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Google Hires Atty. to Handle Music Licensing Negotiations

Mountain View, Calif. - Google (NASD: GOOG) has hired attorney Elizabeth Moody, formerly a music licensing specialist with the law firm Davis Shapiro Lewit & Hayes, to...

SeatGeek Lands $1 Million for Predictive Ticket Pricing

New York - SeatGeek, the provider of a predictive pricing service for sports and concert tickets, has raised $1 million in its first round of financing,...

Admins of U.K. BitTorrent Site Filesoup Face Copyright Charges

Los Angeles - Two administrators of veteran U.K.-based BitTorrent file-sharing site Filesoup have been charged with conspiracy to infringe copyright, TorrentFreak reports.   Local authorities, along with...

BigChampagne Debuts Cross-Media "Ultimate Chart" for Music

Los Angeles - Media measurement firm BigChampagne has introduced the Ultimate Chart -- a weekly list of top songs and artists based on data from traditional...

Streaming Radio Service Pandora Hits 60 Million Users

New York - Streaming music service Pandora now counts 60 million registered users, president and CEO Joe Kennedy said at the New Music Seminar on Wednesday....

LoKast Mobile Media Sharing App Released for Android

Philadelphia - NearVerse has released a version of its LoKast mobile media sharing application for Android smartphones. The LoKast service, which debuted at SXSW this year,...

MOG Launches iPhone, Android Mobile Music Service Apps

Berkeley, Calif. - MOG, the operator of a network of user-penned music blogs as well as a digital music service, announced on Tuesday the release of...

Spotify Hits 500,000 Subscribers for Premium Music Service

London - Spotify now counts more than 500,000 subscribers to premium version of its streaming music service, which costs £9.99 ($15.25) per month, CEO Daniel...

MP3tunes Teams With Roku on Streaming Music to TVs

San Diego - MP3tunes, the digital music locker service founded by MP3.com creator Michael Robertson, said on Tuesday that it has partnered with connected set-top box...

Pirate Party-backed ISP Launching in Sweden

Los Angeles - Sweden's file-sharing-friendly Pirate Party is partnering on the launch of a new ISP in the country, which promises to offer anonymity to file-swappers...