Archive for December, 2009
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) MySpace told users of its recently acquired imeem music streaming service that "the MySpace Music team is working around the clock to duplicate your imeem playlists" -- a popular feature that was not immediately preserved during the acquisition, TechCrunch reported. Due to imeem's financial situation, the ...
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
Mobile content firm Myxer has launched a new service called MobileStage, which aims to help artists and labels market themselves for mobile users.
It’s a bit like MySpace’s web version, allowing artists to create mobile websites, manage their fanlists, and even create their own apps for iPhone, BlackBerry and Android. “We ...
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
Mobile ringtone and media provider Myxer is expanding into artist services with a new program called MobileStage. Dubbed the "MySpace for Mobile," MobileStage is a suite of mobile marketing tools and services for iPhone, BlackBerry and Android devices.
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
Now that the digital equivalent of a super-vac, MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta, has sucked up some decent music start-ups--Imeem and iLike--for a song, to bolster the social-networking site's efforts to expand into an entertainment portal, what's next?
According to several sources, the News Corp. unit has turned its omnivorous attentions ...
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
Not willing to let Facebook and Twitter completely own the market for searchable, up-to-the-minute information, MySpace announced on Wednesday a set of new developer application programming interfaces (APIs) designed to let third-party sites access more of its content.
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
Not willing to let Facebook and Twitter completely own the market for searchable, up-to-the-minute information, MySpace announced on Wednesday a set of new developer application programming interfaces (APIs) designed to let third-party sites access more of its content.
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Here's an interesting study in contrasts. When MySpace acquired iLike back in August, MySpace left the site mostly intact. The iLike home page is still there, you can still add iLike's music-finding and sharing application to your Facebook page, and iLike is given prominent placement in Google search results for ...
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
GOOGLE adding real time results to its search engine overnight, taking feeds from Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and other fresh content into responses to queries.
"We are here today to announce Google real-time search," Google fellow Amit Singhal said at the firm's headquarters in Mountain View, California.
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
MySpace has launched a UK version of MySpace Music in a bid to compete directly with streaming sites like Spotify and Last Fm.
The site, which helped launch the careers of Lily Allen and Kate Nash, claims it has "the most comprehensive catalogue" on the internet.
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