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Yahoo! Acquires Evntlive Concert Streaming Platform
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Yahoo! has acquired concert streaming platform EVNTLIVE. Founded by former Cisco CTO Judy Estrin, the EVNTLIVE team will now join Yahoo's video team working on Yahoo Music and Yahoo Screen. No details of the deal were announced, but the company had received $2.3 million in funding from Vint Cerf, Yogen Dalal, Dave House and others. After creating a beautiful interface and an impressive launch, EVNTLIVE failed to gain traction. In fact, no has had repeated success in paid concert streaming. The announcement came on ...
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Music Business Association Launches Music Tech Startup Network
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AAJ Staff
December 4, 2013 – The Music Business Association (Music Biz), formerly known as NARM and digitalmusic.org, has introduced the Music Startup Network in an effort to provide music entrepreneurs and content providers with all the resources they need to create and power profitable, legal music companies. It is the first product that Music Biz has introduced since its rebranding and reorganization in early October. Following in the footsteps of previous initiatives such as the Music Startup Academy educational series and ...
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Soundcloud Adds Explore with Trending Music and Lean Back Discovery
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Yesterday SoundCloud introduced Explore, a discovery feature that should help connect more listeners with artists using SoundCloud though a more prominent homepage position would be a nice touch. It's available on the web and on SoundCloud's Android app. No word yet on iOS availability but their iTunes listing promises “bigger updates" than their recent design refresh. To be honest, I've been checking out music on SoundCloud for what feels like a long time, at least in internet years, but I've ...
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The Echo Nest Expands Music Intelligence Platform to Digital Advertising
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The music you listen to could now help drive the ads you hear online. With the launch of Music Audience Understanding, clients of The Echo Nest can deliver targeted advertising using musical preferences to predict demographic and psychographic information without revealing other personal information. Broadcast radio advertising still totals $15 billion a year; and Music Audience Understanding gives online broadcasters new tool to attract more of those dollars. Initial customers of The Echo Nest's Music Audience Understanding tech include TargetSpot, ...
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Why Digital Consumer Companies Are a Poor Indicator of the Future of Music Tech Investment
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Last week Mark Mulligan shared his take on why Twitter was a stock worth watching to suggest the fate of public music offerings and to affect the perspectives of potential music tech startup investors. His argument is tempting but I honestly don't see non-music consumer stocks as good indicators and even if Twitter does well, I don't see that affecting music investors. Unfortunately the issue of music licensing seems to overwhelm even rational minds and the current uproar over lyrics ...
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Saxophonist/Composer Roger Aldridge Launches New Website
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Roger Aldridge
A selection of Roger Aldridge's original music can be heard at rogeraldridge.com. In addition, to recordings and videos, the new site includes the latest news about his music projects, biography, articles, and a page having a featured composition each week. One of the articles at Roger's site describes his concepts of writing for mid-size jazz ensemble. As he envisions it, a mid-size ensemble can be approached in fundamentally different ways than with a conventional big band. That is, going beyond ...
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The Echo Nest's Dynamic Music Data Adds Getty Images Premium Musician Photos
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The Echo Nest's Dynamic Music Data solution aggregates music news and content with Echo Nest music data to create a real-time feed. Customers include MTV, Nuance, the BBC and Yahoo Music. Now The Echo Nest is enriching the stream with curated photos from Getty for the top 10,000 musicians which are then available for licensing by publishers. Instead of making do with Wikipedia portraits and dated stock images, publishers can have updated, curated, tagged pics for their use. Yesterday The ...
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Got an Old iPhone? Create a Wireless Music System!
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By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Attention, Mac people who just bought or are about to receive a new iPhone. If your old iPhone is still fairly new, you don't have any kids yammering for an iPod Touch (that you want to give them), and you have no other reason to keep it, you should probably sell it. Thanks in part to the unfortunate phenomenon of iPhone theft — something that should eventually decrease with iOS 7's Activation Lock feature ...
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