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| Jul 14, 2016 | eMusic’s new owner TriPlay launches eStories, a new audiobook service | eMusic, the veteran digital music company that was acquired in 2015 by Israeli media startup TriPlay, is expanding its horizons. Today the company is launching eStories, an audiobook service that will offer 80,000 titles at a cost of $11.95... |
| Oct 24, 2015 | M&A roundup - week ending 10/24/15 | NASDAQ acquired SecondMarket Solutions; Time bought Hello Giggles; Docker picked up Tutum
NASDAQ acquired transaction software provider SecondMarket Solutions. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed.
SecondMarket will be integrated i... |
| Oct 20, 2015 | Music Download Site eMusic Gets Acquired Again, This Time By Israeli Media Startup TriPlay | Yet more consolidation afoot in the world of digital music, and a new chapter for eMusic, one of the very first sites that let you download music in the form of MP3 files. The company has been acquired by TriPlay, a startup based out of Isr... |
| Aug 24, 2012 | reKiosk Digitally Recreates The Independent Bookstore and Record Store Experience | While ebooks and digital music are becoming the dominant way of consuming books and songs, only a few digital retailers have become important players in this space. reKiosk is trying to bring to the web the buying experience that was lost a... |
| Jun 1, 2012 | SeatGeek Signs Its First Big Music Partners, Including AOL Music | Ticket search engine SeatGeek is best known as the place to find good deals on sports tickets, but it’s working to dominate ticketing for any live events, including concerts. It just announced its first partnership deals on the music side, ... |
| Jan 16, 2012 | Cult Rapper Sharkula and Finding Your Audience | Photo by Leor Galil |
| Jun 13, 2011 | Who Owns the Relationship with Digital Subscribers—Publishers, or Apple? | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The ascent of smartphones and tablets is causing a seismic shift in the way media companies reach consumers. As an iPad and iPhone owner, I now consume the bulk of my media on... |
| May 3, 2011 | Why now is the “second golden age” for VC tech investing, says new report | A new report issued today by venture capital company Clearstone Venture Partners on how well the venture capital community is doing says that VCs who put their money into technology startups now will get the best return on their money since... |
| Mar 2, 2010 | Head Of Affiliate Network Leaves Google, Joins Behavioral Marketing Firm | Behavior-based marketing solutions provider Catalina Marketing has scored a big win. The company, which specializes in precision marketing and shopper-driven media, has tapped former Google exec Chris Henger to run its Digital Services busi... |
| Jan 16, 2010 | Weekly Wrapup: Facebook Privacy, RFID in iPhone, Nexus Review, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup – our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week – we analyze and challenge Facebook’s sweeping new privacy policies, explore what would happen if RFID chips are integrated into the next generati... |
| Jan 12, 2010 | eMusic Reels In Another Major Label With Warner Music Deal | Digital music company eMusic is rumored to be up for sale, according to various reports, but that hasn’t stopped it from signing licensing deals with big music. This morning, eMusic announced that it come to an agreement with Warner Music G... |
| Jan 12, 2010 | Going Mainstream: eMusic Signs Deal with Warner Music | EMusic, the popular subscription-based music service, just announced that it has signed a deal with Warner Music, the world’s third-largest music company. This is eMusic’s second deal with a major record label. In its early days, eMusic mos... |
| Dec 28, 2009 | 10 Years After Napster, Musicians Are Still Getting Screwed | Ten years ago, Napster revolutionized commercial music by – we’re all grownups, let’s call a spade a spade – democratizing piracy.
Without doubt, consumers in 1999 needed better access to music. They needed the opportunity to preview full t... |
| Aug 27, 2009 | RightsFlow raises $1.5 million | Online music licensing startup expanding globally and building consumer site RightsFlow, a startup which offers licensing, accounting and royalty payment services for companies that sell or distribute music, has raised $1.5 million in fundi... |
| Jul 2, 2009 | eMusic Users Revolt Over Latest Changes | eMusic, one of the world’s largest subscription-based music retailers, has for the first time added music from Sony’s catalog to its store. Most users on eMusic subscribe to the service because of the eclectic selection of independent music... |
| Jun 4, 2009 | eMusic Trying To Censor Critics Of New Pricing Plan? [Updated… And Again] | We just wrote about the PR nightmare facing eMusic for announcing both a price increase and its first major record label signing at the same time — leading many to assume that the price increase was due to the Sony Music deal. Some in our c... |
| Jun 2, 2009 | Ten Years After Napster, Musicians Are Still Getting Screwed | Ten years ago yesterday, Napster revolutionized commercial music by – we’re all grownups; let’s call a spade a spade – democratizing piracy.
