July 2008
EMI Names Piibe Global Head Of Digital Business... →
Mark Piibe has been upped to global head of digital business development for EMI Music. He will continue to work from the New York office and will report to Douglas Merrill, president of digital…
'A Matter Of Survival': New Jersey's Star-Ledger... →
The publisher of the The Star-Ledger says the paper is on “life-support” and so making a large-scale buyout offer as it hopes to shed 200 jobs, the paper reported. The buyouts are aimed at…
Morgan doesn’t have enough work to do. →
Morgan doesn’t have enough work to do.
Apple Says MobileMe Service Is Fixed, Finally →
Apple has restored its MobileMe service to all users, Apple said Tuesday night.In a third blog post, Apple blogger ‘David G.” said that “We have completed restoring Mail service, including historical…
Google to Extend Reach With Venture-Capital Arm... →
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal: Google to Extend Reach With Venture-Capital Arm — Ex-Entrepreneur Hired To Assist in Setup; Brand-Name Advantage — Google Inc. is…
New YouTube Audio Compression Stymies Uploaders →
Google’s wildly popular YouTube recently changed something about its audio-compression algorithm, making some newly uploaded music sound truly awful.
Google Acquires Omnisio To Spice Up YouTube... →
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Google Acquires Omnisio To Spice Up YouTube — Google has acquired Atherton, CA based startup Omnisio, the companies are announcing this…
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Dell's Trying Its Hand At Digital Music... →
Dell is trying its hand at a portable music player again, after failing to gain enough marketshare with earlier versions such as DJ Ditty. The new Dell player could go on sale by September, …
$10,000,000,000 Now $1 in Zimbabwe →
Zimbabwe will 10 zeros off the country’s hyper-inflated currency next month, making 10 billion dollars one dollar, the nation’s central bank governor said Wednesday. President Robert Mugabe…
Universal Opens LostTunes Deep Catalog Site →
Universal UK has launched LostTunes.com a deep catalog destination powered by 7Digital that according to the site focuses on “uncovering exclusives and hidden gems…Alongside the…
Nintendo Preparing New Console While Counting $992... →
Nintendo engineers are busily preparing new hardware, while trying not to break the concentration of Mario-in-Chief Satoru Iwata while he counts the $3.9 billion in sales and $992 million in…
Dell's Trying Its Hand At Digital Music Players,... →
Dell is trying its hand at a portable music player again, after failing to gain enough marketshare with earlier versions such as DJ Ditty. The new Dell player could go on sale by September, …
Posterous.com (YC Summer 2008) launches Autopost... →
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iPhone Apps We Like: Dynolicious Car Performance... →
Dynolicious is an all-purpose automotive performance meter, utilizing the built-in accelerometer in the iPhone and iPod touch to record your driving characteristics. BunsenTech, the makers of…
Amazon Offers Other Sites Use of Its Payment... →
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Stevenson Named Virgin US President →
EMI Music has appointed Rob Stevenson to president of Virgin US, effective Aug. 15.
MobileMe update: mail restored to 1% of users,... →
Filed under: Bad Apple, MobileMe
Good old David G., the mysterious author of Apple’s MobileMe Status blog, has good news for that unfortunate 1% of MobileMe users who couldn’t use…
Microsoft's plans for post-Windows OS revealed... →
David Worthington / SD Times On The Web: Microsoft’s plans for post-Windows OS revealed — Microsoft is incubating a componentized non-Windows operating system known as Midori,…
5% Layoffs Rumored At MySpace →
MySpace has starting laying people off, we’ve heard from a source close to the company. The final tally may be 5% of more of total staff, with engineering, sales and customer service taking…
Startup Hacks: Seven Ideas for Building Your Team →
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Sony BMG Loses $49 Million Last Quarter →
Sony BMG Music Entertainment lost $49 million (5.2 billion yen) on sales of $820 million ($87.06 billion yen) in its fiscal first quarter ended June 30.
Sirius, XM Complete Merger to Create Satellite... →
Well, it’s official: Sirius and XM satellite finally tie the knot to create a single entity that represents all of the country’s satellite radio programming.
