Just days after its LBO led by Thomas H. Lee Partners LP and Bain Capital Partners LLC gained shareholder approval, Clear Channel Communications Inc. has launched a major online radio...
How much advertising will people tolerate in exchange for free music? And is advertising more friendly to the ear if it's personally delivered by the artist? Startup music site operator...
Digital media company Federated Media Inc. is ready to introduce Crowdfire, a multimedia service that will host real-time, user-generated audio and video transmitted from live music events. According to a...
Although Web services that cater to live music fans are sprouting up everywhere, AOL Inc. has elected to build rather than buy as it enters the arena. The site's AOL...
The British Phonographic Industry may be celebrating a victory of sorts now that it has persuaded six Internet service providers to threaten customers known to have illegally shared music files,...
Reports from the U.K. indicate that six British ISPs have agreed to develop legal online music services in cooperation with a plan developed by the British government, beginning by mailing...
While digital music subscription services such as RealNetworks Inc.'s Rhapsody [RNWK] and Napster Inc. [NAPS] have augmented their services with DRM-free download stores in recent weeks, U.K.-based British Sky Broadcasting...
In between its teases about a new "product transition" expected in the fall, Apple Inc.'s [APPL] conference call Monday afternoon revealed updated statistics and trends about the company's music hardware...
Venture-backed social music site and widget developer iLike Inc. today introduced several new features, including an advertising platform for live music promoters and streaming-song functionality powered by Rhapsody, the subscription...
Former AOL chairman and CEO Steve Case has invested in Hungry Machine Inc., the publisher of LivingSocial.com, a social media startup that enables users to post reviews and opinions about...
In the upcoming issue of Billboard, an editorial by attorney Steven Masur discusses mobile marketing techniques and the relevance of anti-spam regulation. While we're growing accustomed to Web marketing services...
Shares in music subscription service provider Napster Inc. [NAPS] have lost so much value that its cash assets may now be worth more than its market capitalization, meaning that the...
CBS-owned social music site and streaming radio provider Last.fm Ltd. relaunched this morning with a variety of new features. The redesign includes an enhanced music player and personal music library,...
Cell phone entertainment provider SendMe Mobile Inc. has inked its third content distribution deal with a major label, adding ringtones, pictures and other material from Warner Music Group Corp. [WMG]...
Recent attention for musicians' marketing technology developer Topspin Media Inc. suggests that the market is now maturing for services that help artists interact directly with fans as they distribute music...
Following on my earlier post Tuesday morning, I spoke with TuneUp Inc. CEO Gabe Adiv. He clarified a few points: TuneUp licensed Gracenote Inc.'s own digital audio fingerprinting technology for...
"Tap Tap Revenge," a music game for Apple Inc.'s iPhone that borrows from "Guitar Hero," "Rock Band" and "Dance Dance Revolution," has caught on with 250,000 early-adopting music fans with...
If you've ever tried to rip a homemade mix CD into your iTunes, you've probably got a bunch of files with names like "Track 01" waiting to surprise you the...
The striking new video for Radiohead's "House of Cards" was constructed entirely from data culled from laser scanning systems -- data that is now available for you to tinker with...
As people queue up to buy new 3G iPhones, editorially driven music recommendation service Pandora Media Inc. has introduced an application that could help them pass the time: a free...
A day after independent music label negotiator Merlin warned its artists that social music site Last.fm Ltd. had balked at compensating artists for past infringements, both sides said they remain...
Hours after CBS-owned Last.fm Ltd. said it would begin paying royalties to unsigned artists through its newly-launched Artist Royalty Program, independent music rights negotiator Merlin has issued a bulletin to...
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