More Music Industry News: Qtrax Needs $’s, Limewire VPs, Metadata, Craigslist & More
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Qtrax delays Australia launch; seeks $50M in new funding. (DMW)- Limewire has two new VPs: John Pavley has been named Vice President, Engineering and Shoshana Winter is Vice President, Marketing.
- we7 has partnered with online music fan platform, FanShake. The agreement will offer all UK-based Fanshake users free access to the top 10 top tracks of each artist and 30 sec samples to global visitors.
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- Does Silicon Valley’s Spending Spree Signal a Recovery? (NY Times)
- The MidemNet blog posts Bruce Warila's great article on the state of music industry investments and where to look for new opportunities. (MidemNet)
- Hipster Runoff gets the end of the year polls and opinions started with:
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The partnership between we7 and FanShake is interesting, actually giving away freebeeis in order to promote artists. Hopefully this will increase purchase volume and not vice versa.