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Staind To Open Doors On Mobile Pre-Orders
July 23, 2008 - Digital and Mobile | Rock and Pop
Atlantic Records is teaming up with Amazon.com to let Staind fans pre-order the band's upcoming album via mobile phones. » Full Story
Adelstein Reverses, Votes Against Satellite Merger
July 23, 2008 - Digital and Mobile
FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein voted against the proposed Sirius-XM merger after the satcasters refused to embrace any of the conditions he proposed to win his support for the deal. » Full Story
Mobile Carrier Centennial Preps Talent Competition
July 23, 2008 - Latin | Digital and Mobile
Puerto Rican mobile carrier Centennial is kicking off a cellphone vocal talent competition. » Full Story
Pretenders To Roll Out New Album As MP3s
July 23, 2008 - Digital and Mobile | Rock and Pop
The Pretenders will roll out their new album, "Break Up the Concrete," as one MP3 per week with a different partner leading up to the Sept. 23 CD street date via Shangri-La Music. » Full Story
CBS Radio Rolls Out Video
July 23, 2008 - Digital and Mobile
CBS Radio is upgrading all its station Web sites with video. » Full Story
TiVO, Amazon Pair For Purchasing Service
July 22, 2008 - Digital and Mobile
TiVO and Amazon.com are teaming up on a service that will let TiVO users buy products featured on the TV show they are watching. » Full Story
Group Projects Mobile Revenues To Top $13 Billion
July 22, 2008 - Digital and Mobile
Research group eMarketer predicts worldwide mobile music revenues will grow from $2.4 billion at the end of last year to $13 billion by 2012. » Full Story
AOL, Amex Back Tour Tracker
July 22, 2008 - Digital and Mobile
America Online and American Express have joined forces to present Tour Tracker, a Web site that lets fans track the tour dates of various acts, and provides links to buy tickets. » Full Story
FCC's Copps Rejects Satellite Merger Plan
July 22, 2008 - Digital and Mobile
FCC commissioner Michael Copps, a longtime warrior against media consolidation, voted against the proposed Sirius, XM satellite radio merger. » Full Story
Sky's No Limit As Universal Teams On MP3 Service
July 22, 2008 - Global | Digital and Mobile
Sky, the U.K.'s leading pay-TV provider, is entering the digital music marketplace with an adventurous service which allows subscribers unlimited access to downloads and streams. » Full Story
EMusic To Add New Features In Site Redesign
July 22, 2008 - Digital and Mobile | Indies
Digital music retailer eMusic will add content from social networking sites including YouTube and Flickr, as well as Wikipedia, in its six-month-long Web site redesign that began today. » Full Story
iLike Offers New Tools To Concert Promoters, Venues
July 21, 2008 - Digital and Mobile | Touring
iLike is reaching out to concert promoters with a new set of tools designed to transform its social music discovery service into a more overt advertising platform. The service won't launch until later this quarter. » Full Story
WMG Names Bryan Digital Strategy VP
July 21, 2008 - Digital and Mobile
Warner Music Group has made Stephen Bryan its new senior VP of digital strategy and business development. » Full Story
Paul Westerberg Offers New Album For 49 Cents
July 21, 2008 - Retail | Rock and Pop
Replacements frontman Paul Westerberg is the latest artist to embrace the Internet for rapid dissemination of new music. He recently made available a 44-minute single MP3 file of a dozen-plus songs, dubbed "49," for 49 cents. » Full Story
Vodafone Director Ferguson Joins Sony BMG
July 21, 2008 - Global | Digital and Mobile
Sony BMG Music Entertainment U.K. has hired former Vodafone executive Graeme Ferguson to the new position of SVP digital and strategic partnerships. » Full Story
Plugged & Unplugged: The Future Of 'Guitar Hero,' 'Rock Band'
July 18, 2008 - Digital and Mobile
Billboard senior digital correspondent Antony Bruno discusses the best and worst digital developments of the week. » Full Story
Jimi Hendrix To Land On ‘Guitar Hero’
July 17, 2008 - Digital and Mobile | Rock and Pop
Jimi Hendrix is coming to "Guitar Hero." It's the first time Hendrix's likeness will be showcased in the game. » Full Story
PlayPhone Bolsters Spanish Mobile Offering
July 17, 2008 - Latin
In a bid to reach the Latin marketplace, mobile aggregator/distributor PlayPhone has launched an all Spanish language site. » Full Story
StubHub Seals Deal With Virgin Fest
July 17, 2008 - Touring | Digital and Mobile
StubHub seals a partnership with the Virgin Mobile Festival, to be held Aug. 9-10 at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. » Full Story
Rhapsody Links With Death Cab For Ads
July 17, 2008 - Digital and Mobile
Online music service Rhapsody will use the chart topping group Death Cab for Cutie in its next ad campaign, Billboard.biz has learned. » Full Story
WMG Expands Mobile Offering With SendMe Deal
July 16, 2008 - Digital and Mobile | Record Labels
Warner Music Group is licensing its catalog to SendMe Mobile, a direct-to-consumer mobile content distributor. » Full Story
Carey, Rimes, Nas Bolster Samsung Outing
July 16, 2008 - Touring
Mariah Carey, Gavin Rossdale, LeAnn Rimes, Nelly and Nas, among others, will perform as part of the second annual Samsung AT&T Summer Krush, a free summer concert series designed to highlight Samsung's music-centric BlackJack II mobile phone. » Full Story
MTV Launches TV 'Soundtrack' Site
July 16, 2008 - Digital and Mobile
MTV unveiled an online, interactive music guide designed to help viewers learn more about the music they hear on the various MTV channels. » Full Story
No Price Cuts For U.K. iTunes Tracks
July 16, 2008 - Global | Digital and Mobile
Apple Computer will not go ahead with plans to cut the price of downloads on its market leading iTunes Music Store in the U.K., explaining that exchange rate changes meant there is no longer any discrepancy between prices in the U.K. and the European Union. » Full Story
Sony BMG Teams With Muzu TV
July 16, 2008 - Global | Digital and Mobile
Sony BMG U.K. has become the first major music company to strike a video content agreement with Muzu TV, an ad-funded online multimedia music service launching in Beta format today. » Full Story
 


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