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Vevo to Launch December 8th
Major online music contender VEVO is set to launch the evening of December 8th. “The VEVO service at VEVO.com and at YouTube.com will go live in coordination with our launch event in New York on December 8th," read an email sent late Wednesday from the Universal, Google and Sony backed startup. VEVO is being created to ...
Reports: Myspace Buys imeem at Fire Sale Price
MySpace has completed the purchase of imeem, which has been rumored since Monday, at a price that could make venture capitalists wary of investing in any startup that requires music licensing. TechCrunch puts the purchase price at just $1 million. Imeem's debt is also being assumed and some assets are not included in the deal, say ...
AOL to Lay off a Third of Its Workforce
NEW YORK, NY - Web company AOL plans to cut one-third of its workforce, or about 2,500 jobs, in an effort to trim some $300 million in annual costs as part of its planned spin-off from Time Warner Inc. The struggling Web pioneer, which is slated to become an independent company focused primarily on advertiser-supported content, ...
Hulu Nabs Norah Jones and EMI
EMI Music becomes the first major label group to pact with Hulu, the popular U.S. online video service that offers TV shows and movie. EMI will offer concerts and videos from artists on its labels including Virgin, Capitol and Blue Note. The relationship kicks off today with exclusive content from Norah Jones whose new album “The ...
Myspace Music Overhauls Charts
MySpace has overhauled its music charts. Following a month after the addition of their Artist Dashboard, the new MySpace Music Charts are part of an effort to provide artists and users with more data and discovery options. “Over these past few months we've gone under the hood to take a closer look at the intelligence underlining ...
MySpace in Talks to Buy imeem
Does The Move Clear The Way For A MySpace Subscription Service? MySpace is in late stage negotiations acquire imeem, according to several sources, much like social networker bought iLike just months ago. MySpace and imeem are each struggling in their own way: MySpace with declining visitors and imeem with an unsustainable business model. But will the ...
Faceboook Restricts iLike App
Social Networking Wars Heat Up Now that iLike owned by rival MySpace, Facebook is restricting some features of the iLike app on it pages. The move is bound to be unpopular with the 12 million users that have made iLike the #1 music app on Facebook. Over the last few days Facebook users who had installed ...
Google Now Translates on the Fly
Google this week has issued a number of feature upgrades to its Translate service. The site now lets users translate text instantly, as they type, without having to hit the Translate button. The application will also “Romanize" text so users can read it phonetically in English. This new feature works for all of Google Translate's non-Roman ...
iTunes Gets More Linkable
Apple has changed the links generated on its iTunes store to be directed to a new iTunes Preview site which gives consumers the option of previewing music without launching the full iTunes application. Links to the iTunes Preview page can be grabbed via the store's “Copy Link" feature. Until know, if you didn't have iTunes installed ...
Which Samartphone Should You Be Developing an App For? Think Again...
Worldwide Smartphone Sales to End Users in 3Q09 (Thousands of Units Company Sales Share (%) Sales Share (%) ...
