hypebot.com–
Adding another social network to your day can feel like the straw that broke the camel's back. But more and more stats are suggesting that you ignore Google+ at your peril. It took Facebook almost a year to reach …
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Industry, Internet
billboard.biz–
Shazam, the fourth-most-popular iOS app of all time, plans to let Superbowl viewers tag the audio coming out of their television sets on Sunday. Tagging audio essentially provides links to online content through …
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Mobile, Industry
billboard.biz–
Facebook made a much-anticipated status update Wednesday: The Internet social network is going public eight years after its computer-hacking CEO Mark Zuckerberg started the service at Harvard University.
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Industry, Internet
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Three of The Pirate Bay's founders won't be able to argue their case before the Sweden Supreme Court.
Earlier today, the court announced that it won't hear an appeal by Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde, and Carl Lundstrom …
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Industry, Internet
wired.com–
A scheduled purging of Megaupload’s data was tentatively shelved Tuesday to give its millions of account holders an opportunity to attempt to retrieve their content from the file-sharing service, whose top officials …
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Industry, Internet
hollywoodreporter.com–
The iTunes Store is great. But in the negotiations between music executives and Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the latter certainly came out on top, according to Warner Music Group chairman Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
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Industry, Music Tech, Apple
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The sky is falling...the music industry continues to live a “Chicken Little” scenario. At least, that’s how Paul Adler describes it on Music Think Tank. Many in the industry think that the business model of the self …
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Industry, Internet
billboard.biz–
-- Facebook may file with the SEC on Wednesday to raise $5 billion through an initial public stock offering, according to a report at International Financing Review. A $5 billion IPO is lower than recent predictions …
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Industry, Internet
news.cnet.com–
In one exchange, MegaUpload managers fretted via Skype IM chat in 2007 that founder Kim Dotcom wasn't "safe with his money" and "the current situation is a bit risky," according to documents U …
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Industry, Internet
billboard.biz–
In just four months, Facebook has become a major player in music streaming. Since the launch of Facebook Music in September, the social-networking giant has helped Spotify skyrocket to over 3 million users in the …
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Industry, Music Tech, Internet
billboard.biz–
Public Enemy founder and Bomb Squad producer Hank Shocklee evangelized for Apple's disruptive effects on the music industry, then performed on some Apple products of his own during a headlining gig at the 27th annual …
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Industry, Apple