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New Music Strategies:
An IFPI & BPI Board Member Writes... In the context of a blog about the online music world, I thought you might be interested in an email exchange I've had this evening with a board member of both the IFPI and the BPI. — I've had an email conversation with Paul Birch of Revolver Records this evening.
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Record exec to academic: stop criticizing us or I'll tell your university — Andrew Dubber, who is on faculty at the University of Central England, blogged a link to a story critical of RIAA lawsuits. Paul Birch, a British record exec who sits on the boards of the BPI and IFPI …
Max Kalehoff / Online Spin:
Deconstructing Facebook — Have you noticed a massive surge on Facebook lately, since it opened itself up to everyone outside of .edu? I have — and I bet that other social networks are now scrambling to respond, especially in light of Facebook's opening of its API.
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Insider Chatter, VC Ratings, Paul Kedrosky's …, AttentionMax, Visible Path, Preoccupations and Portfolio.com
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Wall Street Journal:
Is iPhone AT&T's Magic Bullet? — Companies Featured in This Article: AT&T , Apple, Sprint Nextel, Deutsche Telekom, Verizon Communications, Vodafone Group, Telefon AB LM Ericsson, Sony — AT&T Inc. stands a good chance of stealing customers away from other wireless operators …
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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Poll: 9 percent of cell phone users want iPhone — Nearly 1 in 10 cell phone users in the U.S. has "a strong interest" in buying an Apple iPhone, according to a study released Friday by M:Metrics. — Poll results show about 9 percent of the 11,064 mobile phone users surveyed were inclined …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
CellCarriers fear mobile VoIP planet — Why is T-Mobile UK blocking calls to mobile VoIP start-up Truphone? — Mobile carriers are scared of one thing: becoming dumb pipes whose only utility is to carry voice and text. And it is one of the reasons why they are fighting tooth and nail …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Safari for Windows... but WHY? — Steve Jobs & Company must have known that releasing a Safari browser for the Windows platform was going to result in some serious blowback: vulnerabilities, outrage and of course, the mocking. And as expected, the digerati responded with scorn and outrage.
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Chris Remo / shacknews.com:
Valve Confirms Episode Two, Team Fortress 2 Launch Date — Last night, Valve representatives confirmed to Shacknews that the studio's upcoming trio of Source-powered games will ship for all announced platforms on October 9, 2007. The suite, sold at retail and through Valve's Steam download service …
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Ars Technica, The Tech Report, Joystiq, Kotaku, Xbox 360 Fanboy, DigitalBattle and Forever Geek
Claude Brodesser-Akner / AdAge:
Michael Moore's 'Sicko' Leaked Onto Web — Every Movie Marketer's Worst Nightmare Becomes Grim Reality for Weinstein Company — LOS ANGELES (AdAge.com) — Michael Moore's new documentary "Sicko" has been pirated and is now widely available for download on peer-to-peer content sites like www.thepiratebay.org.
The Boy Genius Report:
Apple iPhone launch deets — Have you been sitting at home alone, trying to figure out what the heck is going to happen June 29th? Should you camp out in the store and then hijack the FedEx delivery guy? Probably not. But we do have some exciting bits of information surrounding the day the iPhone will be released.
Henry Gottlieb / LAW.com:
MySpace, Facebook Privacy Limits Tested in Emotional Distress Suit — The operators of MySpace and Facebook social networking sites assure their millions of subscribers that only designated "friends" can read registrants' private postings. — But do the postings stay private …
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Techdirt, WebProNews, Mashable!, Insider Chatter, IP Democracy, David Dalka, The Social Web, GigaLaw.com Daily News and Listics
Avvo Blog:
Defending Avvo's Right to Provide Information and Guidance to Consumers — I would like to respond to the class action lawsuit filed against Avvo today. — Avvo.com is designed to give consumers information and guidance to choose the right attorney. There is very little guidance available …
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CNET News.com, Law Blog, VC Ratings, John Cook's Venture Blog, Consumerist, robhyndman.com and 901am
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Family Seeks Assurances on Protecting Dow Integrity — The family that controls Dow Jones & Company has rejected a proposed plan prepared by its lawyers, asking them instead to seek stronger guarantees of editorial independence as a condition of selling the company to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.
Jason D. O'Grady / The Apple Core:
Only AT&T corporate stores to carry iPhone — A friend at a third-party AT&T/Cingular-only authorized franchise store with 15+ locations has confirmed that they will not be permitted to carry iPhone. — Apparently there's a legal issue regarding the relationship between Apple …
Market Wire:
SOURCE: StudioNow — StudioNow, the innovative online video editing company (www.StudioNow.com), announced that it has raised $1.5M in funding. Led by Claritas Capital, the investment also comprised of several successful technology entrepreneurs including Fred Goad and Jim Kever, original founders of Envoy, a precursor to WebMD.
Business Week:
A Scramble for the Perfect Wave — Why the upcoming auction of prime wireless spectrum is firing up players like Google and Intel — Later this year the most valuable slice of American airwaves is set to be auctioned off by the Federal Communications Commission.
Hy Hollinger / Hollywood Reporter:
MPA study: Brighter picture for movie industry — All-media revenue from pics up 8% to $42.6 bil — The motion picture industry is back on course. — After a disappointing 2005, the six major companies have received official confirmation from the MPA that their all-media revenue …
Dan Sabbagh / Times of London:
Web angel investor on the lookout for another big winner — Stefan Glaenzer is looking for his third hit, although the German angel investor, now based in London, cannot complain so far. He made several million selling his share in Ricardo, the internet auctioneer, to QXL in the first dot-com boom …
Dan Kaplan / VentureBeat:
BlogHer, site for female bloggers, said to get money from Venrock — We're hearing BlogHer, a site that aims to popularize blogs by women, has raised its first round of capital from Silicon Valley firm, Venrock. — We're not sure of the amount. The company has declined comment, as has Venrock.
PR Newswire:
Quadrangle Capital Partners and Kent Brownridge to Acquire Dennis Publishing, Owner of Maxim, Blender and Stuff Magazines and Websites — Brownridge to Serve As CEO — NEW YORK, June 15 /PRNewswire/ — Quadrangle Capital Partners II LP, a private equity fund focused on the media …
