Archive for February, 2009
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
…Webcasters blew a golden opportunity to reach an accord that would have given them much of what they asked for. [MORE]
Tags: fees, last.fm, pandora, radio, riaa, soundexchange, webcasters
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Saturday, February 21st, 2009
…word is going around that the RIAA asked social music service Last.fm for data about its user’s listening habits to find people with unreleased tracks on their computers. [MORE]
Tags: last.fm, on-demand, privacy, radio, riaa, streaming
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
February 16, 2009: The NAB and SoundExchange have come to an agreement on Internet streaming rates for local radio stations that simulcast their programming online or create new Internet-only stations. [MORE]
Tags: fees, internet, radio, rates, soundexchange, streaming
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Troubled satellite radio company Sirius XM announced Tuesday, following reports, that it will accept an investment from cable giant Liberty Media. [MORE]
Tags: bailout, bankrupt, liberty media, radio, satellite, sirius, xm
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Friday, February 13th, 2009
Google is pulling the plug on its Google Audio Ads and Adsense for Audio products, and is looking to sell off its Google Radio Automation software business. [MORE]
Tags: ads, adsense, audio, automation, google, radio, streaming
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Friday, February 13th, 2009
The update, which will be submitted to the Android Market this Saturday, will give streaming songs TuneWiki’s lyrical capabilities, as well as its social networking enhancements. [MORE]
Tags: android, lyrics, mobile, pandora, radio, streaming, tunewiki
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
The Sirius and XM satellite radio companies may have succeeded in merging, but their combined company could declare bankruptcy within the year. [MORE]
Tags: bankruptcy, radio, satellite, sirius, xm
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Pandora founder Tim Westergren thinks being broad isn’t necessarily the best strategy for development in the smartphone industry and that betting on a single (what he calls a “hero”) platform could be the way to go. Hint: it’s not a Blackberry or Google’s Android. [MORE]
Tags: iphone, mobile, palm, pandora, pre, radio, streaming
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