Digital Music News: Top Stories:
MySpace Music has now finalized a global licensing deal with the labels represented by Merlin, according to details tipped Frid... (Read More)
paidContent.org:
MySpace Music has now finalized a global licensing deal with the labels represented by Merlin, according to details tipped Friday to Digital Music News. Both companies confirme (Read More)
paidContent.org:
This is not a surprise considering the continued decline of Rhapsody music service in the face of lots of new competition and the general malaise in the digital music market: MT (Read More)
Digital Music News: Top Stories:
Universal Music Group is now offering ad-supported downloads through a partnership with Guvera Limited. Guvera (guvera.com) l... (Read More)
mocoNews.net:
As this is being written, negotiations between MySpace Music and social music startup iMeem are still underway with issues including how much staff would make the move (possibly (Read More)
paidContent.org:
MySpace may follow its acquisition of iLike with streaming music service iMeem to its music roster. TechCrunch, citing multiple unidentified sources, reports that the companies (Read More)
TechCrunch:
MOG continues to tease us with short videos showing parts of the upcoming MOG All Access music service. Last week they showed a video on playlist creation – the best part was seeing how search works. Now they’ve uploaded a ne (Read More)
TechCrunch:
At the Web 2.0 Summit a few weeks ago, MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta outlined the strategy for the social network to perhaps regain some of its former glory: the “socialization of content.” While MySpace may not be seeing major (Read More)
Digital Music News: Top Stories:
The problems are unmistakable. MySpace is shedding traffic at an alarming rate, and facing difficult financial and strategic q... (Read More)
TechCrunch:
MySpace seems to be on a bit of a hiring spree. Over the past few months the social network hired Mark Rosenbaum as Chief Financial Officer, Alex Maghen as CTO (he was formerly CTO of MySpace Music), former AOL and Tsavo exec (Read More)
TechCrunch:
A month ago we were criticizing MOG for over promising and under delivering with their new All Access music service. Our chief complaint was that the service wasn’t free, which was the original vision. Today though, we report (Read More)
TechCrunch:
2008 was the year of free streaming music. When MySpace Music entered the fray a little over a year ago, it seemed like the music labels had finally relented, and were willing to experiment with free streaming music to users. (Read More)
Digital Music News: Top Stories:
Imeem, MySpace Music, YouTube, and Spotify have all gained meaningful audiences by supplying on-demand music catalogs, never an... (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
The new MSN homepage debuts tonight and you would be completely correct for thinking the recipe Microsoft (MSFT) has cooked up to inform its design ethos–white, clean and hiply modern–has definite echoes of a certain longtime (Read More)
mashable:
Greetings, music fans! It’s another Free Music Monday for your listening pleasure. If you’ve been with us for past episodes, you’ll know we’re celebrating the #musicmonday tradition on Twitter.We pick 10 tracks, albums or pla (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Now that the dust is settling on the newly launched Google Music (if you don’t yet have it in your normal Google search results, you can use it here) that integrates LaLa and iLike/MySpace streaming music, all I can think of (Read More)
TechCrunch:
TechCrunch writer Jason Kincaid traveled down to Los Angeles earlier today to cover the launch of Google Music Onebox. In addition to his live notes from the event and the panel, he managed to point his camera at just about e (Read More)
paidContent.org:
MSN is in talks with MySpace to bring its MySpace Music service to MSN, Kara Swisher reports. Swisher describes the talks as being “early,” but Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is set to refocus MSN’s content offerings on five major ar (Read More)
Mashable!:
The talks are preliminary according to AllThingsD, but they nevertheless reveal more of struggling social network MySpace’s strategy for re-inventing itself. And although MSN Music already has its own content network, executi (Read More)