Spotify Launches New Music Streaming Options in U.K.

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Mark Hefflinger
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London – Streaming music
service Spotify on Tuesday launched two new service offerings for its U.K. users,
Spotify Unlimited and Spotify Open. The Unlimited option offers ad-free
streaming to a computer for £4.99 ($7.15) per month; the plan that adds mobile access
still costs £9.99 ($14.32) per month. The new Spotify Open offers free
streaming with ads but caps listening at 20 hours per month. The company’s
basic free streaming service still requires an invite to join.

Related Links:
http://www.spotify.com

Amazon to Release Kindle App for Android This Summer

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Mark Hefflinger
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Seattle
– Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN) on Tuesday announced that it will release a version of its mobile
Kindle e-book reader application for phones running Google’s (NASD: GOOG) Android operating
system this summer. The free application will come with the same features
available on the Kindle apps for the iPhone and BlackBerry.


 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/whlbj

http://www.amazon.com/kindleforandroid

Facebook Integrates Shutterfly Photo Printing Service

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Mark Hefflinger
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Redwood City,
Calif. – Shutterfly, a provider
of photo book printing services, announced that it has partnered with Facebook
to let users order books of their albums and photos on Facebook. The
integration will let users select photos from Facebook, Shutterfly account, their
computer or other sites to include in their photo books, which start at $12.99.


 

Related Links:
http://ir.shutterfly.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=470255

http://snipurl.com/whlvi
(Wired.com)

Musicnotes.com Releases Digital Sheet Music App for iPad

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Mark Hefflinger
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Madison, Wisc. – Musicnotes.com, a publisher and retailer of
digital sheet music, announced on Tuesday the release of a Sheet Music Viewer
application for Apple’s iPad. The free app features caching of sheet music to
the iPad, and is currently limited to songs arranged in the Musicnotes format.


 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/whm3y

http://www.musicnotes.com/ipad

MySpace to Offer Simplified Privacy Settings

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Mark Hefflinger
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Los Angeles
– As Facebook faces increased scrutiny over its privacy policies and how users
are able to determine which elements of their profiles are seen by others, News
Corp.’s (NYSE: NWS) MySpace yesterday announced a "new, simpler" set of privacy
controls.

The company said it has had these changes in the works for some time,
but plans in coming weeks to offer privacy control settings including
"public," "friends only," and "public to anyone 18 or
over," and will set the default to "friends only."

"While
MySpace at its core is about discovery, self expression and sharing, we
understand people might want the option of limiting the sharing of their
information to a select group of friends," MySpace co-president Mike Jones
wrote in a blog post.

"We exist as a platform for our users and, as such,
maintain the interests of our users as a main priority in our business and
product decisions. We respect our users’ desires to balance sharing and
privacy, and never push our users to an uncomfortable privacy position."

 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/whk2d
(MySpace blog)

Associated Content

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Mark Hefflinger
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Yahoo to Acquire Associated Content for Reported $100M

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Mark Hefflinger
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Sunnyvale,
Calif. – Yahoo (NASD:  YHOO) announced on
Tuesday that it will acquire Associated Content, a publisher of aggregated content
from 380,000 contributors. While financial details of the deal were not
disclosed, All Things D cited sources pegging the purchase price at $90
million, while sources told AdAge that Yahoo paid slightly more than $100
million.

Founded in 2004, Denver, Colo.-based
Associated Content attracts more than 16 million monthly unique users.

Its
editorial staff reviews more than 50,000 pieces of content per month from paid contributors,
including articles, images, audio and video.

The company has raised more than
$21 million in venture capital to date, from backers including Softbank
Capital, Canaan Partners, and AOL CEO Tim Armstrong.

"Combining our
world-class editorial team with Associated Content’s makes this a
game-changer," said Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz.

"Together, we’ll create
more content around what we know our users care about, and open up new and
creative avenues for advertisers to engage with consumers across our network."

 

Related Links:
http://i.acdn.us/siteimg/yahoo_press_release.html

http://snipurl.com/whjdh
(All Things D)

http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=143947

http://www.associatedcontent.com

Funny or Die to Shutter U.K. Operations

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Mark Hefflinger
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London – Comedy website Funny
or Die is shuttering its U.K.
operations, citing financial difficulties, PaidContent reported.

The site, a
partnership with U.K. TV producer Hat Trick Productions, had been creating
original Web programming for nearly two years.

"Following an assessment of
the last 18 months, during which time Funny Or Die UK has seen numerous visitors
to its site who have in turn gone into the American site, the decision has been
made to merge the UK
site and content into the American Funny Or Die website," Hat Trick told
PaidContent.

 

Related Links:
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-funny-or-die-shutting-uk-site-/

http://www.funnyordie.com

Report: Several Top Sales Reps Leaving AOL

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Mark Hefflinger
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New York
– Several top sales reps from AOL (NYSE: AOL) recently have left the struggling Internet
company in search of greener pastures, Business Insider reports.

One of them,
according to unnamed sources, is Ali Van Putten, who earlier this year was named
a finalist for the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Sales Excellence Award.

The report listed a dozen former sales reps who have chosen to depart since AOL’s recent
reorganization shifted many of their duties.

The defections apparently have
hurt the company, which in April reported a 58% drop in first-quarter profits
and a 23% drop in revenue.

 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/whed8
(Business Insider)

Are You Interested in Using Spotify When It Becomes Available in the U. S. ?

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Joakim Baage
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