Ingrid Lunden
Jul 18, 2011 7:20 PM
The idea of social networks as a place to listen to and share music is one that MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) should have owned. But its gradual decline has left the field open for others to take up the opportunity. The European social network Netlog is partnering with the music streaming…
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Ingrid Lunden
Mar 7, 2011 6:51 AM
Our rundown of mobile news to start your day. Today: Apple’s supposed plan to develop an iPhone for China’s LTE standard; We7 launches a radio app; Nokia (NYSE: NOK) sells off the commercial licensing rights to Qt to Finnish company Digia.
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Robert Andrews
Mar 4, 2011 8:27 AM
The Technology Strategy Board, a UK government-funded exploratory digital helper agency, is giving £1.8 million to a new consortium comprising Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), BT (NYSE: BT), the Internet Advertising Bureau and digital agency Somethin’ Else, to develop a “cloud radio” service codenamed “Apollo”.
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Robert Andrews
Apr 27, 2010 7:01 PM
Spotify is trying to prioritise its paid service amid labels’ free reticence, Last.fm is ditching expensive full-track streams - but We7 says it just hit its first ever month where advertising income alone covered all of its free-play music royalty outgoings. Some labels have recently expressed suspicion toward ad-funded music…
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Robert Andrews
Apr 9, 2009 6:40 AM
As free-music websites begin to realise they’re not making enough money to pay for the tunes their users play, Peter Gabriel-backed We7 is following Last.fm by introducing a premium subscription feature. Coming this summer, the model exactly matches Spotify’s own price system - £9.99 a month or £0.99 a day…
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Robert Andrews
Mar 12, 2009 5:47 PM
Google’s opposition to proposed new UK music rates may look like just public posturing, as private negotiations continue. But it’s only one instance of what may become an increasingly fractious tug ‘o war between online services and the music business in the next few months. Almost uniquely, YouTube’s 2007 blanket…
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Entertainment, Music, Legal, Companies, Google, YouTube, mark mulligan, prs for music, steve purdham, we7
Robert Andrews
Sep 2, 2008 4:12 AM
We7, the Peter Gabriel-backed music site that offers free tracks by grafting audio ads to the start of songs, has got a license from EMI Music - but not for what was once the core part of the service. Instead, the 400,000 EMI songs - including those from its famous…
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Rafat Ali
Mar 9, 2008 9:56 PM
Oxford-based We7, which offers music tracks for free with ads tacked on the front, has signed its first major label deal with SonyBMG, which will license its catalog of more than 250,000 tracks to the company’s new online music streaming service, reports Guardian. Peter Gabriel-backed We7 already offers a free…
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