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| Aug 29, 2011 | MP3Tunes Likes Sound of Court Ruling, PureForge Raises $4.5M, Qualcomm Backs AliveCor, & More San Diego BizTech News | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Managing complexity was a recurring theme at a global conference on data mining and predictive analytics held in San Diego last week, and sometimes it’s a recurring theme here... |
| Aug 23, 2011 | MP3tunes Wins in Landmark ‘Cloud Piracy’ Case Against EMI | After several years the court case between EMI and MP3tunes has come to an end, and the verdict can be seen as a clear victory for the music storage service.
The ruling handed down by Judge William Pauley yesterday confirms that MP3tunes “d... |
| Aug 22, 2011 | Federal Judge Finds Cloud Music Lockers Do Not Violate Copyrights | A federal judge in New York ruled today in the defendant’s favor on a copyright infringement case brought EMI and 14 record companies against cloud music locker service MP3tunes. Judge William H. Pauley III found that cloud-based music lock... |
| Apr 29, 2011 | Behind The Scenes: Record Label Demands From Amazon | This is a guest post from Michael Robertson, a 12-year veteran of the digital music business. He is the founder and former CEO of digital music pioneer MP3.com. He is currently the CEO of music locker company MP3tunes..
Amazon defied the re... |
| Apr 3, 2011 | Amazon, Music, And A Sunny Forecast For The Cloud | Editor’s note: Guest author David Porter is the CEO and founder of 8tracks, the handcrafted internet radio network.
Last week, Amazon launched its Cloud Drive, with an emphasis on music storage. While there have been a number of “jukebox” s... |
| Mar 31, 2011 | Music industry will force licenses on Amazon Cloud Player—or else | reader comments 137 with 102 posters participating
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| Mar 29, 2011 | Will Amazon Drive Music Lockers Like MP3Tunes And mSpot Beyond Oblivion? | Make no mistake about it: the digital music space will be turned upside down this year, courtesy of giants like Apple, Google, HP, Sony and now, Amazon.
Earlier today, the latter announced that it was entering the world of digital music loc... |
| Jan 25, 2011 | With Storage on the Line, Google Supports Copyright Lawsuit | Google recently joined a lawsuit as a friend of MP3tunes, a service that will face off on Friday against EMI, the giant record label that seems to be in continual financial distress.
The lawsuit will unfold in a New York federal courtroom, ... |
| Dec 4, 2010 | EMI Promotes Music on ‘Piracy Haven’ RapidShare | It is no secret that BitTorrent and other file-sharing sites and networks are used as a marketing tool by the entertainment industry.
TV-industry insiders have admitted to uploading shows to BitTorrent in advance to generate buzz, and bands... |
| Aug 4, 2010 | Apple Launches Cloud Music Service in Uncharacteristic Fashion | Michae Robertson of MP3tunes.com, the new functionality lets people stream music to their Apple devices by using the online storage service that comes with iDisk, a service similar to Google Docs.
The move is interesting for several reasons... |
| Jul 26, 2010 | AudioBox.fm hits iPhone, lets you stream your music collection from the cloud | AudioBox.fm, the cloud-based music service that lets users upload their music collection and access it anywhere, has added the iPhone/iPod touch to its list of supported devices through a native application.
Previously, iPhone users could o... |
| Jul 12, 2010 | The MP3Tunes Alternative To Paid Streaming Music: "Buy Anywhere, Listen Everywhere" | We’ve been following MP3Tunes, an online music locker, since it launched in late 2005. It’s come a long way since then. Today the service has 500,000 users, and has released a variety of new products to help those users get access to their ... |
| Jul 12, 2010 | MP3tunes Wants You to “Buy Anywhere, Listen Everywhere” | MP3tunes, which offers cloud storage and playback for your music library, just launched a new initiative called “Buy Anywhere, Listen Everywhere” which highlights how the service’s users can buy music from any of the major online music vend... |
| May 15, 2010 | MP3tunes Makes An Offer to Lala Customers | The speculation about Apple launching its own streaming service in place of Lala is fueling the competition for online music services.
