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Mobile Music Gaining Fans Says New Study

Source: HypeBot
March 27, 2009

A new KPMG and Mobile Entertainment Forum study shows that three quarters of US consumers are happy with their experience downloading and listening to songs on their mobile phone.

21% of the U.S. respondents and 30% globally have purchased songs at least once on their phones in the past year. 84% of US and 66% of global purchasers said they were satisfied with the downloading and listening experience. That's more that 3 times the 26% who were satisfied with mobile ...

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Are the Major Labels Killing imeem?

Source: HypeBot
March 27, 2009

Late last year, rumors began circulating that imeem was in trouble. Ad revenue simply wasn't meeting the projections needed to pay labels the per stream rates agreed to. It was said that imeem was burning through the cash that Sequoia and Warner Music had given them at a rapid rate. Then the company began openly searching for a buyer. Along the way, the global economic meltdown hit, further slowing both the flow of online ad dollars and capital investments.

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Thruyou Mashup Turns Youtube into Funk Machine

Source: All About Jazz
March 26, 2009

Five years ago he'd never heard of the “godfather of soul," James Brown. Now an Israeli mashup artist is basking in the spotlight after making the funkiest tracks on the internet, using YouTube clips of musicians who've never met each other.

Earlier this month, Ophir Kutiel, aka Kutiman, released seven videos made by mixing and matching found footage for his project, called ThruYou. The clever musical mashups have since been viewed more than a million times, and Kutiman is basking ...

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The Future of Broadband: Building It Out

Source: All About Jazz
March 26, 2009

Portfolio.com investigates whether it’s possible to design a nervous system for the planet without having a nervous breakdown.

The Internet is 75 times larger than it was just five years ago, and shows no sign of stopping until every last person on the planet has, effectively, infinite bandwidth. Despite the burden of surging traffic and attacks on its very foundations, the internet has yet to crash. But give the world a chance; it’s working on it.

Spurred by a new ...

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Twitter to Offer Business Accounts in Bid for Revenue

Source: All About Jazz
March 26, 2009

Twitter is taking a much-anticipated first-step in its quest to parlay popularity into revenue by offering business customers an expanded range of fee-based services.

The company is preparing to offer commercial accounts in which corporations and other types of businesses pay a fee to receive an enhanced version of Twitter, a free service that allows people to send short, 140-character text messages to their network of friends. “We think there will be opportunities to provide services to commercial entities ...

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Twitter T

Source: Michael Ricci
March 25, 2009

There's Twitter the company, and twitter the medium

Leo Laporte at the controls during a recent episode of This Week in Tech (TWiT). In the background is Digg founder Kevin Rose. Credit: insidetwit / Flickr Last year, Leo Laporte became a Twitter quitter.

The host of one of Silicon Valley’s most popular podcasts was none too excited that of all the names in the world, the burgeoning message service had picked one that hit piercingly close to home. The online ...

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Warner Music Group Pulls Music from Last.FM

Source: All About Jazz
March 25, 2009

Warner Music Group has confirmed that its music is no longer available through Last.fm's on-demand music streaming service.

Last.fm users can still stream music from Warner's artists via their artist-based radio stations (see below), because those songs are licensed under a different deal. However, Last.fm users will no longer be able to stream songs on-demand from albums Neil Young, Nickelback, Death Cab for Cutie, or any other artist recorded for the label, as Silicon Alley Insider discovered.

“I can confirm ...

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Grooveshark Launched a New Web Property

Source: All About Jazz
March 25, 2009

Grooveshark launched a new web property today, this time with the artist in focus.

Grooveshark Artists will complement our on-demand streaming property (Grooveshark.com), and we believe it will help artists leverage their content in new and exciting ways not possible until now.

We've lined up numerous unique partnerships and integrated tools to offer in addition to home brewed real-time analytics, catalog management and innovative promotions. These include ticket sales with Showclix, fund raising alongside SellaBand, interactive storefronts via Bandcamp, lyric ...

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