Music Industry News: Operation Payback Slows, Yahoo Layoffs Loom, Hard Work Of Genius & More

• Yahoo is reportedly about to lay off 10-20% of it's workforce. (TC) 
• Will This Holiday Be As Fruitful As Years Past? (DailyRind) 
  
• Ping adds Twitter integration, but still no Facebook… (Hypebot) 
• The Music Industry Attracts Investors To MIDEM. (Press)
• Operation Payback: That's All (for now), Folks. (Slyck)
• Harmonix Sale Signals Meltdown of ‘Plastic Instrument’ Biz. (Wired)

More Music Industry News & Commentary:

• Check out the live Q&A at Noon ET today via ustream with Tunecore CEO Jeff Price here.
• CD Baby artists now receive discounted pricing on Ariel Publicity's suite of PR services including the ReviewYou package.
• Congrats to Danny Dee Aguayo on landing a great gig as assistant to Topsin CEO Ian Rogers. He siteth at the right hand of…
  
• BitTorrent Inventor Bram Cohen On BitTorrent’s Future. (TorrentFreak)
• Kanye West, George W. Bush And The Problem With Feelings. (Record)
• The New World Order of The Music Business. (TheNextWeb)  
• Time banks and the new creative economy. From musicians to health workers, huge numbers of people can benefit from the skill-sharing and cooperation that timebanking generates. (Guardian) 
• D.I.Y. Musician: Get Out There. (EMRemix) 
• No You Can't. Is genius a simple matter of hard work? Not a chance. (WSJ) 
• Digital distributor The Orchard has upgraded its proprietary Release Builder product to add muti-album uplaods and on the fly compilations and changes. 
  
• Analytics firm Next Big Sound has partnered with SoundExchange to deliver $741,000 in unclaimed royalties.