Music Industry News: Italian Industry Slumps, MySpace, LimeWire, Spotify Sceptics & More
- Report: Italian industry slumped by 9% in 2009. (MusicAlly)
- Barnes and Noble Rip Out Music Section. (MP3News)
- Myspace Accused Of Ripping Off Stealth Startup Pinterest. (TechCrunch)
- Dozens of alternatives to LimeWire. (TorrentFreak)
- CitiGroup's Wormsley denies on the witness stand giving EMI bid details to Rerra Firma's Guy Hands. (Guardian)
- Hey, Spotify Sceptics – International Is Hard To Do. (PaidContent)
- France to start Carte Musique digital music subsidy plan. (DW)
- Napster app for Android now offers offline play for subscribers.
More Music Industry News & Commentary:
- Myspace concedes to Facebook, changes focus. (ars, hypebot) Vote and tell us what you think of the new MySpace.
- Universal Music Group Promotes Rob Wells To President Of Global Digital Business.
- Vevo CEO on MTV, Jersey Shore, Google TV, Music Videos. (Fast Company)
- From one big hit to countless hits on the web. (Financial Times)
- The 9 Best College Radio Stations. (Huffington Post)
- How Lady Gaga's One Billion YouTube Views Changes the Music Industry. (FC)
- Top 5 things I dislike about Windows Phone 7. (cnet)
- "If Justin Bieber Can Get Famous, Why Can't I?" Asks YouTube Guitar Hero Graham Stookey. (CBS)
- LimeWire's demise: We revisit six peer-to-peer file sharing services. (PCWorld)
- Introducing Gen C – The Connected Collective Consumer. (Neilson)
- Simplify Music 2.0 Does What iTunes and iPhone Should Do Natively. (NYT)