Apple Serves App Store's 10 Billionth Download

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Cupertino, Calif. – Apple (NASD: AAPL) sold its 10 billionth application
from its App Store over the weekend, awarding U.K. resident Gail Davis a
$10,000 iTunes Gift Card after one of her daughters downloaded "Paper Glider"
for her iPod touch. "With more than 10 billion apps downloaded in just two
and a half years — a staggering seven billion apps in the last year alone —
the App Store has surpassed our wildest dreams," said Philip Schiller,
Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide product marketing.

 

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Will.i.am of Black Eyed Peas Offers iPhone App, Launches Firm

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Los Angeles – Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am on Monday
introduced BEP360, an app for the iPad and iPhone that features a 360-degree
view music video for the band’s song, "The Time." The $2.99 app is
the first release from will.i.apps, the musician’s new digital media production
firm, which he co-founded with Edo Segal of Futurity Ventures.

 

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Rhapsody Added 100,000 Net New Subscribers Since April

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Los Angeles – Digital music subscription service Rhapsody
has added more than 100,000 net new subscribers since the company underwent a
restructuring in April 2010, president Jon Irwin told Reuters. The service now
counts around 750,000 subscribers. Irwin said the company is now in talks with
cable companies, hoping to bundle Rhapsody with high speed Internet accounts.

 

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musiXmatch Launches Licensed Song Lyrics Database

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Cannes, France – musiXmatch on Monday announced the launch
of what it says is the largest authorized online song lyrics database, having
secured partnerships with BMG, Kobalt, Universal Music Publishing Group and
Sony ATV Music. The company will offer the database of over 5 million lyrics,
localized into 18 languages, as an API to online music services, to increase
user engagement and search engine optimization using lyrics.

 

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French Music Streamer Deezer Hits 500,000 Paying Subscribers

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Cannes, France – French streaming music service Deezer now
counts over 500,000 paying subscribers to the premium version of its service,
Music Ally reported. The company last year signed a deal with French telecom
Orange, to bundle the Deezer service in some Internet and mobile service
packages. The service counts a total of some 15 million users, across its
various free, ad-supported and paid offerings.

 

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Playcast Lands $10 Million for Cloud Game Streaming Service

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Los Angeles – Playcast, the developer of a cloud-based video
game streaming service, announced on Monday that it has raised $10 million in
its second round of venture capital financing, led by MK Capital and JVP.

Previous
backers Xenia Venture Capital and C.Mer Industries also participated in the
investment round.

Los Angeles-based Playcast launched its service in Europe
last November, offering video game streaming services to multi-system operators
and telecom companies.

Publisher partners providing titles for the service
include Activision, THQ, Capcom, Atari and Codemasters.

 

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Facebook Credits to Become Mandatory for Game Developers

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Palo Alto, Calif. – Facebook is making its Facebook Credits
the official virtual currency for all games on the site, as well as the only
route via which players will be able to inject their real-world money,
TechCrunch reported.

The report notes that game publishers will be able to
maintain their various in-game currencies, such as "FarmBucks" in
"FarmVille," but only items sold using Facebook Credits will be
eligible for promotion on Facebook’s Games dashboard.

Facebook plans to
institute the new policy on July 1 for games, but told TechCrunch it would
eventually like to apply the policy to all Facebook applications.

The company
takes a 30% cut whenever users purchase items with Facebook Credits.

 

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Video Ad Platform Auditude Raises $11 Million, Hires New CEO

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Palo Alto, Calif. – Auditude, the developer of an online
video management and advertising platform, said on Monday it has raised $11
million in its second round of funding, and named Jeremy Helfand as its CEO.

Granite Ventures led the round, which also included new investor Silicon Valley
Bank and previous backers Greylock Partners and Redpoint Ventures.

The Palo
Alto, Calif.-based company, which previously raised $10.5 million in a round
that closed in early 2009, also hired Helfand, the former president of United
Online Media Group and senior vice president and general manager at
Advertising.com, now a unit of AOL.

He succeeds Adam Cahan, who has served as
CEO for over 3 years and will continue to serve as an advisor.

Auditude’s
platform currently manages billions of monthly premium video impressions for
clients such as Comcast, Dick Clark Productions, Fox News, Major League
Baseball, Sony Music, Universal Music Group, World Wrestling Entertainment and
Yahoo.

 

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Vid.ly Shortens Video URLs, Optimizes Streams by Device

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San Francisco – Video encoding services firm Encoding.com on
Monday announced the private beta launch of Vid.ly, a new universal URL
shortening service for online video.

The Vid.ly service pre-transcodes video to
all popular Web and mobile video formats, then detects the device from which a
user requests a video, and delivers an optimized video file.

Publishers can
embed the HTML5 code provided by Vid.ly directly into Web pages or Flash
players, or share the provided short URL via SMS, Facebook, Twitter or other
social media outlets.

San Francisco-based Encoding.com said the Vid.ly service
is available as a free beta beginning today.

 

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Top Chinese File-Sharing Site VeryCD Nixes Illicit Downloads

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Los Angeles – Veteran Chinese file-sharing service VeryCD
stripped itself of copyrighted music and video files over the weekend,
TorrentFreak reported.

Launched in 2003, VeryCD had amassed "millions"
of users.

"7 years of hard work and accumulation, that will now shut off,
the end is the end. No one wanted this, but we had expected this moment would
suddenly come," founder Huang Yimeng wrote on the site’s official blog.

"Although we have been preparing for this event, the required adjustment
was very urgent. This lead us to adjust rather quickly to delete the content of
copyright-related disputes."

The Chinese government recently detailed new penalties for online copyright infringement, promising 3-7 years in
prison for those operating sites offering more than 500 copyrighted works;
serving more than 50,000 downloads of unauthorized copyrighted content; or
that count more than 1,000 members.

TorrentFreak reports that VeryCD intends to
seek an official license from the government to offer content licensed by
copyright holders.

 

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