Without doubt, consumers in 1999 needed better access to music. They needed the opportunity to prev... |
| Jan 26, 2009 | Four Approaches to Music Recommendations: Pandora, Mufin, Lala, and eMusic | Thanks to MP3s and the Internet, we now have millions of songs readily available to us with the click of a button, but, paradoxically, this has often made it even harder to discover new music to listen to. Every online music store and every... |
| Dec 11, 2008 | Top 10 Records Of 2008 | One of the big changes on this blog in the past year is the departure of music posts. I moved my music posts to my tumblog in late 2007, where I post a new song everyday. You can experience them here by clicking on the "radio" lin... |
| Dec 8, 2008 | eMusic Tries Out A New Recommendation Engine; Redesigns Homepage | Indie music download subscription service eMusic is getting an overhaul. Individual artist an dalbum pages already have more of an AJaxy feel and incorporate YouTube videos and Flickr photos. On Friday, its homepage switched over to a new d... |
| Jul 23, 2008 | eMusic dances to new social rhythm, still has left foot | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Jun 30, 2008 | Rhapsody Embraces DRM-Free MP3s: Another Nail in The Coffin of DRM | Real Networks’ Rhapsody music service, which had only been a subscription service so far, is joining into the every expanding fray of music services selling DRM-free MP3 files. Real has signed deals with Universal, Sony BMG, Warner, and EMI... |
| Jan 24, 2008 | Yahoo is next to consider a DRM-free music store | Yahoo is reportedly in talks with major labels about a DRM-free music store. to offer them either for sale or for free in an ad-supported model.
Discussions are still preliminary, executives told the Associated Press under condition of anon... |
| Dec 18, 2007 | Ars Technica’s 2007 last-minute holiday gift guide | reader comments 0 with 0 posters participating
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| Oct 22, 2007 | Amazon surges to #3 music store – and four online music stores could be roadkill | Amazon’s music store has only been in business for a month, and rumors are flying that it’s already the #3 online music seller.
It’s still far behind Apple iTunes, but that might change. One rumor even pegs Amazon passing the second largest... |
| Sep 17, 2007 | DRM-free Audiobooks Coming Soon From eMusic.com | You may not know this, but eMusic.com is the second largest music downloading service. It’s got 10% of the market (to iTunes’ 71%) and "sells more than twice as many songs as competitors like Napster, Rhapsody, and Walmart.com" ac... |
| Aug 24, 2007 | Finding DRM-Free Music Online | Over the past half year we have seen arguably the most significant change in the online music industry since Apple launched their iTunes store in 2003. Following Steve Jobs’ open letter clarifying Apple’s position on digital rights manageme... |
| Jul 31, 2007 | AT&T to Offer Mobile Music Downloads from eMusic | AT&T on Tuesday announced the launch of its over-the-air music download service for its cellular subscribers, joining forces with eMusic to offer a catalog of 2.7 million songs. But the service won't run cheap: customers can pay $7... |
| Jul 31, 2007 | AT&T Partners with eMusic to Allow Customers to Preview and Purchase Music | Today AT&T announced the launch of an over-the-air music download service with eMusic, the largest retailer of independent music. This new service will AT&T subscribers the ability to preview and purchase music via their mobile hand... |
| Jul 15, 2007 | The Veils | The Veils
Originally uploaded by Mark Bruko.
Writing about music is so easy. I’ll find myself listening to something and I feel like I have to blog about the music. And that’s all there is too it.
We’ve been listening a lot to The Veils lat... |
| Jun 25, 2007 | Survey: Apple Fans Not Music Fans Will Buy iPhone | According to a study released Monday, only a small percentage of U.S. users actually use music phones to play back music.
The study, generated by Jupiter Research, found that five percent of consumers “sideload,” or shift songs from their P... |
| 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... |
| May 11, 2007 | AllTell Launches JumpMusic to Transfer Music to Phones | Jump Music is a piece of software designed by super-ninja design house frog design for AllTell phones. It’s essentially an iTunes alike and speeds up the transfer of music from your desktop to your “LG AX8600, MOTOKRZR K1m and MOTORAZR V3m,... |
| Feb 9, 2007 | EMI In Talks To Sell DRM-free MP3s | Hot on the heels of Apple’s Steve Jobs asking the music labels to drop DRM requirements for selling their digital downloads, London-based EMI (the third-largest record company) has whole-heartedly started investigating making the music on i... |
| Jan 23, 2007 | I'll Bet He's Wrong About That (continued) | Last September I wrote a post with the same title as this one in which I said:
David’s (David Card) a smart guy and generally right about stuff, but I’ll bet him a years worth of music on eMusic
that within 24 months at least one of the fou... |
| Jan 3, 2007 | Nuggets | I knew it was going to happen. I stopped my regular routine of mp3 of the week on mondays, cliches on wednesdays, and nuggets on fridays, and I basically stopped doing those posts entirely. I am a creature of habit.
The mp3 of the week post... |
| Dec 21, 2006 | Top 10 Records of 2006 - Number Three | I mentioned at the start of this series that my whole family got involved in my top ten picks this year. I gave them my list and they ranked all the choices. The final three records are all unanimous choices in my family. We may not agree a... |
| 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 – ... |
| Oct 8, 2006 | My Ideal Music System | IMG_0002
Originally uploaded by dw10157.
