The Biz: A Q&A With Headliner.fm’s Mike More

Mike More was a songwriter and owned a publishing company before he founded Nabbr, a video advertising network, and worked with artists like The Jonas Brothers to introduce new fans through social media and video. But a few years ago, More says he was starting to see a new business opportunity in the news feeds [...]

MySpace Sold To… Justin Timberlake?

On Wednesday it was announced that MySpace, once a bastion for music on the web, would be sold for $35 million to an Irvine, California-based digital advertising network named Specific Media. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., which bought MySpace for $580 million in 2005, will take a jaw-dropping loss on the deal. News Corp. has long [...]

Sick Man Of The Internet: MySpace For Sale

In the latest development of the stumbling Ottoman Empire that is MySpace, Wall Street Journal reports that parent company News Corp. (which also owns WSJ) is putting the social network up on the auction block. News Corp. bought MySpace’s parent company eUniverse in 2005 for $580 million. TechCrunch got hold of the “pitch book” earlier [...]

The Top Music Consumption Websites In 2010

This is a section view of the map. To view the full map, click here. Last week, VirtualMusic.tv, a “blogazine” about digital music culture, posted a music website heat map that shows the traffic, based on numbers from Compete, and trajectory of the top music consumption websites. Only sites that exceed 100,000 monthly visits in [...]

Despite Recent Losses, Spotify U.S. Launch Rumored For December

Spotify, the thing you’ve been hearing so much about, is hoping to launch here by the end of 2010, says Tech Crunch Europe. The music start-up, founded in Sweden but now operated largely out of London, had originally hoped to launch in the U.S. earlier this year but setbacks with the major labels have put [...]

Analysis: MySpace Mashes Up With Facebook

MySpace announced a new partnership with Facebook via a webcast today for members of the tech media. While no revenue will change hands between the two companies, the major news is that MySpace has added a “Mashup with Facebook” option at login, allowing Facebook users to create a profile on MySpace. (The Facebook option is [...]

Stay Tuned For Major Announcement From Facebook And MySpace

The word is out: a major joint announcement between two of the biggest players in social media will take place today. Mike Jones, Myspace’s CEO, and Dan Rose, Facebook’s VP of Partnerships and Platform Marketing, will host the announcement. Most rumors floating around the internet this morning point to MySpace integrating the Facebook login (“Facebook [...]

New Music Seminar Wraps Up in New York

Founder Tony Silverman at the 2009 NMS Conference in New York. [Photo courtesy of www.newmusicseminar.com] The internet has been aflutter with the musings of the music digerati over the last few days, with the recent unveiling of new products at the New Music Seminar in New York, which ended on Wednesday. The New Music Seminar, [...]

The Dead Weather To Rock Sea Of Cowards Live On MySpace

At 5 pm CST/6 pm ET, The Dead Weather, feautiring Jack White of the White Stripes and Alison Mosshart of The Kills, will perform their sophomore album, Sea Of Cowards, live on MySpace. Head to http://www.myspace.com/thedeadweather to get your front row seat. You can preview the actual album, which drops May 11 on Third Man [...]

SoundExchange To Distribute Royalties To Bands On MySpace