Music Business Times Tech and Telephony Feed Informer http://feed.informer.com/images/fd.gif http://feed.informer.com/ http://app.feed.informer.com/digest3/RVN7RVFVUL.html Respective post owners and feed distributors http://feed.informer.com/ The deal moves Roxio’s products into Corel’s portfolio. Roxio is best known for software to create, edit, produce and play video and audio, including the Mac-user favorite Roxio Toast along with Roxio Creator, Roxio Game Capture, Roxio CinePlayer DVD Decoder and other titles. Corel also announced the first new product to emerge from the acquisition... http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2012/02/08/roxio-now-belongs-to-corel Delicious/mbtimes/tticker http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2012/02/08/roxio-now-belongs-to-corel? Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:33 GMT Entrepreneurs and investors take note: iLike went from a leadership position in social music to nothingness in less than the span between summer Olympics. iLike was a trailblazer in connecting people with music they love. It allowed music fans to follow their favorite artists' music and tour dates as well as buy downloads. It released a mobile app in 2009 that allowed people to track the concerts of their favorite artists - TechCrunch called it a 'must-have' for people who keep tabs on their local music scenes. Also in 2009 the company partnered with Google to include streaming song clips in search results... http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/digital-and-mobile/ilike-early-digital-music-trailblazer-officially-1006128952.story Delicious/mbtimes/tticker http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/digital-and-mobile/ilike-early-digital-music-trailblazer-officially-1006128952.story? Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:31 GMT The Sony/Universal owned video site VEVO has been accused of unfair play in the US by Matt Pincus, the boss of indie publisher Songs Music Publishing. Pincus claims VEVO is failing to pay royalties to independent music publishers, despite recently boasting $150 million in revenues last year, and of having paid $100 million over to rights owners in its first two years in business... http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/vevo-accused-of-short-changing-indie-publishers/ Delicious/mbtimes/tticker http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/vevo-accused-of-short-changing-indie-publishers/? Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:15 GMT Paul McCartney is now pulling both solo and Wings content from 'all streaming services.,' That of course encompasses Spotify, though a representative Wednesday morning clarified that removals on Spotify actually happened in 2010. McCartney and Wings content is getting ripped down from other streaming services, which suggests that this could be a 'streaming clean sweep' and a clean emphasis on other formats like downloading... http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2012/120207mccartney Delicious/mbtimes/tticker http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2012/120207mccartney? Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:12 GMT The Czech Republic has stopped ratification of the controversial anti-counterfeiting trade agreement (Acta), becoming the second EU country to do so after Poland. 'We cannot accept under any circumstances, that civil liberties and free access to information are threatened in any way,' Prime Minister Petr Necas said... http://euobserver.com/22/115154 Delicious/mbtimes/tticker http://euobserver.com/22/115154? Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:04 GMT When Drake used a midnight-hour drunk-dial from a female friend as the foundation for his single 'Marvin’s Room,' the bitter torch song became an instant hit on Twitter, sparked numerous covers and racked up millions of views on YouTube. But now the song is at the center of a new lawsuit. Ericka Lee claiming she had a relationship with Drizzy, alleges she was the voice on the phone that was used for the track.... http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2012/02/drake-no-merit-to-marvins-room-lawsuit.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PopHiss+%28Pop+%26+Hiss+Music+Blog%29 Delicious/mbtimes/tticker http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2012/02/drake-no-merit-to-marvins-room-lawsuit.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PopHiss+%28Pop+%26+Hiss+Music+Blog%29? Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:47 GMT Warner Music Group Chairman Edgar Bronfman, Jr. is a big fan of Spotify. In what was likely his final interview before leaving Warner Music, Bronfman defended Spotify's ability to drive more value for artists and labels. 'Everywhere we look, Spotify is incrementally positive,' Bronfman said. He noted that the streaming music startup is 'a real and growing revenue stream.' Bronfman claimed that part of the success comes from a deal that Warner Music helped to negotiate that passed on more value to labels and artists. 'They have Warner Music to thank for a much better economic deal. We insisted on a much stronger deal and refused to sign unless we got that deal,' he said... http://gigaom.com/2012/01/31/bronfman-spotify/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OmMalik+%28GigaOM%3A+Tech%29 Delicious/mbtimes/tticker http://gigaom.com/2012/01/31/bronfman-spotify/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OmMalik+%28GigaOM%3A+Tech%29? Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:31 GMT Streaming radio aggregator TuneIn today launched a new analytics platform intended to provide broadcasters with free detailed info about their online listening. Called TuneIn Amplifier, the service reveals how many unique listeners tuned in, how many total listens (or 'tunes,' bascially the equivalent of session starts) the station accumulated and listening hours. Each metric, of course, only includes listeners who used TuneIn's website or apps to stream... http://www.kurthanson.com/news/web-radio-aggregator-breaks-audience-measurement-turf-tunein-amplifier Delicious/mbtimes/tticker http://www.kurthanson.com/news/web-radio-aggregator-breaks-audience-measurement-turf-tunein-amplifier? Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:58 GMT For the embattled music industry, hope lies inside a small corner store in the City Heights section of San Diego. In a neighborhood chock-full of Mexican, Vietnamese and Somalian restaurants, Larry Woelfel, a 40-year-old unemployed lab technician, waited with two dozen customers to buy cellphones and service from a San Diego company called Cricket Wireless. By also signing up for Cricket's MuveMusic digital music service, Woelfel illustrates Cricket's emergence as one of the music industry's best hopes for tapping a vast underserved audience... http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-cricket-20120207,0,2200481.story Delicious/mbtimes/tticker http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-cricket-20120207,0,2200481.story? Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:50 GMT People often think that Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks - you know like the ones that knocked the Department of Justice, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and Universal Music recently – require hundreds of attackers generating gigabytes of traffic per second to pound a Website down into the ground. Ah, no they don't... http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/ddos-attacks-size-doesnt-matter/1982 Delicious/mbtimes/tticker http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/ddos-attacks-size-doesnt-matter/1982? Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:47 GMT