Apple acquired Lala last year. The popular service sold songs for 10 cents. The songs streamed in web bro... |
| Apr 30, 2010 | Apple Shuts Down Lala: Here are 5 Alternatives | Apple plans to shut down Lala, the cloud-based streaming music service it bought in December 2009. Lala stopped accepting new users today and will close on May 31. Thanks to its unlimited music locker and innovative pricing scheme, Lala had... |
| Apr 28, 2010 | MP3tunes Launches Free 10GB Music Lockers with iPhone Streaming (Exclusive Invites) | MP3tunes, which was launched by tech entrepreneur Michael Robertson in 2005, allows its users to store their own music in the cloud. Until today, however, the amount of free storage on MP3tunes was limited to a relatively meager 2GB. Now, h... |
| Jan 19, 2010 | MP3.com Founder Michael Robertson Explains Apple’s Cloud Music Strategy | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
San Diego’s Michael Robertson, who founded several startups since he sold MP3.com in 1997, offered some observations about online music providers and other aspects of the digi... |
| Nov 3, 2009 | MP3tunes Founder Fights Court Decision That Could Help Music Labels Bankrupt Him | Two years ago, a bunch of labels affiliated to music giant EMI Group sued both MP3tunes and its infamous founder Michael Robertson – former founder and CEO of MP3.com and currently running VoIP startup Gizmo5 – over alleged copyright infrin... |
| Aug 7, 2009 | Spotify, Napster and The Quest For Premium Music Dollars | This guest post on the struggles of online music services to reach profitability is written by Michael Robertson, the founder of music sites MP3.com and MP3Tunes, as well as a number of non-music related startups like Gizmo and Dealipedia. ... |
| Apr 22, 2008 | MP3tunes.com being sued by EMI, asks users for help | Seems nobody wants to let Michael Robertson help people back up their music online. First it was My.MP3.com which, as you may or may not remember, was a very cool service where you placed one of your CDs in your computer’s CD-ROM drive, the... |
| Mar 28, 2008 | EMI Suffers A Setback In Case Against MP3Tunes | The record labels love to sue Michael Robertson, the founder of MP3.com (sold to Vivendi in 2001 for $372 million) who now incubates a number of Web startups. One of them is MP3Tunes, which is billed as a music storage locker. But the recor... |
| Jan 23, 2008 | 38 free/cheap music sites — Welcome to the fray, Qbox! | Ever since Napster brought free MP3s mainstream — and subsequently garnered the wrath of the Recording Industry Association of America — the music industry has been reeling.
No single strategy for listening to music online has come to domin... |
| Jan 15, 2008 | 100 Invites for Musana, The "Music Happiness Center" | Musana, a digital music locker service based in France, has offered to allow the first 100 of our readers who email this address into its private beta.
I’ve tried Musana out and it’s quite bare-boned. Upload MP3s from your computer and you ... |
| Oct 15, 2007 | DRM-free music could signal the end for paid 'celestial jukeboxes' | Breaking news, guys. Like, b-r-e-a-k-i-n-g. You may have heard about that stunt Radiohead pulled last week, giving away their music for whatever you feel it’s worth. Well now the pundits are out and have declared DRM dead. Or something!
But... |
| Sep 11, 2007 | Roundup: AjaxWindows, Lemonade, MobiBucks, “racetrack” memory and more | Summary:
*AjaxWindows offers operating system in the browser
*IBM researcher says “racetrack memory” could unseat flash
*Noise reducing headset Jawbone wins backing from Sequoia
*Lemonade, latest company to offer online kiosks
*Adobe previe... |
| Jun 7, 2007 | Maestro streams — straight into legal question | Maestro wants to enable you listen to your music collection wherever you go — no iPod required.
The two year old Atlanta-based company, which had earlier tried and failed to bring a hardware music player to market, has developed a portal th... |
| Feb 12, 2007 | MP3tunes Storage Service Now Free | MP3tunes, the company started in 2005 by MP3.com founder Michael Robertson, is dropping the yearly fee for its Oboe digital music locker service that offers unlimited storage and high-quality streaming over the Web.
The service is designed ... |
| Dec 8, 2006 | Web-based Media Player Lets You Stream Your iTunes To Any Computer | Streampad is a Web-based media player that gives users access to their digital music library from any computer. Similar to Songbird, it streams your personal library from the Internet but it runs completely inside any browser.
Streampad is ... |
| Dec 2, 2005 | Oboe's Web Music Locker | I begged for this in a post last week about companies I’d like to profile that don’t exist yet (no. 1 – “better and cheaper online storage”). MP3Tunes nailed it with a product suite called Oboe.
Oboe offers unlimited online storage of music... |
| Nov 30, 2005 | MP3tunes Debuts Online Music Storage | MP3.com founder Michael Robertson is reviving an old service with a new twist as part of his new venture called MP3tunes. The company on Wednesday launched Oboe, an online music storage locker that offers syncing and streaming capabilities.... |
| Feb 9, 2005 | MP3Tunes Opens Doors to the Public | As previously reported by BetaNews, former CEO of MP3.com Michael Robertson announced the official launch of MP3Tunes on Wednesday. Songs can be downloaded for 88 cents each, or $8.88 per album.
All MP3Tunes songs have no digital rights man... |