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TasteKid.com - Meet Emmy, The Cute Recommendation Robot

TasteKid is a recommendation engine for music, movies and books. It combines a friendly Web 2.0 interface with powerful innovative learning algorithms in order to achieve its main goal: helping people more...
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Motorola buys Soundbuzz to bolster music offerings

Soundbuzz is a tiny company that provides mobile downloads based on OMA (Open Mobile Alliance) DRM (digital rights management) technology. In an effort to strengthen its music offerings to customers, more...
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Search, Mix & Play with Songza - GigaOM

Play around with Songza, a music search engine and Internet jukebox, and the first question that pops up into your head will be: How can this be legal? more...
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Startup iLike helps bands get the word out to fans

Seattle based music startup is using its base of 13 million registered users to help bands to get the word out to fans. Co-founder Hadi Partovi says,"Our overall directional statement is that we think more...
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Arbitron Portable People Meter Eavesdrops on Your Musical Life

A new fangled way to get stats on who's listening to what. more...
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Last.fm Acquired By CBS

Last.fm understood the importance of listeners, putting the listener in charge, and was successfully acquired by CBS in May this year. Read the post by Richard on being acquired. more...
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SpiralFrog Music Site Launches Monday

Ad-supported SpiralFrog is finally out of 'beta' version now, offering copy-protected music. more...
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How to be a hi-tech start-up success

Last FM's status as a start-up officially ended in May 2007 when it was bought for £140m by CBS Interactive - the net arm of the music giant. more...
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Will MusicShake Shake up Music?

A pleasant surprise was this Korean entry at TechCrunch40 - MusicShake that allows you to create your own music easily. more...
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Jango's Social Music Service Shines In a Crowded Market

Jango is a social music site. Jango was founded by an international band of mysterious outlaws; they participated in the first bubble, including in European giant portal Spray and "monopoly cable TV stations" more...
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