A VC: Peer Producing A Web 2.0 Keynote →
Ignite tonight! →
Ignite NYC will be heating things up this very evening -
Ignite NYC: Soldering, Guerilla Knitting, & Bomb Shelters The first Ignite NYC is going to happen 7/29 at M1-5. We are going to…
Bits: Facebook Shuts Down Scrabulous →
Facebook has shut down Scrabulous a week after Hasbro sued to block the copycat of its Scrabble word game.
Hypebot Infiltrates Columbia Records Site With... →
There are many reasons why corporate and artist sites should not carry advertising. But the most obvious one is that outside ads change the conversation. In one of the few places that a marketer…
Walkmen Tap AimeSt For $5 Pre-Release →
Creative pre-release strategies seem almost a requirement lately and The Walkmen’s new album launch follows the pattern. Offered for $5 exclusively by variable price download leader …
Junk guitar class: still spots left →
Want to make an electric guitar from junk? Ranjit will teach you. There are still some spots left in his Electric Junk Guitar class Etsy labs in Brooklyn on The 30th (Wednesday). Sign up here!
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Launched at... →
Check out the new Bob Dylan.com
Launched at 12:01AM EST, July 29, 2008.
Avril Lavigne's $2 Million YouTube Payday: Not... →
Conventional wisdom on YouTube: Eyeballs go in, but no money comes out. Google can’t figure out how to sell ads against the videos it shows, so the people who make YouTube’s videos aren’t getting any…
trueAnthem Gets $2 Million Angel Round For Music... →
trueAnthem, a developer of widgets for musicians, has raised a $2 million angel round from unidentified investors. The SF-based company offers widgets that bands can use to distribute their music…
Warner Bros. Delays Dark Knight Piracy for 38... →
Warner Bros. didn’t want to lose one penny off of the precious early box office gross for The Dark Knight (one that traditionally favors Hollywood in the split over movie theaters), so they…
Know Your Stuff Inventories Your Home [Featured... →
Windows and Mac OS X: Offered as a free download from the Insurance Information Institute, the Know Your Stuff Home Inventory software is a full-featured tool for cataloging your…
RAWRIP Pays 100% Download Royalty →
RAWRIP, a new ad-supported music site and distribution service is paying indie artists 100% of royalties earned from downloaded tracks. Fans can stream music free and store songs in…
The App Store could spread like wildfire through... →
You may not realize it yet, but Apple’s newly launched App Store is going to transform the company again. Think of Apple without iTunes. Yeah, it’s hard to do now. Soon it will be the same way…
Cuil Exits Stealth Mode With A Massive Search... →
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Cuil Exits Stealth Mode With A Massive Search Engine — Menlo Park based Cuil will launch later this evening with an index of 120 billion…
Google AdSense On ColumbiaRecords.com →
This one comes courtesy of Bob Lefsetz and first perfectly with out new What Were They Thinking department. Columbia Records has ads from Vonage and Google’s AdSense running on…
NASA: 50 Years of Towering Achievement →
One of the indelible memories for anyone living through the 1960s was watching CBS newsman Walter Cronkite anchor another televised liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Throughout the decade, from…
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Apple admits to lost MobileMe messages, bad karma →
Apple’s Push-like MobileMe launch has been such a debacle that they’re now in damage control mode. As a result, some poor soul has been tasked by Steve Jobs to post status updates “every other day or…
Music startups should consider the Digital... →
I often wonder about the viability of the hundreds of music 2.0 startups that have launched over the last 24 to 36 months. It seems like one launches every day now. Not only are music startups…
Yahoo! Music Store Will Compensate Customers For... →
Yes, Yahoo! Music Store’s shutting down their DRM servers, but Big Purple’s said that it’ll definitely still be taking care of its customers. According to a Yahoo spokesperson, anyone who…
Send Business Cards to an Inbox or Mobile Phone →
As a rule of thumb, if you want to get your name out there and continuously make connections when traveling or attending conferences, having a business card is your best bet. While there are…
200 Top Art Collectors, compiled by ARTNews →
200 Top Art Collectors, compiled by ARTNews
Microsoft opens Xbox platform →
We’re at an interesting point in the development life cycle of third-party programs, those little software applications one can add to gadgets and social pages.Microsoft’s approach, confirmed…
Amazon To Power Upcoming MySpace Music Downloads →
The as-yet unlaunched MySpace Music will likely partner with Amazon to handle all music ecommerce transactions, we’ve heard from multiple sources. Apple and Rhapsody are also bidding for the…