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More Music News For Tues. 7/21 – Wall St, Yahoo, WMG + YouTube, Reznor & More

  • More then a week of strong days on Wall Street have been good to music and music tech stocks.  Watch for earnings reports today from Yahoo!, Apple and more. You can track music stocks throughout the day with the Hypebot stocks widget in the right hand column.
  • Today Yahoo released totally redesigned home page that combines Yahoo's collection of online content with direct access to social networking services like MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. (NYT)
  • Warner Music and YouTube still talking on deal. (Reuters)
  • Trent Reznor ends his Twitter legacy by deleting his account. (Rolling Stone)
  • Tenenbaum circus enters big top next week; what to expect. – The second US trial of a file swapping defendant begins next Monday in Boston. Ars previews the arguments to be used by graduate student Joel Tenenbaum and by the recording industry. (ars)
  • Metallica’s Lars Ulrich is “proud” of killing Napster. (ZeroPaid) Thank gos he's not really that powerful…
  • Can Print Be The Next Vinyl? (Techdirt)
  • Verizon has slashed the Blackberry Storm price to $99 to better compete with the iPhone. (Information Week)
  • "Free…Feels-Like-Free…Freemium…? What will YOU do?" asks Gerd Leonhard (MidemNet)
  • A roundup of where the internet royalty rates stand for each type of net broadcaster. (RAIN)
  • See you at the New Music Seminar…

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