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| Sep 8, 2010 | Amazon Acquires Amie Street, But Not In A Good Way | Amie Street is one of those startups that just got me – love at first site if you will. I first discovered them in 2006, calling it an awesome new music model. Artists upload songs and those songs are free to download to start. As more down... |
| Sep 8, 2010 | Amazon buys music service Amie Street | Site shut down planned for Sept. 22; founders begin working on new music service - Songza
Amie Street announced Wednesday that it's been acquired by Amazon for an undisclosed amount. The news comes three years after the giant online retaile... |
| 2010 | 2010: My Fifth Annual List Of The Tech Products I Love And Use Every Day | It’s time for my annual list of technology products that I love and use every day. This is the (wow) fifth year I’ve done this. Here are my previous lists: 2009, 2008, 2007 and 2006. The scope of the list has changed over time. In 2006 it w... |
| Oct 8, 2009 | Amie Street raises $3.9 million for online music store | Amie Street, an online music store that prices songs in a dynamic way, has raised $3.9 million in a second round of funding.
The company introduces new songs as free downloads and then raises the price as the songs are downloaded more often... |
| Oct 8, 2009 | Amie Street raises $3.9 million | Digital music store draws new funds for dynamically-priced song sales
Amie Street, not just another online digital music store, has raised a $3.9 million Series B round of funding. Deep Fork Capital led the round; the other investors have n... |
| Sep 22, 2009 | Sony joins indies at Amie Street—without dynamic pricing | reader comments 7 with 7 posters participating
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Indie music haven Amie Street is going bigtime with its first deal with a major label. The company announced today that it ha... |
| Sep 22, 2009 | Sony First Big Label To Try Amie Street Variable Music Pricing | Amie Street always made sense to me. The idea is to show demand for music via variable pricing. Songs start off free and move up in price (up to 98 cents) as more people buy them. I first wrote about them in 2006 when the founders were stil... |
| Aug 27, 2009 | Uncle Sam’s infosec briefing gives short shrift to copyright | reader comments 40 with 34 posters participating
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The US government's annual information security briefing is making the rounds online thanks to a questionable slide or two ... |
| Aug 25, 2009 | How to discover new and interesting music online | reader comments 85 with 81 posters participating
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Everyone has faced this conundrum at one point or another: you're sick and tired of the music in your library, but you can'... |
| Aug 22, 2009 | Your Guide To Music On The Web – Part #1 | I’m a Web fanatic, I admit. But you probably already knew that… My work environment has been completely web based for years now. The same applies to my music. Like many people, I used to download music from Kazaa or eMule (Yeah, I know some... |
| Apr 8, 2009 | News Flash: Amie Street Swallowed Songza Six Months Ago | For months, popular music store Amie Street has kept a deal it forged with Songza, a media streaming service, under wraps. But this tweet (and a fair amount of research on our part) has uncovered the news: Amie Street acquired Songza back i... |
| Apr 8, 2009 | Roundup: Aggregated links to newspaper web sites, and more | Here’s the latest action:
As an online publication largely comprised of former newspaper journalists — It’s pretty obvious what we here at VentureBeat think about newspaper leaders demanding payment anytime anyone aggregates any of their co... |
| Mar 20, 2009 | SpiralFrog croaks | reader comments 11 with 11 posters participating
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SpiralFrog, the ad-based music download service that launched in September 2007, has apparently closed its doors without wa... |
| Jan 5, 2009 | Popularity goes DIY for artists with Band Metrics | Independent musicians looking to launch their careers online will soon have a brand new tool to measure their popularity in real time: Band Metrics. Its parent company, Atlanta-based Indie Music, raised an undisclosed angel round of funding... |
| Jan 4, 2009 | 2009: Products I Can't Live Without | At the beginning of each year I traditionally publish a list of my favorite startups and products. This is the fourth year I’ve done this – previous lists: 2006, 2007, 2008. You guys get to pick the winners of the Crunchies – this list is a... |
| Dec 1, 2008 | SellaBand takes its bands and fans live with ArenaWorks deal | SellaBand, an online platform that allows fans to contribute seed money to aspiring bands, has just taken its service to a whole new level. It announced today that it will partner with ArenaWorks Entertainment to take bands that are able to... |
