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MySpace in Talks to Buy imeem

Source: HypeBot
November 18, 2009

Does The Move Clear The Way For A MySpace Subscription Service?

MySpace is in late stage negotiations acquire imeem, according to several sources, much like social networker bought iLike just months ago. MySpace and imeem are each struggling in their own way: MySpace with declining visitors and imeem with an unsustainable business model. But will the whole be greater than the sum of the parts?

Before we find out, imeem's board will almost certainly be forced to accept a fire ...

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Faceboook Restricts iLike App

Source: HypeBot
November 18, 2009

Social Networking Wars Heat Up

Now that iLike owned by rival MySpace, Facebook is restricting some features of the iLike app on it pages. The move is bound to be unpopular with the 12 million users that have made iLike the #1 music app on Facebook. Over the last few days Facebook users who had installed the iLike app received this message:

“Due to upcoming Facebook changes, your Music data on Facebook won't show on your profile and you'll ...

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Google Now Translates on the Fly

Source: PC Magazine
November 18, 2009

Google this week has issued a number of feature upgrades to its Translate service. The site now lets users translate text instantly, as they type, without having to hit the Translate button. The application will also “Romanize" text so users can read it phonetically in English. This new feature works for all of Google Translate's non-Roman languages, save for Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian. Arabic, Persian, and Hindi, meanwhile, can now be typed as they sound and then converted to their ...

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iTunes Gets More Linkable

Source: HypeBot
November 18, 2009

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Which Samartphone Should You Be Developing an App For? Think Again...

Source: HypeBot
November 18, 2009

Worldwide Smartphone Sales to End Users in 3Q09 (Thousands of Units

Company

Sales

Share (%)

Sales

Share (%)

Nokia

16,156.4

39.3

1 5,472.3

42.3

Zenph Gets $10.7m for Musical Re-Performances

Source: HypeBot
November 18, 2009

Badly done cover versions may soon become a thing of the past. Why am I not rejoicing?

Zenph Sound Innovations has created a technology that turns music into data “to understand and precisely recreate musical performances" and secured $10.7 million to develop and promote it.

The processes turns audio recordings into data sets. Zenph captures musical nuance, with details about musicians' note choice, volume, touch and articulations in micro-second timings. With this data, a virtual artist can play re-performances, precisely ...

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M Music and Musicians: A New Magazine Launches in the Middle of the Recession

Source: HypeBot
November 18, 2009

M Music & Musicians, a new multi-genre print music magazine, is set to to launch in January. In addition to traditional newsstand sales, M will be shipped with customer purchases made through major online musical gear retailer Sweetwater guaranteeing a built-in distribution of 160,000 starting with the first issue. M MUSIC & MUSICIANS Songs inspire us. Music moves us. M connects us. Published 8 times per year, the magazine will ...

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U.S. Consumers Less Willing to Pay for Online News

Source: PC Magazine
November 18, 2009

Consumers are willing to pay about $5 per month to receive online news, but readers in the United States are less likely to pay up than their European counterparts, and a subscription model will not exactly be the newspaper industry's saving grace, according to a Monday report from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). BCG interviewed 5,000 people in nine countries to gauge their interest in paying for online news content. Consumers in Finland were most likely to pay for news ...

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