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Chip company Intel (that’s ‘hip’ with a C kids!) is sponsoring a UK search for new music talent with the launch of a media venture called Intel Studio on April 30. The tech-industry giant has enlisted the help of Carl Barat and other music industry experts to seek out “unsigned talent from all different music genres”, (more…)

Executive reshuffles at Nokia suggest the company may have bitten off more than it can chew with its ‘Comes With Music’ plan. Nokia had earlier denied reports it has agreed to pay Universal Music $35 per handset sold. Now The Register reports the company has agreed to pay the wholesale per-unit price for (more…)

Tudou, China’s largest video-sharing website has secured $57 million investment from a group of investors including IDG Technology Venture Investment, Granite Global Ventures and General Catalyst Partners. Tudou plans to use the cash to build up its online infrastructure for this summer’s controversial (more…)

Apple has contracted current manufacturing partner, Foxconn, to begin production of the next-generation 3G iPhone in May, with a view to ship three million of them in June. Digitimes reports Apple has ordered 25 million of the new devices across the life of the product, (usually one year) suggesting aggressive sales (more…)

Changes are afoot at Starbucks in relation to its Hear Music label. The coffee chain is stepping back from the day-to-day operations of the label, handing them over to partner Concord Music Group (it’s a 50-50 joint venture). It’s not the end of Starbucks’ involvement in music, but the company appears to be focusing (more…)

MySpace has announced the public launch of its Application Gallery, to take on Facebook’s apps platform. MySpace is launching it with more than 1,000 widgets for users to install on their profiles, including music, video, politics and causes. MySpace says that during the service’s beta period, users installed more than (more…)

Here’s another startup to make the music industry shudder. Chilirec is based in Sweden, and allows users to listen to hundreds of internet radio stations, and then makes them available for playing back in the browser at any time, or downloading as MP3 files. All this, within a neat and slick interface that makes it (more…)

There’s been plenty of speculation around just how well (or badly) MVNO Blyk is doing in the UK. The company launched last year with ambitious plans to entice young consumers with free voice-minutes and texts if they agreed to receive adverts on their phones. Now, however, the company has released some hard (more…)

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Apple has announced a profit of $1.05 billion for the first quarter of 2008, up from $770 million in the same period last year. This came from revenues of $7.51 billion, up 43% year-on-year. During the quarter, Apple sold more than 1.7 million iPhones and 10.6 million iPods, with the latter representing a 1% increase (more…)