We aren’t far from it right now. Close enough that I can see the way to nirvana.
And this is nirvana (some of which I have, some of which I don’t):
– A multi-room audio system that allows you to play... |
| Sep 19, 2006 | Ben Kweller's New Record Released Today | If you’ve read this blog in the past four days, you’ll know that Ben Kweller is a big favorite in our house. Meeting him in front of the hotel on Saturday night just confirmed for me what a great guy he is (this is a photo of Ben with the G... |
| Sep 12, 2006 | eMusic’s European expansion | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Sep 5, 2006 | The thief’s Chihuahua, loopt, Snocap & more | Here’s a roundup of relevant Silicon Valley action, after the long weekend:
Yahoo employee sets up Flickr on his phone, and “captures” thief — Yahoo Web designer Ben Clemens, of Berkeley, said his phone was stolen, but that a program he’d i... |
| Sep 4, 2006 | I'll Bet He's Wrong About That | MP3.com Gotham Logo
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From the New York Times story on MySpace Music today:
“The majors aren’t going to distribute music unprotected on MP3,” said David Card, a senior analyst at Jupiter Research.
David’s a smart... |
| Sep 3, 2006 | Free Music | James Governor pointed me to this free new music sampler from Pitchfork and eMusic.
I’ve heard some of the music on this disc, like Just Drums from Tapes N Tapes and Woke Up New from The Mountain Goats but most of it is new to me.
With arti... |
| Aug 29, 2006 | Universal to try ad driven music downloads through SpiralFrog – still with DRM | If you’re familiar with this story, see the updated details at the end. Universal Music, the corporate parent behind labels like MoTown, Geffen Records and many more, announced this morning that they will be making their entire catalogue av... |
| Aug 29, 2006 | Spiral Fog | I was pretty jazzed to see that Universal Music is licensing its entire catalog to a free music service called Spiral Frog. But then I went and looked at the details. The free music will come with DRM on it.
That’s crap.
I actually don’t wa... |
| Aug 27, 2006 | Animal Collective - Thanks Andrew | He hasn’t even started yet, but our new analyst Andrew Parker is proving to be a valuable resource already.
I was reading his blog the other day and came upon this post on Animal Collective.
I went to the Hype Machine and played a few songs... |
| Apr 7, 2006 | Let’s Buy Some Music: Part 1 | We’ve analyzed the services that sell digital music (iTunes and its competitors). This Part 1 focuses on the pay-per-download services. In Part 2 (now posted) we’ll compare the all-you-can-eat subscription services.
While compact disc sales... |
| Mar 13, 2006 | MP3 of the Week | Last summer the Gotham Gal and I went to Town Hall to see The Eels in concert.
It was an amazing show which you can read all about if you click on the link.
They were filming the show and lo and behold there is a DVD of the show that you ca... |
| Jan 22, 2006 | Boycotting iTunes Music Store | James Governor took my iTunes 6 sucks post and goes one step further and proposes a boycott of the iTunes music store.
I’ve basically done that since I wrote that post. I buy my mp3s from emusic and if its not available on emusic, I buy the... |
| Jan 5, 2006 | iTunes 6.0 Sucks (continued) | Thanks everyone for all the suggestions (including Jackson who not surprisingly suggests going back to vinyl).
I have done two things
1 – set up an account on emusic. I bought the Great Lake Swimmers record from them already. And get this. ... |
| Jun 2, 2005 | Science Fiction Case Mod Contest: The First Winner! | Our first weekly case mod winner is 23-year-old David Barry, of Brooklyn, New York. David’s Star Wars TIE Figher mod blew us away. David gets 120 free downloads from eMusic.com. You can read about it below in his own words.–ed.
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| Sep 1, 2001 | Interview: Ogg Vorbis Frees the Music | While industry giants battle over a secure audio platform, a team of developers is taking a radically different approach -- establishing a completely open source music format free of any licensing restrictions. While still in its developmen... |
| Dec 20, 2000 | EMusic.com Takes On MP3.com In Copyright Lawsuit | At issue in the lawsuit, EMusic.com said, is the same online music
locker service that got San Diego, Calif.-based MP3.com in trouble
with the five major recording companies earlier this year. The
record companies successfully extracted mul... |
| Dec 12, 2000 | EMusic.com Adds Full Song Streaming | EMusic.com Inc. and the Harry Fox Agency Inc.
today said they amended their previous licensing agreement so the site
can add full-song streaming to its subscription service.
EMusic.com will pay the agency, a unit of the National Music Publi... |
| Dec 2, 2000 | EMusic Turns Up Heat On Napster Users | Internet music site EMusic.com [Nasdaq: EMUS]
says about one-third of the Napster users that have been warned to stop
sharing its music have complied.
Using newly developed software, EMusic.com on Nov. 21 began sweeping
Napster files to loc... |