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TuneCore Offers Discount to MySpace Music Artists

Los Angeles - TuneCore, a provider of low-cost digital music distribution and promotional services, on Wednesday announced a discounted rate for artists and labels registered with the...

Global Music Revenues Dip 7% in 2009; Digital Gains 9.2%

London - Worldwide recorded music sales fell 7% in 2009 to $17.03 billion, as sales of physical products like CDs dropped 12.7% globally, according to a...

Pirate Bay Operators Deny Acquisition by Pandeya-backed Firm

Los Angeles - Despite a press release purportedly announcing that the domain of file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay had been acquired by a Massachusetts-based start-up on...

ImageSpan Lands Funding, Names New CEO

Sausalito, Calif. - ImageSpan, the provider of a licensing and royalty payment automation platform for media, announced on Wednesday that it has closed a new round of...

SoundHound Releases Free iPhone Music ID Application

San Jose, Calif. - SoundHound, the provider of a music recognition service, on Tuesday launched a new, free version of its mobile application for Apple's iPhone. The...

Indaba Releases Mantis Web-based Audio Recording Tools

New York - Indaba Music, an online music creation community, on Tuesday announced the official release of Mantis, its Web-based Digital Audio Workstation application that lets users...

Twitter Removes Song Link Tweet After DMCA Complaint

San Francisco - Citing a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice, Twitter has removed a user's tweet that contained links to download songs from an...

Universal Music Complaint Gets Web Leaks News Site Pulled

New York - A website that published news about copyrighted media leaked onto file-sharing networks has been taken offline by its German Web host following a complaint...

Spotify Adds Social, Library Features to Music Service

Stockholm, Sweden - Streaming music service Spotify on Tuesday rolled out a feature upgrade that includes a number of social features, as well as the ability...

Massachusetts Start-up Acquires ThePirateBay.org for $10M

Update: The operators of The Pirate Bay deny that an acquisition deal has been made. Cambridge, Mass. - Business Marketing Services (BMSV), a Cambridge, Mass.-based company, announced...