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Diller Role in Live Nation Deal Draws Investor Ire

Source: Michael Ricci
February 13, 2009

Live Nation Inc.'s largest shareholder may oppose the proposed merger with Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. if Barry Diller has a leadership role in the new company.

“I'm very much against going into business with Mr. Diller" because of poor returns from companies he leads, Sam Shapiro, chairman of Shapiro Capital Management, said. The investment firm owns a 15 percent stake in Live Nation, according to Bloomberg data.

Diller is chairman of Ticketmaster and would hold that title at the new company, ...

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Remixable iPhone Album Points to Future

Source: All About Jazz
February 13, 2009

I've never been more sure of anything as when I predicted last August that iPhone apps would be the next hot way to release music.

Luckily for me, developers are living up to that prediction with all sorts of apps for interacting with music in ways that are impossible with a traditional release.

The most innovative iPhone app for distributing music I've seen this week is a 10-track iPhone app from the Grammy-nominated electronic artist Deadmau5, developed by an Irish ...

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YouTube Adds Download Options

Source: PC Magazine
February 13, 2009

Following hot on the heels of other Google properties such as Gmail and Calendar, YouTube today announced plans to offer offline viewing. The site is partnering with content providers to give users downloadable access to hosted videos under a Creative Commons license. Users can download partner videos by clicking the download link in the left-hand corner of the video. Some of the content will be offered for free and some will be monetized, depending on the wishes of the content ...

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Start Building Your Team Today

Source: HypeBot
February 13, 2009

FOR THE INDIE IN ALL OF US - Eventually an artist's music industry team will include a manager, agent, publicist, webmaster, internet marketing team, an accountant or business manager, a record label (or outsourced label team) and a whole roomful of lawyers.

But when you're just getting started, you can't attract or even afford any of those people. That doesn't mean that you don't need to start building your team now.

First and foremost, you have yourself. What are you ...

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Gomez Tour, Free Download

Source: JamBase
February 13, 2009

GOMEZ ANNOUNCES US SPRING TOUR PLUS THIRD BONNAROO APPEARANCE

Gomez ATO Records is proud to announce that Gomez will be embarking on a string of spring US dates in support of their soon-to-be released sixth studio album A New Tide. The band will kick off the tour at the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, TX, then head up the east coast to play a very special CD release show on March 31 at the Bowery Ballroom in New ...

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Keep the 'Net Open to All, Interest Groups Urge Congress

Source: PC Magazine
February 12, 2009

Several Washington-based interest groups called on Congress Wednesday to retain the open-access broadband provisions in the economic stimulus package. “Legislators understand that open access maximizes the economic benefit of publicly funded high speed networks," Markham Erickson, executive director of the Open Internet Coalition (OIC), said during a call with reporters. “Closed networks kill innovation; open networks nourish it." The Senate this week passed its version of the economic stimulus package; the House passed its bill in late January. The two ...

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Ticketmaster Live Nation Make Case for Merger

Source: Michael Ricci
February 12, 2009

Irving Azoff and Michael Rapino talk up advantages of a union of the firms.

One of the biggest challenges facing the architects of the Ticketmaster- Live Nation merger is making a case that the union can benefit fans and not just the companies' stockholders.

They'll have to argue that point to the Justice Department, which on Wednesday announced it will conduct an investigation to make sure the merger of the world's largest ticket seller with the biggest concert promoter and ...

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Twitter to Stay Free, for Now

Source: PC Magazine
February 12, 2009

That's what you get for “thinking out loud." The owners of micro-blogging service Twitter have been doing just that for some time, publicly mulling over ways to monetize their popular free service. Recent out loud speculation caused the blogosphere to explode, suggesting that the site was going to start charging users (companies, specifically) for the service, because, well, exploding is what the blogosphere does best. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone pulled back the reins on this one a bit this morning, ...

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