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Pandora IPO to Value Company at $1 Billion
(UPDATED) Pandora has filed an updated S-1 that shows they will be pricing stock at $7 to $9 per share during its IPO on the The New York Stock Exchange. That puts the total valuation of Pandora over $1 billion. According to the filing, Pandora hopes to raise about $140 million in the offering. The latest ...
CBS to Relaunch mp3.com as Indie Music Companion Site to Last.FM
MP3.com is reportedly being relaunched at the end of this month as a site for unsigned and independent music. CBS acquired the site, launched in 1997 by Michael Robertson, when it bought CNET in 2008; and now plans to leverage it alongside its Last.fm online music property. MP3.com “is an interesting brand as it has global ...
5 Reasons Free is Hurting Us All
Few question the power of free music to garner new fans and reward existing ones. But marketing guru John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing is worried that too much free has side effects. Free everything has “created an environment that may actually be hurting the seeker of quality information more than the spreader of quality information, ...
Simfy Beats Spotify, Everyone Else to Facebook
Quietly, streaming music service simfy has beaten Spotify and other rumored music services onto Facebook. For now the simfy Player for Facebook is only available to German, Austrian, and Swiss users, but the company says it will expand into other territories in the third quarter and offer the Facebook player in those countries as well. You ...
Crowd Factory Marketing Apps Gain Traction with Major Music Companies
Crowd Factory, a software as a service company focused on social marketing tools, recently introduced a new function for their Social Offer service that enables quick creation of landing pages for group deals and social campaigns on the web and Facebook. This rounds out their suite of “crowd-powered marketing apps" already in use at a number ...
Lady Gaga Says Albums Only Worth 99 Cents, Not Every Artists Needs a Label [video]
When if asked if her new album wasn't worth more than 99 cents that Amazon charged, Lady Gaga responded, “No. I absolutely do not, especially for MP3s and digital music. It's invisible. it's in space. If anything, I applaud a company like Amazon for equating the value of digital versus the physical copy, and giving the ...
Mark Mulligan: How Zuckerberg is Using Music to Keep Facebook from 'Doing a Myspace'
This guest post comes from independent music analyst Mark Mulligan.. Facebook is rumoured to be on the verge of integrating a number of music services including Spotify into its platform. The 'when will Facebook take on iTunes' question is one which refuses to go away, but it's the wrong question to ask. Mark Zuckerberg doesn't want ...
SoundCloud Adds Tumblr Integration
SoundCloud just added easy integration with popular micro-blogging platform Tumblr. SoundCloud claims more than four million sound creators and Tumblr hosts nearly 20 million blogs. DETAILS & NEW FEATURES: SoundCloud users can now record on-the-fly and share it to their Tumblr blog using SoundCloud's mobile and desktop apps or directly from the browser. Possible applications for ...
Music Gets Mobile: 34% of U.S. Broadband Users Access Music on Their Phone
While 50% of U.S. broadband households prefer the computer as their digital music access point, the proliferation of smartphones, connected devices and cloud-based services are changing that. In 2010, 34% of U.S. broadband consumers were using their mobile phone as a music player, up from 9% in 2007, according to a new Parks Associates report. That's ...
Documentary to Chronicle the Rise and Fall of Tower Records [video]
Tower Records was cultural icon. If you loved music and lived anywhere near one, Tower was your clubhouse. I remember visiting ToweR on my very first day in Boston to start college. But in 2004, the company filed for bankruptcy and by the end of 2006, founder Russ Solomon had shut nearly every one of its ...
