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9 Of 10 in U.S. Don't Listen to Music on Cell

Source: HypeBot
August 20, 2009

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9 out of 10 people in the U.S. never listen to music on their cell phones. That's the key finding in a new Forester Research study The Future Of Music On Cell Phones. In my opinion. the music and cellular industries have only themselves to blame.

Until the iPhone and a few outside apps the music experience on the cell pretty much sucked. Carriers asked people to pay a premium price for ...

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iTunes Sells 25% of All Us Music, 69% of Downloads

Source: HypeBot
August 20, 2009

But You Still Need To Press A CD A new NPD MusicWatch study shows that now iTunes leads the U.S. with 25% percent of total music sold including downloads and CDs That's up from 21% in '08 and 14% in '07. Walmart (including Walmart, Walmart.com, Walmart Music Downloads) remains in second position with 14% and Best Buy ranked third. iTunes continued to also solidify its lead in digital downloads sales grabbing ...

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Why iLike Sold to MySpace for so Little

Source: HypeBot
August 20, 2009

“The recent distressed exit of iLike reminds us of the need to build real value in our startups if we hope to create lasting companies and wealth...

If we look over the past fifteen years of webtime, we see a few categories emerge where real value was created:

Efficiency/Cost Reduction (DoubleClick, RedHat, PayPal, Craigslist) Monetizeable audience (Yahoo!, Google, AOL) Repeat customer commerce (Amazon, eBay, Netflix) Solve a pain point (Checkpoint, Postini) Create new markets (EA, Google) ...

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Music Software Popularity Index

Source: HypeBot
August 20, 2009

They've just released the second Music Software Popularity Index for the second quarter of 2009. The ten most popular music software products based on recent search engine activity, are:

PRODUCT (INDEX) 1. DigiDesign Pro Tools (13.3) 2. Steinberg Cubase (10.2) 3. FL Studio (8.3) 4. Cakewalk Sonar (7.1) 5. Apple Logic (4.5) 6. Adobe Audition (3.8) 7. Ableton Live (3.5) 8. Apple GarageBand (3.3) ...

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Official: MySpace Buys iLike

Source: HypeBot
August 20, 2009

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Owen Van Natta, the Chief Executive Officer of MySpace, has confirmed reports that MySpace has purchased music centered social networker iLike. Sources put the purchase price at a recession battered $20 million. “iLike users and the artist community should expect the iLike experience to be unaffected by the acquisition," MySpace said in a statement. iLike will remain headquartered in Seattle.

(FINAL UPDATE) The purchase is not part of the MySpace Music partnership with the four major labels so that ...

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Kind of Bloop: Miles Davis as Video Game Music

Source: Michael Ricci
August 20, 2009

Miles Davis probably never played Nintendo. It's technically possible; the genre-bending, stereotype-defying jazz legend lived until 1991, six years after the first Nintendo Entertainment System was released in North America. Who knows how the trumpet player spent his free time? He may have seen a video game, or even picked up a controller. But it's a pretty safe bet that he never stormed Bowser's castle or paused to appreciate the “piku-piku" sound that Mario made when he went down a ...

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Study Proves Download's Green Advantage

Source: HypeBot
August 19, 2009

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MySpace Close to Buying iLike for $20 Million

Source: HypeBot
August 19, 2009

MySpace is close to buying iLike for $20 million according to TechCrunch. Quick analysis: iLike is second only to MySpace in hosting pages for artists. Combining their assets would strongly solidify MySpace's position in music. How will Facebook react ? iLike is the dominate music discovery app on Facebook offering users a music option without the social networker having to create their own. But now it's top music app will be conrtolled ...

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