| Oct 15, 2008 | Amie Street Sheds Its Barebones Look, Gets Professional With Site Redesign | Amie Street, the music store that sells songs on a sliding price scale based on how popular they are, has launched a totally revamped website and new features including a new music player and an enhanced recommendation system. We’ve been bi... |
| Oct 15, 2008 | AmieSt relaunches with more custom features for music lovers | AmieSt, the online digital music store that relies on users to determine the popularity and purchase price of artists’ content, reveals a new site design and a handful of new features today. Most of the site’s new features include more cust... |
| Oct 7, 2008 | Wikia lets companies add their widgets as search results | If you want the most useful information possible to appear in response to a search, why not allow information portals like the community news aggregator Digg and travel site Kayak add it themselves? Search Wikia is opening itself up to allo... |
| Aug 18, 2008 | What Would the Perfect Streaming Music Service Look Like? | Pandora‘s on the ropes, Imeem is taking off, Grooveshark relaunched today with recommendations and a long list of cool features, Blip.fm threatens to make Muxtape look like old news – the streaming music market online is expanding and contr... |
| Aug 6, 2008 | Y Combinator's Popcuts Pays You To Find Good New Music | The web is full of hipsters scouring the indie music scene for the next big thing. And while there is no shortage of communities where these trendsetters can share their picks, they’ve never stood to gain anything from being ahead of the cr... |
| Jul 28, 2008 | Get The Walkmen Album Early, Help Charity On Amie Street | Amie Street, the indie music store that prices songs by their popularity, has pre-released The Walkmen’s new album You & Me three weeks before its scheduled launch date. The entire album is available for $5, with all proceeds going to t... |
| Jul 9, 2008 | After Lively, What’s Next for Google? | Yesterday, Google released Lively, a browser based virtual world somewhat reminiscent of The Palace from the mid-90s. A lot of people have been wondering why Google would be interested in entering this market, but according to Hitwise, it s... |
| Jul 9, 2008 | myAWOL: A Music Label For The Digital Age | The big music labels have made it patently obvious that they don’t know how to deal with the internet. Revenues are down, the market is fragmented, and indie artists that manage to gain a following find that they have little need for the la... |
| Jun 29, 2008 | Rhapsody Agrees DRM Is Dead; Launches MP3 Store | Streaming music service Rhapsody has joined the likes of Wal-Mart, Amazon, and Napster by launching an MP3 store.
Its move to offer unprotected music downloads has been anticipated since last Fall when Real Networks joined forces with MTV a... |
| Jun 24, 2008 | Amie Street Lands Big Content Deal With The Orchard | Amie Street, the music store that features dynamic pricing that varies according to a song’s popularity, has secured a deal with digital music distributor The Orchard, which holds a catalog of over 1 million songs. For the time being not al... |
| Apr 8, 2008 | Amie Street Loves Prostitutes | When you think of prostitutes, you usually think of vice and the dark side of the Valley, and not something most startups would want to be associated it. Independent online music service Amie Street not only loves them, they’re probably pra... |
| Mar 14, 2008 | Spitzer call girl’s music suddenly in vogue on Amie Street | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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A funny thing happened in the wake of the Eliot Spitzer scandal that erupted over the course of this past week—aside from the f... |
| Mar 13, 2008 | Could Spitzer Scandal Take Skype Video Mainstream? | While Eliot Spitzer’s predilection for hookers (sorry, high priced call-girls) has made headlines worldwide, video over Skype may end up as a beneficiary.
Marked as a first for national TV, CNN used Skype Video to conduct a live interview M... |
| Dec 25, 2007 | Top Web Apps & Sites of 2007 | It’s the end of the year and so time for ‘best of’ and prediction posts, which are a lot of fun. Today I’ve been re-organizing my Firefox bookmarks, which made me reflect on which web apps and sites I’ve used the most this year. I encourage... |
| Dec 19, 2007 | Amazon Helping To Change The Business Of Music | The signs are everywhere that a revolution is taking place in music. DRM is history, the price of music is falling towards zero (and sometimes even free isn’t enough to slow piracy), and even big music sites like Yahoo are beginning to brea... |
| Nov 16, 2007 | Listen To Top Indie Songs On Your iPhone | Mzinga isn’t the only new product launching tonight at the Boston TechCrunch Party. Massachusetts based OurStage is debuting a new iPhone site where anyone can listen to top ranked Indie songs as well.
