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Rumblefish Offers YouTube Creators Licensed Tracks for Videos
San Bruno,
Calif. - Rumblefish, an online
music licensing service, has signed a deal with Google's (NASD: GOOG) YouTube, which will
allow YouTube users to pay $2 to...
SoundExchange Q2 Digital Royalty Payouts Top $54.8 Million
Washington
- SoundExchange, the recording industry entity set up to collect and distribute
digital music royalties, said this week that it made a record $54.8 million...
Indie Music Store, Community Site GarageBand.com to Shutter
San Francisco
- GarageBand.com, an online music community and digital music store, announced
that it will shutter on July 15 after more than ten years in...
Ticketfly Acquires Web Ticketing, Marketing Firm Gigbot
San Francisco
- Ticketfly, the operator of an independent online ticketing and social
marketing platform, announced that it has acquired Gigbot, a provider of
Web-based ticketing and...
HP Acquires Mobile Music Service Provider Melodeo
Seattle
- HP (NYSE: HPQ) has paid between $30 million and $35 million to acquire Melodeo, operator
of the nuTsie mobile music streaming service, TechCrunch reported.
Seattle-based Melodeo...
Microsoft Debuts Entertainment Vertical on Bing Search Engine
Los Angeles
- Microsoft (NASD: MSFT) has launched a new Entertainment vertical for its Bing search
engine, featuring music, gaming, movies and TV sub-categories. The music
section features...
Swedish Pro-Piracy Lobby Group Piratbyran Disbands
Stockholm, Sweden - Piratbyran ("the bureau of
piracy"), a pro-piracy lobbying group formed in Sweden in 2003 that was responsible
for the launch of file-sharing hub...
TuneCore Provides Distribution to Spotify Music Service
Los Angeles
- TuneCore, a provider of digital distribution services for musical artists,
said on Wednesday that it has added streaming music service Spotify to its
offering....
Rdio Taps Music Reports for Rights Administration
Woodland Hills,
Calif. - Music Reports, a
provider of music rights administration services, said on Wednesday that it
will provide its services to Rdio, the new online...
IFPI Asks Google to Remove Links to The Pirate Bay
Los Angeles - Following a
similar move by the U.K.'s
BPI trade group, international record label trade group IFPI has asked Google
to remove search results that...
