Creative Commons To Create Tools To Help You Track Uses (And Misuses) Of Your Music
This week Creative Commons (CC) released their annual report and a paper addressing future priorities. One of their top priorities is to create tools that will allow those using Creative. Continue reading
Rushmore.fm: Can They “Rethink The Music Industry From The Ground Up”?
Fictive Kin's Rushmore.fm is yet another music tech startup that wants to connect fans and musicians to the benefit of both while building a platform to benefit from making those. Continue reading
Pandora Launches TV Platform
Like it's broadcast radio station competitors, Pandora wants to be available everywhere: smartphone, computer or car. Today they've improved their connect to one of most consumer's most ubiquitous devices – the. Continue reading
London’s YPlan Raises $12 Million For Mobile Event Marketing, New York Launch
London based startup YPlan has raised $12 million from General Catalyst, Wellington Partners, Octopus Investments, Path's Dave Morin, Shakil Khan, and early Facebook employee Kevin Colleran. The company will use the. Continue reading
Beatguide Combines Club And Concert Calendar Listings With Streaming Music
Beatguide is a new electronic music events listing and discovery site that adds sound to the experience of searching for shows and club nights. The service is already described as. Continue reading
Rhapsody Expands Napster to 14 New European Countries
Digital music service Rhapsody International has expanded its Napster brand to 14 new countries in Europe: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and. Continue reading
Pandora Stock Falls Sharply On Apple iRadio News
Reports that Apple has completed deals with both WMG and UMG to launch it's iRadio streaming music service as early as June 10th, sent Pandora stock tumbling on Monday. At the. Continue reading
Music Listening: Limited Attention, Abundant Choice
By Kyle Bylin of sidewinder.fm. When we talk about music, these two questions always come up: 1) Has music listening become a background activity? 2) Are music listeners overwhelmed by the plethora of. Continue reading
WiMP Gets New CEO: Andy Chen
Andy Chen has joined music streaming service WiMP as the new Chief Executive Officer. Chen was most recently CEO at Preview Networks in Copenhagen and also holds a number of. Continue reading