Ourstage, which launched in March 2007... |
| Sep 18, 2007 | Myxer Works with AmieStreet on Ringtones | Myxer has been at this weeks TechCrunch conference (the flagship of all the Crunches) showing its wares, when it announced yesterday that Myxer has been hired by AmieStreet to create and distribute mobile ringtones. The Myxer platform simpl... |
| Aug 15, 2007 | Amie Street: Low Cost, DRM-free Music Downloads | By Guest Author Steven Finch
Amie Street is an online music store that has two key features: their unique pricing model and DRM-free downloads.
The Amie Street pricing model is quite simple – all songs start free and rise in price the more ... |
| Aug 5, 2007 | Amazon backs Amie Street, music site | Amazon.com, continuing its spurt of initiatives to keep up with new technology, has invested an undisclosed amount to music site AmieStreet.com.
This is the first round of financing for New York City’s AmieStreet.com, a year-old online digi... |
| Aug 5, 2007 | Amie Street Closes Series A Financing Led By Amazon.com | Social music marketplace Amie Street has closed a Series A round of financing led by Amazon.com, along with some new partnerships and a site redesign. The amount of Amazon’s investment and the terms are not disclosed.
We’ve been big fans of... |
| May 16, 2007 | Amazon to Offer DRM-free MP3 Downloads | Amazonannounced today that they will begin selling DRM-free MP3 music downloads from over 12,000 labels, the largest being EMI. EMI, of course, was the first major record label to sell music without DRM via Apple’s iTunes store earlier this... |
| Mar 7, 2007 | Amie Street signs major artists to sell DRM-free music | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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As the music DRM debate rages on, some services are moving forward with DRM-free music and are starting to sign on some major n... |
| Mar 6, 2007 | Music Service Lets Customers Set Prices | Amie Street has signed a deal with Nettwerk Music Group that will bring several major bands to a music service without DRM, and where popularity determines the price. But the first order of business appears to be obtaining more bandwidth.
A... |
| Mar 5, 2007 | Barenaked Ladies: New Album. Free. No DRM. Now. | I’ve been writing about the Amie Street music site since their launch last July. Their model has the potential to disrupt the music industry from the bottom up: Bands and labels upload music, which is downloadable in DRM-free MP3 format. Th... |
| Jan 30, 2007 | Roundup: Bombs, don’t do Delaware, MySQL IPO & more | Correlation between bomb building and entrepreneurship? — Former PayPal chief executive Peter Thiel reportedly says four of six founders of the online payment service built bombs while in high school. Meanwhile, Silicon Valley venture capit... |
| Jan 26, 2007 | Amie Street Begins Data Mining and Artist Promotion | Amie Street is one of my favorite startups right now, partially because they are the embodiment of (what I consider to be) the perfect music model: DRM-free MP3s sold at pure market driven prices.
The company’s business model is dead simple... |
| Jan 18, 2007 | Jigg That Music | iJigg is a new, easy-on-the-eyes music site that launched a couple of days ago – we first saw it on the TechCrunch Forums.
Think Digg for music, plus lots of Flash functionality. Songs are presented on the home page and can be “jigged” by m... |
| Dec 14, 2006 | Bill Gates On The Future Of DRM | Microsoft convened a small group of bloggers today at their Redmond headquarters to discuss the upcoming Mix Conference in Las Vegas. Highlights of the day included:
The receipt of a Zune as a gift (the third I’ve received from Microsoft – ... |
| Dec 10, 2006 | New Ways to Get Music | Big record companies are starting to see their market eaten into by consumers and musicians alike, who are tired of paying inordinate tributes to the powers in Hollywood. And the populace is getting new ways to select the next big singing s... |
