Tag: Apple Inc.

LiveXLive Acquires Slacker Radio For $50 Million, Names Revolt TV’s Andy Schon President

Live concert streamer LiveXLive has acquired music streamer Slacker Radio and named Revolt TV co-founder Andy Schon as president. The merged companies create a potentially competitive streaming music service that. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 09/15/2017 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Tencent’s Cussion Pang On China’s Exploding Streaming Music Market

Tencent Music Entertainment CEO Cussion Pang talked up the Chinese music industry during a presentation at the 2017 Music Matters conference.

Bruce Houghton on 09/14/2017 in Major Labels | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Facebook Live Toolkit For Musicians

With Facebook now more of a video giant than ever, Facebook live has now become one of the best ways for artists to reach their fans. Here we look at. Continue reading

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Bandcamp Shares Impressive Stats, Adds Bulk Edits

Bandcamp is now the home to more than 22 million track and 4 million albums, the direct to fan music platform shared overnight.  But as discographies on Bandcamp have grown,. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 09/13/2017 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)
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The World Wide Web Of Music Influence [Infographic]

In this unique new info graphic, we look at the world's five most popular all time artists and map out their connections within Wikipedia in order to identify who influenced. Continue reading

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Apple Releases New & Improved iTunes 12.7 including Social Music Sharing For Apple Music

Following yesterday's iPhone X reveal that included a few nuggets for music lovers, Apple released a new and improved version of iTunes.  The big shift for iTunes 12.7 is that. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 09/13/2017 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)
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All The Music Announcements From Tuesday’s #AppleEvent [UPDATED]

[UPDATED] There were no major Apple Music announcements or Beats hardware launches at today's Apple launch event.  But there were a number of important announcements about how music is consumed. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 09/13/2017 in Apps, Mobile & SMS | Permalink | Comments (5)
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WED. BRIEF: Apple Releases iTunes 12.7 • Amazon Adds Music Merch • Deezer Goes Local • More

WEDNESDAY 9.13.17 Music Business News From Around The Web  Apple's big announcement threw music lovers a few nice crumbs yesterday. Updated continuously under our More News tab

Bruce Houghton on 09/13/2017 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Facebook Plays Money Card On YouTube

Further evidence that YouTube is doing its best to muscle in on YouTube's territory, the popular social network has offered the music industry a truckload of cash in exchange for. Continue reading

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We’re About To Be Reminded Of How Important Music Is To Apple: A Very Short List Of Today’s Music Announcements

We will be live tweeting Apple's much touted announcement of a new iPhone and more from our @hypebot account today. It's a big day for Apple, marking the 10th anniversary. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 09/12/2017 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)
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