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Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) is lining up a new range of music video games partners, as it continues to voice displeasure at terms offered by publishers of smash-hit successes (Read More)
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General music industry woes, along with $14 million in severance costs, pushed Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) to a net loss in Q3. In the meantime, revenues were barely up 1 per (Read More)
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New York Times:
Score another court victory for Edgar Bronfman Jr., the Warner Music Group's chairman, in the $100 million lawsuit filed against him two years ago by former Simon & Schuster chief Richard Snyder.A New York Appeals Court on Mo (Read More)
VentureBeat:
If I were Spotify, I’d be paying close attention right now.Imeem, which was one of the first music startups to work out streaming deals with all four major record labels, is going to MySpace for a bargain basement price of $1 (Read More)
New York Times:
MySpace, the social networking platform, is in talks to acquire the struggling free music-streaming site imeem, according to press reports. (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)
TechCrunch:
Last January Warner Music Group forced YouTube to remove all of its music from the site, citing disputes over royalty payments. This led to an outcry from users, who created protest videos once YouTube started muting or pulli (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
We've been lucky enough to get our hands on leaked screenshots from one version of Rdio, the forthcoming music app from Skype, KaZaA and Joost creators Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. Zennstrom and Friis were the original (Read More)
Fast Company:
The arms race to lure music-loving clients is heating up at the moment: First Google gets a music service, and now MSN does too. MSN's download service launches tomorrow, and Microsoft's schmoozed all four big record labels t (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we analyze how Google CEO Eric Schmidt thinks the Web will evolve, review Hulu's latest plans to make money, investigate use case (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Google just announced the launch of Google Music. This new service is powered by Lala and MySpace's iLike. Other partners include Gracenote and imeem, Pandora and Rhapsody. Google has also partnered with the major music label (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation launched a "Takedown Hall of Shame" for what it sees as egregious abuses of digital copyright regulations.Traditionally the champions of Creative Commons and other, more open methods (Read More)
Fast Company:
Microsoft is talking to MySpace about a music partnership, according to The Wall Street Journal. The deal may mean a leap-frog in popularity for MSN's music portal. MySpace's music site is second only to AOL's with 27 million (Read More)
New York Times:
Former Vivendi boss Jean-Marie Messier and the head of Warner Music Group Edgar Bronfman Jr. have been told to stand trial on various charges of financial wrong doing. (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Google Inc. plans to launch a service that would allow users to listen to songs for free over the internet or purchase them, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. A st (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Here’s the next contestant in the never ending stream of music services, each of which, inevitably, slide into financial disaster at some point. Music service MOG says they’ll launch MOG All Access by Thanksgiving this year. (Read More)
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Ecast, a long-standing digital jukebox-based ad network and content platform, has raised $17 million in funding, per an SEC filing. New investor LG Electronics (SEO: 066570) participated in this round, along with previous bac (Read More)