Technology News

Pandora Tops 40m Users, Attracts New Ad $'s

Source: HypeBot
December 18, 2009

Pandora topped 40 million total registered users in early December - a number roughly equivalent to the combined population of the 30 largest U.S. cities. 20 million of those users were added in 2009 alone. In December, Pandora has been adding 600,000 new users wach week half of whom come from mobile.

Pandora grabbed 44% of all internet radio listening hours in October with average daily users exceeding 3 million of which 1 million accessing via mobile. Pandora's iPhone user ...

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Is Amazon MP3 Headed for the Cloud?

Source: HypeBot
December 18, 2009

Many in the digital music space believe that Apple's purchase of Lala is an indication that iTunes will soon be helping consumers move their music into the cloud for everywhere access. So yesterday's announcement that Amazon had added media streaming to its online content delivery service CloudFront caught my eye.

Amazon CloudFront is primarily in the business delivering content for other online media companies like video sharing site Vidy; and the new feature enables streaming of audio and video, providing ...

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User Growth Slows Across Major Social Networks

Source: HypeBot
December 17, 2009

MySpace may be experiencing the greatest decline, but unique user visits are flat or declining slightly across most major social networks. Twitter, Facebook and MySpace are each aggressively rolling out new features, but none have yet had a major impact on traffic.

Don't extrapolate from this data that social networking is dying. Rather,it may have just reached a user saturation point where any further growth comes more slowly and at the expense of a competitor. For now, however, mass social ...

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Tunecore Signs with Myspace Music

Source: HypeBot
December 17, 2009

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It's A Smart Addition For TuneCore, But Is It Worth It For Artists?

TuneCore artists can now share in the ad revenue generated when their songs are streamed on MySpace Music, thanks to a new deal between the companies. This marks the first time that TuneCore has offered its flat fee distribution customers access to an ad supported streaming service, and comes on the heels of indie licensing organization Merln's hard fought battle with MySpace ...

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Monster's Miles Davis Tribute Headphones Honor the Definition of Cool

Source: Michael Ricci
December 17, 2009

Monster, renowned for its many advanced consumer electronics accessories and fast becoming one of the world's leading manufacturers of high-performance headphones, is proud to announce the upcoming introduction of the world's first audio hardware product to bear the official name and signature of legendary trumpeter Miles Davis - the new “Miles Davis Tribute" high-performance in-ear headphones. Created in conjunction with Miles Davis Properties, LLC, the new headphones are being offered in a individually numbered limited edition. Adding value to this ...

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TunceCore Signs with MySpace Music

Source: HypeBot
December 16, 2009

It's A Smart Addition For TuneCore, But Is It Worth It For Artists?

TuneCore artists can now share in the ad revenue generated when their songs are streamed on MySpace Music, thanks to a new deal between the companies. This marks the first time that TuneCore has offered its flat fee distribution customers access to an ad supported streaming service, and comes on the heels of indie licensing organization Merln's hard fought battle with MySpace on behalf of ...

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Myxer Ramps up Artist Services with Mobilestage

Source: HypeBot
December 16, 2009

Mobile music content provider Myxer has expanded its artist services offering with the launch of MobileStage, a mobile marketing suite that delivers music applications for iPhone, BlackBerry and Android, as well as:

As part of the app distribution service, Myxer will promote artist apps to its nearly 30 million customers. First up are BlackBerry apps for Pearl Jam and U2. ...

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Tunecore Begins Delivery of Music Content to MySpace Music

Source: Shore Fire Media
December 14, 2009

TuneCore--the world's largest distributor of labels, artists and music in the world - will begin delivery of music content to the MySpace Music platform on Thursday, December 17th. This enables any new or existing TuneCore artists to distribute their music via MySpace Music, the premiere music platform that empowers artists with monetization opportunities for their content via ad-supported streaming and affiliate download sales. About TuneCore: TuneCore is the largest distributor and has one of the highest revenue-generating music catalogs in ...

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