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Omnifone Adds CEO Prior To U.S. Expansion

Music In The Cloud Service To Add 30 Markets In 2010 Jeff Hughes, previously BSkyB EVP, has been appointed CEO of Omnifone as the cloud based unlimited music service provider. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 04/20/2010 in Apps, Mobile & SMS | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Video: Pandora’s Tim Westergren On Nightline

Pandora was profiled last night on ABC’s Nightline and it was so complimentary that you’d think the internet broadcaster got to script the entire piece.

Bruce Houghton on 04/14/2010 in Radio & Satellite | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Spotify Targets 3rd Quarter For U.S. Launch

Online music service Spotify is targeting the 3rd quarter of 2010 for a U.S. launch.  “We’re buying server space in random parts of the states and there are licensing discussions. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 03/26/2010 in Apps, Mobile & SMS | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Pandora By The Numbers

At a recent NYC Pandora listener meetup CEO Tim Westergren offered these Pandora stats: It costs Pandora 2¢/hr to stream Pandora adds about 85,000 new listeners per day Pandora makes. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 03/25/2010 in Streaming | Permalink | Comments (6)
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Muziic Launches Free Music Streaming iPhone App

A iPhone app for free music streaming site Muziic has been accepted into the iTunes app store according to a weekend email to Hypebot from 16 year old founder David. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 03/22/2010 in Apps, Mobile & SMS | Permalink | Comments (5)
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Talks With Film Execs Point To iTunes In The Cloud

Last month there were rumors that Apple was in talks with labels about storing iTunes purchased music in the cloud.  It's a logical extension of Apple's Lala.com purchase and their. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 03/04/2010 in Streaming | Permalink | Comments (2)
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Thumplay Adds Apple Exec, To Launch Mobile Music Streaming On Thursday

Pablo Calamera, who oversaw technology development for MobileMe at Apple has joined Thumbplay as their Chief Technological Officer.  In this newly-created position, Calamera, will have oversight of all technology initiatives. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 03/02/2010 in Apps, Mobile & SMS | Permalink | Comments (0)
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MOG Gets $9.5M, Expands Into Spotify Territory

(Updated) Music discovery and subscription service MOG.com has announced another $9.5 million in funding and a pending expansion into Europe. The round was led by Menlo Ventures which was joined. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 02/26/2010 in Streaming | Permalink | Comments (5)
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Aspiro Launches WiMP In Nowary With All 4 Majors

Streaming Music Service Adds Local Focus Aspiro and Platekompaniet in cooperation with Norwegian telecom Telenor have launched its music streaming service WiMP with 6.5 million tracks from all four major. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 02/22/2010 in Streaming | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Spotify Explains Weekend Outage

Spotify experienced a major outage on Saturday that took down the entire streaming service and for a time even the company's web site. By Saturday evening Spotify was back up. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 02/22/2010 in Streaming | Permalink | Comments (0)
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