Tuesday’s Music 2.0 Briefing: News From Microsoft, Cycloop, imeem, Rhapsody & More
>>> Microsoft is adding to its music portfolio by buying mobile music firm MusicWave. (press
release) Investment analysts like the Motley Fool are less than impressed. (Microsoft’s Sound Of Garbled Music).
>>> Today marks the official debut of the new Zunes and yesterday Microsoft announced that it was adding customization from 20 top artists at no extra costs. (OurDigitalMusic)
>>> Former Hispanic social music site Cyloop has gone multi-lingual and added on demand full song streaming via new deals with The Orchard and WMG. (Miami Herald)
>>> imeem and Rhino team for a promo and contest for the new Led "Mothership" (press release)
>>> Former Real/Rhapsody PR head Matt Graves has joined imeem as VP of Marketing Communications.
>>> Rhapsody and Wendy’s have teamed for up to 100 million songs. (press release)
>>> As rumored, Radiohead‘s latest will get physical release in North America via ATO. (AP)
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>>> Jeff Leeds takes a close look at new "360 Degree" record deals that take as much 30% of all of an artist’s revenues. (NY Times article and audio)