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BlueBeat's Claim That It Owns The Beatles Falls On Deaf Ears
You’ve got to marvel at BlueBeat’s chutzpah. The music site that quickly attracted an EMI lawsuit this week for selling Beatles tracks for $0.25-a-pop, even though The Fab Four hasn’t yet authorised online sale, has indeed now been ordered by an LA judge to stop selling those songs and...
Tags: EMI Group Plc., BlueBeat, Digital Music, Digital Media, Piracy, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Entertainment, Music, Legal, Companies, EMI, Robert Andrews
External links 2009-11-06
Last.fm Gaining Mobile Momentum; Vodafone Latest To Add
Last.fm is quickly gaining traction in the mobile world, adding Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) today to recent launches on T-Mobile and 3. The telco is making the social music site's Audioscrobbler available to Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N95, N96, N78 and 6210 handsets, allowing the site to monitor tracks being played...
Tags: Vodafone Group Plc., Mobile, Last.fm, Advertising & Promotion, Video On Demand (VoD), Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Companies, Operators, Vodafone, Countries, Europe, UK, Entertainment, Mobile Music, Social Media, Robert Andrews, Nokia Corp.
External links 2008-12-17
World Of Warcraft Magazine Targeting Gold-Rich, Long-Term Subscribers
Future Publishing (LSE: FUTR) is adding orcs, trolls and blood elves to its list of licensed magazine franchises. The Bath, England-based publisher is partnering with Blizzard Entertainment for World Of Warcraft: The Magazine, a quarterly available in English, French, German, and Spanish.Most interestingly, the 148-page title will be available...
Tags: Blizzard Entertainment, World Of Warcraft, Games, Sales Strategy, Personal Technology, Sales, Entertainment, Gaming, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Companies, Future Publishing, Vivendi, Robert Andrews
External links 2009-08-20
YouTube's Hurley Bankrolling US F1; Plans Video Content, Social Media
His video site may not yet be as profitable as hoped, but YouTube co-founder and CEO Chad Hurley’s a wealthy young man in need of an outlet. He has becoming the “primary investor” for US F1, the motorsports team debuting in next year’s season.Hurley, who recently met Formula One...
Tags: Team, Social Media, YouTube Inc., Video, F1, Obviously Video, Team Management, Management, Entertainment, Sports, Companies, Google, YouTube, Robert Andrews
External links 2009-08-20
Li Ka-Shing Confirms Spotify Stake, Will Tie Up With 3, INQ
Spotify’s mobile future looks assured, at least in part, even if Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) doesn’t approve its iPhone app. China’s Li Ka-Shing Foundation, which previously invested in Joost, has confirmed the rumour to Forbes; it has invested in the much-hyped music streamer.Why does that equal mobile? Ka-Shing (rhymes with...
Tags: Mobile, Handset, Li Ka-Shing, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Robert Andrews
External links 2009-08-20
Indy's Aussie Wing Will Trial Paid Content, Member Clubs This Year
APN News & Media, the Australasian publisher of which Ireland’s Independent News & Media owns 32.2 percent, is joining the crowd by giving thought to online income other than web ads. Announcing earnings on Friday, APN said its NZHerald.co.nz newspaper site grew January-to-June revenue 16 percent from last year,...
Tags: Revenue, APN News & Media Ltd., New Zealand, Indy, Operational Accounting, Finance, Companies, Independent News & Media, Robert Andrews
External links 2009-08-21
Pirate Bay Bid On The Rocks: Buyer Hasn't Proven It Has Funds
Global Gaming Factory X’s GGF unlikely SEK 60 million (£5.1 million, $8.5 million) acquisition of The Pirate Bay domain has been snagged, just three days before the deadline for the deal. Sweden’s AktieTorget market, which already opened an earlier investigation in to GGF on suspicion news of the deal...
Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Games, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Personal Technology, Robert Andrews
External links 2009-08-24
Australia's Fairfax Open To Pay Wall Talks With News Corp
If Rupert Murdoch wants a grand alliance of news publishers to raise a pay wall together, he might want to start looking in his homeland. Sydney Morning Herald publisher Fairfax Media’s managing director says he’d be “happy to talk” with News Corp (NYSE: NWS) about just such an idea.Asked...
