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Liberty Media Looks to Boost Live Nation Stake to 34.9%
Englewood,
Colo. - Liberty Media (NASD: LINTA), the media
conglomerate controlled by John Malone, whose holdings include Starz, Overture
Films and QVC, on Tuesday announced its intention to...
MySpace, SoundExchange Team to Source Unpaid Artists
Cannes, France - News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) MySpace
social network has partnered with royalty collection and distribution agency
SoundExchange to search for artists who may be owed...
Shazam ID Service Driving 300,000 Song Purchases Daily
Cannes, France - Mobile music discovery service Shazam
is generating 300,000 track purchases each day from users of the service, CEO
Andrew Fisher said at the...
CEO of French Streaming Service Deezer Ousted by Investors
Paris
- Deezer, the France-based streaming music service, has seen its co-founder and
CEO Jonathan Benassaya forced out by investors, TechCrunch reports. The
investors were reportedly not...
RightsFlow Inks Deals with PRS for Music, PIAS
Cannes, France - RightsFlow, a provider of bulk
mechanical licensing and royalty services for the music industry, on Monday
announced agreements with PRS for Music, which...
Gracenote Gets Access to Pre-Release Song Data for ID Services
Cannes, France - Gracenote, a unit of Sony
that provides song identification and media database services, announced on Monday
that it has signed deals with the...
SoundCloud, Hype Machine Team to Serve Music to Bloggers
London
- SoundCloud, the provider of a music distribution platform for labels and
artists, on Monday announced a partnership with music blog aggregator The Hype
Machine. The...
IODA Expand Mobile Distribution in China with R2G
Cannes, France - IODA, a digital distributor of
independent music, announced on Monday that it has signed a deal with China's R2G, which will distribute
IODA-represented...
Bach Technology's MusicDNA Aims to Supplant MP3 Format
Cannes, France - Bach Technology on Monday
introduced MusicDNA, a new digital music file format intended to supplant MP3
by adding updateable lyrics, artwork, tour dates,...
HP to Bundle Omnifone Music Service on PCs in Europe
Cannes, France - PC maker HP (NYSE: HPQ) on Monday
announced a deal with European digital music service operator Omnifone, to
bundle the company's MusicStation Desktop unlimited...
