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HMV Buying Half Of Digital Music Retailer 7Digital For $12.6 Million
Entertainment retailer HMV (LSE: HMV) is buying a 50 percent stake in the increasingly well-thought-of UK online music retailer 7Digital for £7.7 million ($12.6 million), in a move that will finally kickstart its digital ambitions.The deal means HMV Group will use 7Digital as its sole supplier for what it...
Tags: HMV, Retail Company, Digital Music, Entertainment, 7Digital, Retail, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Music, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, Robert Andrews
External links 2009-09-03
HMV buys half of digital music distributer 7digital
Film, games and music retailer HMV is buying a 50% stake in digital music distributer 7digital for GBP7.7m (USD12.6m). The deal will see 7digital become HMV’s exclusive digital track seller as the retailer struggles with falling physical sales. Like-for-like physical sales at HMV fell 1.8% year-on-year for the 18 weeks to August 29....
Tags: HMV, 7digital, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Corporate Governance, Retail, Digital Music, Digital Media, Sales, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Balderton Capital, Sutton Place Managers, Jasper Jackson
Articles 2009-09-02
Digital Music Retailer 7digital Launching In U.S., Debuts BlackBerry App
UK music download retailer 7digital has beaten Spotify to launching in the U.S., in a move that undercuts standard iTunestrack prices. The service has repertoire from all four major labels and a range of indies and is using a new BlackBerry service as a springboard for the move.The company,...
Tags: U.S., HMV, Handset, RIM BlackBerry, Digital Music, Music, 7digital, Handhelds, Hardware, Entertainment, Robert Andrews
External links 2009-10-06
Over-the-air downloads come to BlackBerry
Online music provider 7digital is bringing over-the-air music downloads to recent BlackBerry phones, such as the Storm, Bold, and Tour. The rumors have been circulating for several months now. On Tuesday the company is set to launch its application--developed by DevelopIQ--on the BlackBerry App World store, as well as on...
Tags: app, song, MP3, RIM BlackBerry
News items 2009-10-06

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Spotify offers paid downloads from 7digital
Music streaming service Spotify is teaming up with digital download store 7digital to offer paid downloads. Initially, Spotify users will be able to right-click on tracks to be redirected to buy songs and albums from 7digital. However, the partners hope...
Tags: Spotify, Jasper Jackson, Amazon.com Inc.
Articles 2009-03-29
HMV Core Sales Fall, Buys Stake in Digital Firm
LONDON (Reuters UK) - Music, books and games retailer HMV Group HMV posted a 1.8 percent fall in underlying sales for the first 18 weeks of its financial year and announced a deal to boost its digital business. The firm, which runs music, DVD and video games shops under its...
Tags: HMV, Financial Year, HMV Group Plc.
News items 2009-09-03
EMI Launches Personalised Music Discovery Site For Direct-To-Fan Retail
Nevermind iTunes, EMI Music is going direct to fans with the surprise launch of a new EMI.com site featuring playlists, recommendations and, soon, the ability to purchase tracks from the label's artists. The new EMI.com - currently in "beta", just like EMI itself nowadays - is first and foremost...
Tags: EMI Group Plc., BIOS, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Digital Music, Hardware, Components, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Entertainment, Music, Robert Andrews
External links 2008-12-17
EMI Taps Amazon MP3 For Direct-To-Consumer Retail
We first reported the fourth-place major music label's launch of its new EMI.com site back in December—an artist showcase, rather than a corporate showroom, offering visitors personalised playlists, widgets and eventual retail options.Now it has emailed users to say it has made some changes to the pseudo-social network, chief...
Tags: EMI Group Plc., Amazon.com Inc., MP3, Business Structures, Digital Music, Digital Media, Finance, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Entertainment, Music, Companies, Amazon.com, EMI, Robert Andrews
External links 2009-08-14
EMI directs users to buy music from Amazon
EMI will allow users to buy music directly from Amazon through its portal and social network, EMI.com. Users can now add tracks and albums from artists’ pages on the website to an EMI basket. Once they have selected the content they want from EMI’s site, they are redirected to...
Tags: EMI Group Plc., Amazon.com Inc., Music, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Portals, Internet, EMI Group, Jasper Jackson
Articles 2009-08-16
Spotify Now Making Universal More Money Than iTunes, In Sweden
Unlikely as it may seem, since other ad-supported music sites are finding things challenging lately, Spotify may actually be bringing record labels a big pay day - well, at least in its native Sweden.?In five months from the launch, Spotify became our largest digital source of income and so...
Tags: Sweden, Advertisement, Income, Apple iTunes, Operational Accounting, Personal Finance, Finance, Entertainment, Music, Robert Andrews
External links 2009-08-25
Spotify Adds Offline Play; Another Niche Premium Offering
Much-hyped streaming music app Spotify is introducing what may be one of its best reasons yet to go premium - the ability to store playlisted songs offline.Although the recently released iPhone and Android clients introduced this functionality for premium mobile users, allowing them to continue listening without a network...
Tags: Song, Desktops, Digital Music, Digital Media, Hardware, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Entertainment, Music, Robert Andrews
External links 2009-10-01
BlackBerry Storm 2: The big questions
RIM has unveiled the new Storm 2 to the world, and at first look it's a very similar beast to the first Storm. But there have been changes made, and RIM is pretty confident it has got it right this time – so we take a...
Tags: RIM BlackBerry, Wi-Fi, Research In Motion Ltd., BlackBerry Storm
News items 2009-10-18
Europe's Hottest Site, Spotify, Ready to Invade U.S.
DENVER Billboard - MTV Urge ... Yahoo Music Unlimited ... Virgin Digital ... Since 2003?when iTunes launched in the United States?all of these digital music services have come and gone, without challenging Apple's market dominance, despite the backing of resource-rich parent companies. Add in all the startups that have crashed...
Tags: service, user, Mobile, RealNetworks Rhapsody
News items 2009-11-03
Apple's new data center: "ridiculously big scaling-up of business or a whole new thing"
Apple's new data center in North Carolina is amongst the biggest being built in the world right now.  At over 500,000 square feet it is bigger than both Microsoft and Google's latest data centers and five times its current data center in Newark California (109,000 sq. ft). The obvious...
Tags: Apple Inc., data center
News items 2009-08-19
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