Monday’s Music Brief: Topspin, Merlin, Amazon, SXSW, Death Row & More
HYPEBOT FEATURES: Topspin Upgrades Direct To Fan Platform Merlin Completes Indie Deal With Catch Media's Play Anywhere Prince Goes Direct To Fans Op-Ed: Live Nation Ticketmaster Merger Is Too Good. Continue reading
REWIND: The Music Industry’s Week In Review
The stock market was a lot nicer to all of us including music stocks; so the real news shifted to the UK where Google pulled music videos off of YouTube, . Continue reading
DropPlay Blends YouTube, Pandora & Facebook
Name a song or artist and DropPlay finds if YouTube has it. Play it and ask for more songs by the same artist or in Pandora-like fashion, another button finds. Continue reading
Friday’s Music Brief: Live Tele-Conference Today, Bandize Invites, Myxer, You Tube, Mininova $’s & More
HYPEBOT FEATURES: Live Video: Music Industry Panel Today At Noon EST & 4PM GMT 30 Alpha Invites To Artist Organizer Bandize Why Own A Radio? Sirius Preps iPhone App DropPlay. Continue reading
Vodaphone Makes Mobile Music DRM Free With Three Majors On Board
Vodafone has signed deals with the Universal, Sony and EMI to sell tracks DRM free on both mobile phones and PCc with a rollout scheduled for this summer. Reuters reports. Continue reading
Apple’s New Talking iPod Shuffle
Apple's new iPod shuffle is nearly half of the size of the previous model, and its talks to you speaking song titles, artists and playlist names with the press of. Continue reading
The Converging of Cultures: MTV & YouTube (Part 3)
Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor Context Collapse In some cases, sharing the ‘same stage’ refers to the medium, but for others, their stage consists of playing music in their bedroom and. Continue reading
Thursday’s Music Brief: Artist Lobby For Merger, Ticket Scalping, RIAA Lawsuits & More
HYPEBOT FEATURES: Major Artists Lobby For Live Nation Ticketmaster Merger But Don't Disclose Azoff Connection Vodaphone Makes Mobile Music DRM Free With 3 Majors On Board The Converging of Cultures:. Continue reading
Music Xray acquires SONGboost assets
Music Xray has acquired the SONGboost software, algorithms and designs in exchange for cash and stock, from it's founder Bruce Warila. Hypebot readers may know Bruce from his writings on. Continue reading