When will Spotify, the best music service Americans can't use, finally make it to the U.S? No time soon, according to a new report from Billboard. The trade magazine says the much-hyped service has gone "back to square one" in its negotiations with the big music labels, who have licensed their catalogs for a European ...

Publicado el viernes 30 de julio a las 7:47am

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Smaato mobile advertising award VC partners and nominees shortlist announced

Publicado el jueves 29 de julio a las 10:11am

Google hires well-regarded music attorney to help negotiate YouTube's music licenses, new Google music store, and to create licensing template for cloud music.

Publicado el martes 27 de julio a las 1:32pm

Google has hired well known music attorney Elizabeth Moody to assist them with negotiations with music labels and other rights holders for their upcoming Google Music service. Moody was previously with Davis Shapiro Lewit & Hayes and specialized in digital music. Name partner Fred Davis , broadly known for representing nearly every digital music service over the last few years, recently started ...

Publicado el miércoles 21 de julio a las 3:05pm

The once up-and-coming music service that helps people share their playlists has struggled to raise cash.

Publicado el viernes 16 de julio a las 2:48pm

Fred Goodman continues his chat with Wired.com about where the ailing music industry might be headed. How about having consumers subscribe directly to artists instead of to a music service? Oh, and drop those battling egos, too.

Publicado el viernes 16 de julio a las 1:21pm

Some say three characters, MP3, destroyed the music industry. Another three letters, API, can save it, according to software developers showing off their wares at the SF MusicTech Summit. Behind every mashup of two or more online services, there's an API. That's short for application programming interface, a set of commands that lets programmers write new code that controls an existing piece of ...

Publicado el jueves 15 de julio a las 6:35pm

By: Carlos M. Perez/peacerocker July 14, 2010 Today, Digital Music News is reporting that; "According to Nielsen Soundscan, paid downloads slipped a modest 0.2 percent to 597 million units during the first half in the US, a possible prelude to bigger declines ahead." Bill Nguyen, one of Lala's co-founders called Lala's technology "the end of the MP3." While others laughed and brushed Nguyen ...

Publicado el miércoles 14 de julio a las 1:14pm

Industry contacts said on Wednesday that MySpace Music could turn to a subscription model. Backing an earlier story, the rumor asserts that the social network's executives have talked to labels about an unlimited service. Progress isn't known by CNET or others, but the new approach could be ready by the end of the year.... MySpace Music - Social network - MySpace - Online Communities - Music

Publicado el miércoles 7 de julio a las 6:15pm

Ad-supported music continues to take it on the chin. A high-level source says MySpace Music is pushing to dump free streaming in favor of a paid model.

Publicado el miércoles 7 de julio a las 4:48pm