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- Death by Discovery: The Interminable Churn of Music Startups
- The more I think about it, the more I see the music start-ups space as a dog that won’t ever bark..err…sing. The MySpace-iLike deal—and the price that iLike got—is a perfect example of what will continue to shape all of the online and mobile music startups. As I see...
- External links 2009-08-20
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- Music Startup Slacker CEO Dennis Mudd Out; $70 Million and Counting
- Slacker, the heavily funded online music startup founded by former MusicMatch CEO Dennis Mudd, has disposed off of, well, Mudd, reports VentureWire. This comes as the music startup scene remains murky. The company, launched in 2006, has raised a whopping $70 million in funding, mainly to build a portable...
- External links 2009-08-21
- Free All Media Raises Nearly $1 Million For Ad-Supported Digital Music Downloads
- Free All Music is a new digital music startup that plans to make money by getting people to watch ads in exchange for track downloads. If it sounds familiar, that’s because it’s the business model that startups like SpiralFrog tried and failed at—all while blowing through tens of millions...
- External links 2009-10-01
- Warner Music Says Imeem Is Worthless
- Erick Schonfeld submits: How bad are things getting for music streaming startups? We knew that imeem was on the verge of shutting down before getting a last-minute cash infusion from some of its investors, but an SEC filing from Warner Music adds some more details about...
- External links 2009-05-07
- iMeem: From Tens Of Millions In Funding To Fire Sale
- 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 engineering and sales, whether cofounder and CEO Dalton Caldwell would come along a la iLike’s Partovi brothers—now execs with MySpace, possible...
- External links 2009-11-18
- Joost founders building music service
- They turned the entertainment world upside-down with KaZaA, revolutionised voice communications with Skype and eventually gave up on their web TV ambitions through Joost. Now serial entrepreneurs and investors Niklas Zennstrom of Sweden and Janus Friis of Denmark are trying again to disrupt the music...
- News items 2009-10-14
- Stop the music: EchoStar balks at new channel; Universal Music sues.(News & Comment)(EchoStar Communications Corp.)(Universal Music Group)
- Universal Music has filed a suit in federal court charging that DBS company EchoStar breached an agreement to carry its startup international-music channel, delaying its launch. The network was scheduled to debut Jan. 22, but Universal delayed it w Universal Music has filed a...
- Research articles 2005-01-31
- KaZaA, Skype, Joost Founders Now Building A Music Service
- They turned the entertainment world upside-down with KaZaA, revolutionized voice communications with Skype and eventually gave up on their web TV ambitions through Joost.Now serial entrepreneurs and investors Niklas Zennstrom of Sweden and Janus Friis of Denmark are trying again to disrupt the music business. They have funded and...
- External links 2009-10-14
- DOJ music probe may give MTV some help. (Dept. of Justice; MTV Networks Inc.)
- MTV: Music Television might get help from the U.S. Department of Justice in fending off the record industry's forthcoming music video channel. Sources from the major record companies involved in the startup channel and sources close to MTV have c MTV: Music...
- Research articles 1994-08-01
- Havoc Aims to Be Music Video Star.(Havoc Television )
- By Steve Donohue Supplying free independent music videos for cable video-on-demand platforms, startup programmer Havoc Television is steadily gaining distribution on systems owned by Comcast Corp., Cox Communications Inc. and other distributo By Steve Donohue ...
- Research articles 2006-07-17
- Slacker's Still Raising Money?But Ditches Its Device In Favor Of Apps
- After raising over $70 million to develop and sell its G2 portable music device, music startup Slacker is giving up on it—choosing instead, to focus on building a mobile app-based streaming business. President Jim Cady, who’s been running the company since founder and CEO Dennis Mudd stepped down in...
- External links 2009-10-22
- Warner Music Group Launches Web Strategy 2.0
- NEW YORK (AdAge.com) –- Warner Music Group is calling on a startup to help execute the lynchpin in its new approach the web. The company struck a deal with Outrigger Media, a small group spun out of video site Veoh, to package artists such as Madonna, Ashley Tisdale and Green...
- News items 2009-10-08
- Guvera Gets UMG To Buy In To Its Dream Of Ad-Supported Music Downloads
- Next year is shaping up to be an interesting one in terms of digital music. We’ll be able to see how much traction music video site Vevo ultimately gains, whether Google’s music search becomes ubiquitous, and possibly see Spotify launch here in the U.S. There will also be two...
- External links 2009-11-18
- Yahoo Music Alums Launch Dashbox, An Online Music Licensing Exchange
- Dave Goldberg and Bob Roback, formerly VP and GM of Yahoo Music, respectively, have teamed up again to launch Dashbox, an online music licensing exchange. The goal is to help advertisers, movie studios, and other companies that need to buy music, keep track of which record labels and artists...
- External links 2009-10-28
- Clearwire and broadband; Jive; Time's top 50 Web sites; etc.
- Clearwire has applied for federal funds as part of the U.S. government's new broadband stimulus offering, though a spokeswoman for the Kirkland wireless broadband carrier told Unstrung that the grants would have "no significant impact on our funding or our existing build-out plans."The Open Book Alliance, which includes Amazon, Microsoft...
- News items 2009-08-27
- Music retailer Amie Street closes first major label deal
- Sony Music’s catalogue will soon be available to buy on indie music retail site Amie Street after the New York-based startup signed its first major label deal. However, Sony will not be using Amie Street’s dynamic pricing model, in which songs start off free but fluctuate in price over...
- Articles 2009-09-21
- Foundry Group Bets On Next Big Sound For Online Music Analytics
- Next Big Sound, an online music analytics startup, has raised an undisclosed round of funding from VC firm Foundry Group. Next Big Sound pulls data from online sites, including iLike, Last.fm, and MySpace, to track changes in a band’s popularity. Users can either search for the name of a...
- External links 2009-10-01
- Atrinsic Buys Social Network E-Commerce Startup ShopIt
- Digital content network Atrinsic has purchased ShopIt, a startup which makes it easy for people to buy and sell goods on social networks. Users set up their own storefronts on ShopIt—and then syndicate their listings on various social networks via apps they can install. The company's apps have been...
- External links 2009-08-07
- Slingbox Founder Backs Net-TV Startup
- Blake Krikorian, founder and former CEO of Sling Media, has joined the board of Clicker Media, a Los Angeles-based startup hoping to become "the complete programming guide" for Internet television, the company announced Thursday. Krikorian left Sling -- inventor of the Slingbox TV "place-shifting" device -- in January 2009 along...
- News items 2009-11-05
- Streaming Service Grooveshark Signs Licensing Deal With EMI
- Streaming music service Grooveshark has signed a licensing agreement with EMI, six months after being sued by the music label, AllThingsD reports. In June, EMI sued Grooveshark, which offers free ad-supported streaming and claims one million registered users. Grooveshark countered at the time by saying that the two parties...
- External links 2009-10-13
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