to announce what's being called a “multi-million dollar project for Grand Center," a “major initiative to change the face of St. Louis arts," and “a major project which reaffirms St. Louis as one of the most important arts and creative cities in the country and around the world." The announced participants in the press conference include St. Louis Mayor Francis ...
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