May 7th, 2013 by Music Ally

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Mobile apps don't make money for artists? Admittedly, most don't, but Trey Songz seems to be doing pretty well from his Trey Songz – The Angel Network app on iOS and Android.

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May 7th, 2013 by Music Ally

Top Dog

It's rare that Snoop Dogg (now Lion) gets beaten to the punch to try a new technology trend. For once, he has – although only just.

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May 3rd, 2013 by Music Ally

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The Echo Nest has become the go-to provider for music recommendation technology, with Scandinavian streaming service WiMP the latest to strike a deal with the US firm.

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May 3rd, 2013 by Music Ally

Israeli startup JoyTunes has raised $1.5m of seed funding from Genesis Partners and an array of angel investors (including former Steinway CEO Dana Messina) for its music-education apps business.

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May 2nd, 2013 by Music Ally

Line app

We're fascinated by the rise of Asian messaging apps Line, KakaoTalk and WeChat, and what potential they might hold for music.

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April 30th, 2013 by Music Ally

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Mashable is blunt with its assessment of the Twitter #music app's slide down the App Store charts: "It's starting to look like Twitter's music app may be more like Poke than Vine

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April 29th, 2013 by Music Ally

Lick Library

British site LickLibrary has built its business around online guitar lessons, with video tutorials on how to play thousands of tracks. Now there's an iPad app for that.

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April 29th, 2013 by Music Ally

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Give it a few years, and we'll be looking back at artist-branded iPhone-only Instagram-style photo apps as a real moment in time – but possibly not one that provided much lasting value.

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April 22nd, 2013 by Music Ally

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How popular is the new Twitter #music app? Well, at the time of writing (Monday morning) it's the ninth most popular free iPhone app in the US App Store chart – ahead of even Google Maps, YouTube and...

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