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Join the Club: MOG Wants More Money for Digital Music, Too
Digital music service MOG, which raised $10 million a year ago and $15 million altogether, wants more. It’s out trying to put together a funding round of $25 million to $30 million. Nothing new there:...
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Skype, Microsoft and the Fate of Music Start-Up Rdio
While you’re debating what the Microsoft Skype deal means for investors and users, here’s another one: What does it mean for Rdio? It’s not an entirely random question. As a result of a complicated...
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Chill Out! Spotify on Facebook Is Cool, Not a Game Changer.
Are Facebook and Spotify linking up? Entirely possible. But before we get too excited about the prospect, here’s what a Facebook/Spotify pact would likely look like: Instead of using Spotify’s software...
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AOL Gets Into Music Subscriptions, Again
There are a lot of companies trying to sell monthly subscriptions for digital music services. Add one more: AOL. Later this summer the Web site will begin selling access to two new premium Web radio...
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Good Bet: We Can Stop Betting on Spotify's U.S. Launch Next Week
Alrighty. So we know that Spotify has a new round of funding, and deals with most of the big music labels, and we know that the music service itself says it’s coming to the U.S. soon. So when will it...
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Today! Spotify Comes To America, Finally.
OK, OK. Spotify’s in America. For some of you. The streaming music service, which has been trying to get to the U.S. for a couple long, grinding years, has finally done it. All four big music labels...
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Spotify's U.S. Score So Far: 1.4 Million Users, 175,000 Paying Customers
That Spotify invitation you scored may be a little less rare than you thought. The streaming music service has already signed up 1.4 million U.S. users for its free trial, according to a source...
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How Media Companies Play With Steve Jobs's New Rules: Give In, Go Around or...
Apple’s new subscription rules for its iTunes app store have been in effect for less than two months. But that’s long enough for us to get a good idea of how media companies are responding. Short...
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Rhapsody Bundles Music With MetroPCS, Forgets to Include a Discount
Music subscription services have been around forever, but have never really caught on. Services like Rhapsody, MOG, Napster and Rdio have had a hard time persuading many people to shell out a monthly...
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BlackBerry Music: $5 a Month, 50 Songs
Five dollars a month. Fifty songs you can share with your friends. But only on your BlackBerry, and their BlackBerries. That’s the basic pitch behind BBM Music, the new subscription service Research In...
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BlackBerry Launches Its $5 Music Service
Here’s the BlackBerry Music service we told you about last week: As we reported on Saturday, it’s 50 songs, tethered to your phone, for $5 a month. A couple of tweaks to my earlier report: Most...
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Facebook Inc. is preparing changes designed to make the site a hub for listening to music, watching movies and playing videogames, according to people familiar with the matter, in much the same way...
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Free Music For Everyone! Rdio Joins MOG, Spotify in the Big Digital Music...
Free, legal music on the web looked like a defunct business model just a few months ago. Now it seems to be going through a revival phase. Over the summer, Spotify finally opened for business in the...
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How to Solve the Mystery of Spotify and the Missing Coldplay Album
You can listen to just about any song in the world, for free, on Spotify. One big exception: ”Mylo Xyloto,” the new Coldplay album, which isn’t available on the streaming music service or any of its...
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Music for Nothing and the Fans for Free
Consumers won’t pay for recorded music in the future — but fans will pay for music experiences. When the dust finally settles between the artists, labels, and distribution companies, everyone will...
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Facebook's Overhaul Gives MOG a Rocket Ride
Hey, guess what happens when your Web service gets access to Facebook’s 800 million users? Bingo! Your service gets a lot more users. We’ve seen and heard this story several times since Facebook’s most...
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Free, Legal Music Downloads, Few Strings Attached
From the “sometimes you really can get a free lunch” file: Here’s a free, legal way to download music, with barely any strings attached. Said strings: You have to visit a certain brand’s Facebook page,...
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Hey Facebook, Where's That Timeline and Open Graph You Promised?
Two and a half months after Facebook promised that a huge revision of its self-expression and sharing tools were coming soon, users and developers are still waiting. Way back in September, Facebook...
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SoundTracking for Android Adds Spotify, Rdio Streaming
SoundTracking, the mobile music app that wants your song choices and album covers to be shared like postcards with friends, is branching out beyond the iPhone and launching an app that works on Google...
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Rara Sells Streaming Music to Everyone Who Hasn't Heard of Streaming Music
You get your legal music on the Web from services like Apple, Amazon, Google, Spotify and Pandora. Also, perhaps, from services like Rhapsody, MOG and Rdio, etc. Yet here comes one more, via Rara.com....
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