Posts under "Business"

Sony has declared its operating profit shall match Last Year

Posted in Business on May 23rd, 2011

While still recovering from the March earthquake and the tsunami and the hacking case which led to the fall of its shares Sony Corporation is trying to bounce back to the normal with its increase in s…

Flyers Printing Services Can Help You Promote Your Demo

Posted in Business, Information about on December 8th, 2010

Millions of musicians try to promote their songs every day. They use free download services and social media networking to try to get their demo off the ground. However, one awesome way to really ma…

Long live Youtube.

Posted in Business on September 30th, 2009

In some newly publishd stats, we are seeing once more just how big Youtube has become; the site becoming a literal giant of the net. Ten billion video views in the month of August, almost 2 for every …

EMI collides with GrooveShark

Posted in Business on June 18th, 2009

Grooveshark has always been a bit of an oddball in the online world, inititally starting as a complex peer to peer paid download system, before moving onto a social on demand system with the ability t…

ZuneHD. Ohmy.

Posted in Business on May 30th, 2009

I'll admit, I'm a bit of a Zune fanboy; it's a quality device with better software, and in my opinon, hardware than the competition from Apple, and seeing the above device being announce…

The Pirate Bay Sinks in Court

Posted in Business on April 26th, 2009

The Pirate Bay have always defined the image of defiant internet rights; they threw caution to the wind, ignored legal requests, and have now met their match in Swedish courts, with the entire adminis…

Should radio pay royalities?

Posted in Business on February 4th, 2009

Okay, admittedly slightly off the topic of digital music, but still pretty relevant. I found out a fairly suprising fact today, that unlike in the UK, US radio stations do not have to pay royalities f…

Leaks do not always hit sales hard; a case study.

Posted in Business on September 16th, 2008

Metalica, the once notorious digital music haters, recently released their latest album, Death Magnetic, with a new attitude to the subject. They decided they needed to embrace the digital world thr…

PlayLouder? ThinkHarder.

Posted in Business on August 13th, 2008

PlayLouder have a good idea; offseting illegaly downloaded music by taking a chunk of an ISPs fee and distributing it to labels in royalities. Unfortunatly there is a big problem with this; there is a…

Napster slips slightly

Posted in Business on August 12th, 2008

Napster, since it's reinvention, has done well, despite the knowledge that it will always play second fiddle to the massive iTunes. As such it's unfortunate to see revenues slip from 32milli…