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Official.FM Raises $8 Million to Expand D.I.Y. Musician Platform
Yesterday Hypebot called Geneva based Official.fm one of the 10 Smartest Startups At SF MusicTech. Now Official.fm has announced that they've received an additional $8 million in funding to build what they call “the world's most advanced do-it-yourself platform for music creators & content owners." No source of the funding was named. What is Offcial.fm? Official.fm ...
Highlights from SF Musictech: Tools, Tech, Revenue, Recommendation, Live and the Cloud
Plenty of solid discussion filled the walls of the Kabuki Hotel on Monday where the eighth SF MusicTech Summit was held. Strong panelists and bright attendees all contributed to meaningful dialogue that left those of us in attendance with lots to think about. Here were some of the highlights: Tools Dean Serletic of Music Mastermind shared that ...
Skype is Now More Valuable Than the Entire US Recording Industry...
Amount Microsoft paid for Skype, 2011: $8.5 billion. US-based Recording Industry Revenues, 2010: $6.85 billion. Technology eviscerates again? Skype was originally created by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis (among others), also the original brains and entrepreneurs behind Kazaa. The distributed, peer-to-peer architecture of Kazaa heavily informed the Skype architecture—in fact, the name Skype is a modification ...
musiXmatch Raises $3.7m for Lyrics API
Lyrics API announced today at SF Music Tech that it has raised $3.7 million in Series A funding from Francesco Micheli Associates. The funds wll enable musiXmatch to expand their lyrics offering whch the company says includes 5.3 million lyrics and features the first lyrics API to fully provide international rights management. Localized in more than ...
Rootmusic Upgrades Free and Paid BandPages Facebook App
RootMusic has released a major upgrade for both free and paid users of its BandPages Facebook app. BandPage is the social network's #1 music app with 150,000 musicians driving 22 million active monthly users. 50% of the top 100 artists on Facebook use BandPage, according to the company. BandPage Basic users now have access to free ...
Likester Helps Make Sense of Your Facebook Likes
2137 people Like a band on Facebook, but what does that mean? Who are all those Likers? If the Like band A, what else do they Like? How does 2137 Likes compare with other artists? Startup Likester hopes to answer those questions and more for both consumers (fans) and barnds (bands). Their consumer web site is ...
Mobile App $'s Soar. Will Music Grab It's Share?
Combined revenues from the four major mobile app stores: Apple, Google, Nokia and RIM will rise 77.7% in 2011 to $3.8 billion, with Apple grabbing 75% of the market, according to new IHS research. (Click on image to enlarge.) While sector numbers were not released, gaming apps generate the most revenue with music lagging far behind. ...
Nimbit Readies Upgrade of Direct to Fan Platform Free Private Beta Invites!
Nimbit is finalizing work on a new version of their NimbitFree direct-to-fan sales & marketing platform. While they're not quite ready to go live with it yet, the Nimbit team wants to broaden the scope of their private beta by letting you smart and music marketing savvy Hypebot readers in first to check it out. Just ...
Behind the Blogs: Wayward Musician
Welcome to version 2.0 of our series Behind the Blogs, in which we interview the bloggers and thinkers who are following the music business changes that affect us all. Mike Venti is careful about his choice of words. The man behind Wayward Musician understands that there is a very big difference between a hobbyist musician and ...
How to Use Storify to Share Story of Musical Events
Storify, the buzzed about web service whose goal is to “make stories using social media", is now in public beta and . I spent a bit of time playing around with Storify as a tool to focus on a music related event—the release of country music group Whiskey Myers' new album Firewater. My goal was to ...