Tags: News Corp., Australian Competition And Consumer Commission, Wall, Construction, Companies, Countries, Australia & New Zealand, Robert Andrews
External links 2009-08-24
Hulu Still Missing UK Shows, Still Dangling Equity For ITV
Updated It’s been 10 months since we first learned NBC, News Corp (NYSE: NWS) and Disney’s U.S. TV site Hulu wanted to open up shop in Britain - but still there’s no sign of it actually being ready to pounce. The venture may have rights to show some UK...
Tags: Equity, U.K., Hulu, paidContent:UK, Channel 4, TVs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Media & Publishing, TV, VOD, Companies, ITV, Robert Andrews
External links 2009-08-24
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
Updated: Apple Approves Spotify's iPhone App
Update 2 (6.15pm BST): Apple’s Cupertino spokesperson tells us: “The current status as of right now is it’s been approved and we hope to add the app to the more than 65,000 apps on the app store very soon. We’ve been in constant communication working with the developer and...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., App, Smart Phones, Federal Government, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Government, Entertainment, Music, Mobile, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Robert Andrews
External links 2009-08-27
Apple Says It Has Approved App From Music Service Spotify
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) says it has approved an iPhone app from Spotify, a music service that some people believe represents a growing threat to iTunes.The decision has been closely watched in part because Apple has previously disallowed apps it deems to duplicate core functions of its handset. Speculation had...
Tags: Apple Inc., App, Music Service, Federal Government, Smart Phones, Government, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Robert Andrews
External links 2009-08-27
Orange Buying Unanimis, Forms Multimedia Ad Network
A month after saying it will form a joint mobile ads sales team with Blyk, Orange is buying itself a place at the web ads top table, acquiring Unanimis, the largest UK digital ad agency, for an undisclosed sum.The announcement doesn’t say exactly how Orange will use Unanimis, whose...
Tags: Multimedia, Advertisement, U.K., Advertising, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, France Telecom, Orange, Robert Andrews
External links 2009-08-28
Publicis Buying Unilever's French CRM Site For FMCG Intelligence
Top four advertising group Publicis is buying Pour Tout Vous Dire (“for everything you say”), a customer relationship management programme and website with which Unilever tries to build relationships with its French customers. It will now open up the platform to all brands, in an effort to harvest online...
Tags: Brand, Publicis Groupe S.A., Women, Unilever PLC, Gender And Diversity, Branding, Mergers & Acquisitions, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Marketing, Investment, Finance, Software, Advertising, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Robert Andrews
External links 2009-09-01
Research: Most People Still Not Interested In Mobile Music
U.S. mobile music consumption has doubled in the last year, but still only 10 percent of American adults listen to music on their mobile phone at least one a month. That’s compared with 27 percent of British and 70 percent of metropolitan Chinese, according to Forrester’s latest paper on...
Tags: U.S., Phone, Mobile, Music, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Entertainment, Research & Metrics, Research, Robert Andrews
External links 2009-08-18
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 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
Google Not Staffing Up Jaiku; Engeström Bears Down On Activity Streams
What on earth has Google (NSDQ: GOOG) done to Jaiku? Since the nascent mobile microblogging tool was bought by Mountain View back in October 2007, when it almost posed a credible threat to Twitter, the big "G" has given precious little attention to the Finnish startup, causing some...
Tags: Google Inc., Staffing, Mobile, Jaiku, Advertising & Promotion, Mergers & Acquisitions, Marketing, Investment, Finance, Social Media, Robert Andrews, Nokia Corp.
External links 2008-12-17
Updated: SpinVox Gets Emergency Funds
Under-fire UK voice-to-text firm SpinVox, which we revealed last week was finalising a new funding injection, has secured new funds thought to be £5.5 million, as suppliers and staff complain of unpaid bills and expenses.The company told paidContent:UK: "Existing investors from the last round of funding have made available...
Tags: Supplier, Emergency Fund, Staff, CEO, SpinVox, Channel Management, Personal Finance, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Mobile, Robert Andrews
External links 2009-08-03
Guardian Media Group Will Be 'Smaller', Even After The Recovery
Guardian Media Group CEO Carolyn McCall says further upcoming restructure "inevitably mean we will be a smaller organisation", even after the gloom of the advertising downturn clears.In a staff memo (we are part of that staff, obviously, though we didn't get the memo directly) clarifying weekend reports about the...
Tags: Guardian Media Group Plc., Recovery, Downturn, GNM, GMG Regional Media, Balance Sheets, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Finance, Companies, Guardian Media Group, Robert Andrews
External links 2009-08-03
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