Exec In Charge Of Launching YouTube Music Service Exits For Spotify
YouTube's executive for consumer products, Shiva Rajaraman (pictured left), has exited the Googleplex for Spotify. One of Rajaraman's chief responsibilities in recent months has been YouTube's yet to launch subscription music service.. Continue reading
Facebook Goes Down, Musicians Tremble…
UPDATE 4 12:37– Facebook went offline just before Noon on Friday, but was back up 40 minutes later. No reason for the outage has been given, so far; but it. Continue reading
Knoxville’s MediaWorks Demo Day To Include 4 Music Tech Startups
MediaWorks is a new digital media accelerator emphasizing education and mentorship. It's a program of the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center (KEC) and next week they're holding a demo day for the. Continue reading
SESAC Acquires Video Music Licensor Rumblefish
Video music micro-licencing service Rumblefish has been acquired by for-profit performing rights organization SESAC. Details of the deal were not announced. Rumblefish will operate as an independent subsidiary of SESAC with founder. Continue reading
Apple Completes $3 Billion Beats Deal, Vivendi Universal Nets $404 Million For 13% Stake
UPDATED: It's official: Apple has completed the $3 billion deal to buy Beats Electronics and Beats Music. Overnight, also came news that Universal Music Group's parent company Vivendi had completed its. Continue reading
atVenu Rakes In Over $100 Million From 4.2 Million Units Of Merch
atVenu launched in January 2013 offering merchandise management via the web and mobile apps, including warehouse and trailer inventories and Soundscan reporting, and have gone on to great initial success.. Continue reading
Apple Denies 200 Jobs Cut At Beats, But Admits Some Are Coming
UPDATE 2: Sources close to both Beats and Apple are denying earlier reports of 200 person layoffs at Beats, but admit that some may be coming soon: "We're excited to. Continue reading
Ryan Farish Shares What He’s Learned Streaming Music On MP3.com, YouTube and Spotify
Brad Hill at RAIN interviews electronic music artist Ryan Farish who got his start sharing music via MP3.com and went on to huge success on such platforms as the Weather. Continue reading
Specialty Music Streamer Saavn Nears $30-40 Million Funding Round
New York based music streaming service Saavn is close to raising $30-40 million in a deal reportedly led by Hong Kong-based hedge fund Steadview Capital, according to the Economic Times.. Continue reading
Tango Music Pix Accidentally Unveiled, Creates Slideshows From Your Pics & Spotify’s Music
Tango apparently launched a stand-alone slideshow creation app called Tango Music Pix on Friday and then pulled it. Something obviously went wrong because Tango had not reached out to the. Continue reading
