Spotify began as a Swedish online music streaming application that launched in Europe in October 2008. By integrating years of technology advances into their product,…
Microsoft’s new “Xbox Music” service is the company’s latest dive into a burgeoning market for music streaming and a lifestyle approach towards media consumption. The…
When Pandora Internet radio entered the market with a strong initial public offering in 2011, a reporter from Bloomberg TV asked the Chairman and CEO,…
Electronic Dance Music (EDM) is surging to the forefront of mainstream tastes. If you have turned on the radio, watched TV, or attended a music…
Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup has taken the business world by storm in the way that only books that sum up complicated ideas in…
The largest broadcasting group for radio in the US is Clear Channel Communications, and much of its holdings are in terrestrial radio. It recently struck…
Music has become the centerpiece for global marketing campaigns involving Coca-Cola and Pepsi, two of the most valuable brands in the world today1. Both companies…
Legislators have tried to adapt copyright law to new inventions since the time of piano rolls. This is because creators beg remuneration in new media.…
The arrival of Spotify to the United States in July of 2011 brought a lot of attention – good and bad – to the newest…
On March 27th, 2012 PRNewswire reported that Sirius XM Radio filed a complaint against SoundExchange, Inc. and American Association of Independent Music (A2IM). The complaint…
Less than ten years ago, Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg developed Facebook. Since then, many books, an Oscar winning movie, and, of course, the Internet have…
Boosting the music business in the Internet age has proven to be a tough proposition. Online copyright infringement still has the edge over legitimate music.…
In 2008, the Department of Commerce urged Congress to expand the statutory royalty scheme for digital music streaming to include terrestrial radio transmissions, arguing that…
Spotify could be in danger of becoming just another flash in the pan music service. Information about it is hard to track and inconsistent, and…