Music Biz News: Shazam + Spotify, Ping Mobile?, MySpace Talks, Mobile YouTube, Pandora & More
- Popular music discovery app Shazam will now point users to "Play In Spotify". That's if you're a premium user and you're in a country that allows Spotify…
- Is Apple Building A Mobile Social Network? (Business Insider)
- No Surprise: MySpace Sale, Merger or Spinoff Being Weighed by News Corp., Official Says (Bloomberg)
- YouTube will introduce pre-roll ads on its Android app, and Vevo will offer its catalog for Android users to watch on their phones. (NY Times)
More Music Industry News & Commentary:
- Music Journalism Faces Shake-Ups, Shake-Downs and High Tech Show-Downs in 2010. (PM)
- Pandora's founder looks back at 2010 and shares that they topped 75 million users last year. (Pandora). Plus Digging into Pandora's Music Genome with musicologist Nolan Gasser (ars)
- Highly Flawed 'Piracy' Report Used To Support Positions That Are Unrelated (Techdirt)
- MySpace's Demise and Why Facebook Doesn't Need a Music Product Strategy. (MM)
- RapidShare Accuses ‘Piracy Report’ Publisher of Defamation, Might Sue. (TF)
- Rock isn't dead – it's just resting. (Guardian)
- How Physical Media Can Still Have a Future. (Techi)
- You Can Print Your Own Open Source Guitar. (CP)