Via: paidContent Lots happened in 2009, but it wasn’t a vintage year for digital music (in fact, it was the year digital music lost the digital buzz to e-readers). All in all I’d give 2009 a 6 out of 10, with the launch of Spotify accounting for at least couple of those points. Here are [...]

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Via: paidContent Music labels’ YouTube-powered music video site Vevo may have had a glitzy launch in New York on Tuesday – but on Wednesday many who hit the site for the first time found it crashing under traffic weight, and everyone outside the U.S. and Canada who hits Vevo.com is getting the same, spartan message [...]

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Via: paidContent CNET reports Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) wants to “obtain some of Lala’s payment and fulfillment systems” – but that would be pretty underwhelming. With MySpace having taken iLike and imeem off the market, a more interesting idea is that Apple will use Lala to inject some remotely hosted goodness in to iTunes. Apple has [...]

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Via: paidContent Demos may have this month published the second set of The research, which the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) commissioned from Jupiter (now Forrester) back in March, also shows how Europeans who share music spend up to €32.60 less per year on music than those who buy music generally, and nearly [...]

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An interesting article on how the Financial Times archived over 790,000 pages of content going back as far as 1888. Sure beats the days of turning the microfilm at the county library. Via: paidContent The Financial Times has made its complete archive available online to subscribers interested in finding out how the paper has covered [...]

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Looks like Sony has plans on integrating its PlayStation Network into a full digital download store, with music, books and mobile apps. While its not Sony’s answer to iTunes it will possibly prove to be a foothold in attracting new customers and gaining sales from their pre-existing subscriber base of 31 million users. Via: paidContent [...]

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Google overhauls its look in order to compete with newer more web 3.0 looking search engines such as bing (the costco of search engines) and the newly remodeled Yahoo. Apparently progress means pushing bigger search buttons. Via: paidContent With both Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) overhauling the user interfaces of their search engines, [...]

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Via: paidContent CBS should be pleased with its choice to allow Microsoft to sync Xbox LIVE to Last.fm, as the partnership has already netted the streaming music service nearly a million new subscribers. Last.fm went live on Xbox last Tuesday, and both companies are already hyping the deal as a success in terms of the [...]

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