techcrunch.com - 1/15/2009
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Facebook’s ongoing effort to launch a free streaming music service is stalled, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation. The company was close to a deal that would bring free streaming music from three of the four big labels (Universal, Sony, EMI) through the Total Music ...
obsessable.com - 1/13/2009
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obsessable.com —
While Facebook has seemed like king of the
social networking sites for a while now , boasting...
the greatest number of new sign-ups, it's been engaged in a long game of catch-up with MySpace, one that finally looks like it may win in the coming year . The past year has seen a steady increase in
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Facebook set to overtake MySpace in U.S. popularity this ...
insidefacebook.com - 1/14/2009
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insidefacebook.com —
A week after the Whopper Sacrifice application made
waves for its creative use of Facebook friend removals...
as a way to spread the application, Facebook has forced it to disable the app, according to the developer. Facebook has clarified that it has ...
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Whopper Sacrifice Forced to Disable Behavior by Facebook ...
techcrunch.com - 1/13/2009
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techcrunch.com —
Year end Comscore numbers for the U.S. audience
are out. The first thing we checked? How the...
major social networks are doing. Facebook, which became the largest worldwide social network in mid 2008, is still playing catch up to MySpace in the ...
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Social Networking: Will Facebook Overtake MySpace In The ...
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WMG and Facebook Total Music Tussle
p2pnet news —
... “Facebook’s ongoing effort to launch a free streaming music service is stalled, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation,” says TechCrunch. ...
Facebook Music Needs to Pick a Direction
All Facebook —
... may have taken yet another setback. According to TechCrunch, more details may have arisen regarding the deal (or lack thereof) that Facebook was trying to work out with a number of music companies as options for offering a Facebook Music app direct to its users. ...
Warner Music Continues The Trend: No Innovation Unless It Owns A Piece Of It
Techdirt —
... According to TechCrunch, that activity on Warner Music's part has now killed off an attempt by Facebook to open up its own music service. The company had been working for nearly a year on such a service, but Warner simply wouldn't allow it -- especially since it already had ownership stakes from a bunch of other players, and didn't want the competition. This is exactly the sort of chilling effect on innovation that we're consistently talking about. It's rather ridiculous that one company can hold up new and useful ways of listening to and sharing music. When ...
College Music Service Ruckus.com Shuts Down
MacBytes.com —
... (typically .edu). At around 5 PM EST today the site went down with a notice stating that it was undergoing an update. As of 5:30, it was displaying the shutdown notice seen above. We’re told that music that has not passed its “renew date” still works, but that music that has expired will no longer work because the DRM licensing server has apparently shut down. Last year Ruckus was acquired by Total Music, the joint venture between Sony and UMG, with the intention of using it as a backend for a service which still has yet to launch. Total Music has been struggling for some ...
MSN May Get MySpace Music Service to Rival Google's
Fast Company - Technology —
... it would be selling songs in its Gift Shop. The network reportedly tried to emulate MySpace's music model this summer, but its plans were shot down when Warner Music refused cooperation. ...
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Salesforce.com rolls out Service Cloud —
CNET News - Business Tech 1/15/2009
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Salesforce.com has unveiled its Service Cloud, a customer service application that's designed for cloud computing and plugged into conversations that occur on Google , Facebook, ...
New indie partnerships for MySpace Music —
CNET News.com 1/15/2009
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