Chasing the post-download digital music opportunity, veteran services are seeking scale to fight dominant newcomers, whilst strangers from outside the space are launching their own new services with mixed success.
The newsonomics of the long goodbye: Kodak’s, Sears’, and newspapers’
No old-world icon is safe. Just in recent weeks, both Kodak and Sears have percolated back into the news, offering headline writers a dilemma borrowed from the classic Saturday Night Live Weekend Update line, "Generalíssimo Francisco Franco is still dead." How long have these companies been dying? And how do U.S. newspapers compare to these...
Daily Must Reads, Jan. 3, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Nathan Gibbs
1. The Internet changes how we remember (Scientific American)
2. Larry Downes: Why Best Buy is going out of business...gradually (Forbes)
3. The verified Twitter account for Rupert Murdoch's wife was fake (ReadWriteWeb)
4. Volkswagen turns off Blackberry email after work hours (BBC News)
5. Laura...
Daily Must Reads, Jan. 3, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Nathan Gibbs
1. The Internet changes how we remember (Scientific American)
2. Larry Downes: Why Best Buy is going out of business...gradually (Forbes)
3. The verified Twitter account for Rupert Murdoch's wife was fake (ReadWriteWeb)
4. Volkswagen turns off Blackberry email after work hours (BBC News)
5. Laura...
Daily Must Reads, Jan. 3, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Nathan Gibbs
1. The Internet changes how we remember (Scientific American)
2. Larry Downes: Why Best Buy is going out of business...gradually (Forbes)
3. The verified Twitter account for Rupert Murdoch's wife was fake (ReadWriteWeb)
4. Volkswagen turns off Blackberry email after work hours (BBC News)
5. Laura...
Hot for "Bad Teacher": Sony Spikes Sales With Early Offers on iTunes, Amazon
You want to rent, but Hollywood wants you to buy. And a Sony experiment sounds promising for the studios.
Hollywood’s UltraViolet offers an alternative to iTunes
UltraViolet is Hollywood's first real effort at breaking the Apple stranglehold. The idea is that by implementing a digital rights locker, the studios involved will enable viewers to purchase a piece of content once and watch it on any device. And it's finally available now.
Media Decoder Blog: Rhapsody to Acquire Napster in Deal With Best Buy
Rhapsody said on Monday that it has signed an agreement to acquire Napster from Best Buy, uniting two cloud music players amid escalating competition in a growing market.
