PM UPDATE: AOL For Sale, Facebook Music, Sonos, ReverbNation, Cerda To VEVO, Rightsflow+Rhapsody

Faced with a falling stock price and speculation that the company is a takeover target, AOL has huddled with bankers to discuss options including taking the company private. CNBC is. Continue reading

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One Of Music’s Last Holdouts Putumayo Goes Digital

( (UPDATED) One of the last holdouts, Putumayo has finally made its music available via digital download. “I’ve built a business focused on creating compelling physical packages that combine music,. Continue reading

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Spotify Liberates Its API

Spotify opened its iOS API to developers today with the launch of libspotify. Hoping that an enhanced premium experience means more paid subscriptions, Spotify is encouraging third-party developers to write. Continue reading

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Musicians Can Do Well By Doing Good With Downtime Facebook App

Downtime is an effort to encourage musicians to take some of their "downtime" and support a good cause. Downtime's Facebook app facilitates musician involvement by connecting individual musicians to appropriately. Continue reading

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BandPage by RootMusic Raises $16 Million In Expansion Financing

RootMusic, developers of the popular BandPage musicians Facebook app, today announced $16 million in a Series B expansion funding round led by GGV Capital with new investor Northgate Capital and. Continue reading

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MixApp Shuts Down. First Victim Of Turntable.fm?

MixApp, which like turntable.fm enabled group listening, shut down service this week. "Quite simply, we can't afford the hosting costs any more," said the site's founders. MixApp required users to. Continue reading

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2011 BT Digital Music Award Nominees Announced

The list of nominees for the UK's annual BT Digital Music Awards have now been announced. The awards will be held at Camden's Roundhouse on Thursday 29 September, and will. Continue reading

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This Week’s iTunes 10 Albums & Singles

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AM NEWS: EMI Sale Update, Aerosmith & Putumayo Go Digital, Pitchfork Gets Makeover, MOG & More

(UPDATED) EMI Sale News – Top execs at Bertelsmann, Vivendi and WMG are now stating publicly that they hope to aquire EMI. But a Digital Music News report that EMI's. Continue reading

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UPDATE: iTunes Match Does NOT Stream Music

(UPDATE 3)  An Apple spokesperson told AllThingsD today that to play music from an iCloud locker it still also needs to be stored on the device. Details are slim, but it. Continue reading

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