February 23rd, 2012 by Music Ally

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We reported on the controversy around social apps' privacy policies in last week's Music Ally Report. Now there has been a resolution, of sorts, in California.

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February 17th, 2012 by Music Ally

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A report in German publication Handelszeitung suggests that the Google vs rightsholders situation may have reached boiling point last summer.

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February 17th, 2012 by Music Ally

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Another reason for artists to get their hands dirty with Google+? It's now more integrated with YouTube. "Want to share your Google+ profile or Google+ Page on your YouTube channel?

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February 16th, 2012 by Music Ally

A report from NPD Group claims that 340m 'low-cost' Android smartphones will be sold in 2015, with handsets that cost $150 or less going down a storm in Africa, India and China.

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February 8th, 2012 by Music Ally

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Despite antagonism from Apple and competition from Microsoft, Twitter and Facebook, Google has not been sleeping of late. The search engine giant has released a "sandbox" test version of a new iteration...

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February 7th, 2012 by Music Ally

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More stats are filtering out about Madonna's half-time show at the Super Bowl on Sunday. Google says Madonna was its top trending search during the game.

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February 3rd, 2012 by Music Ally

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EMI's Capitol Records subsidiary is suing website ReDigi for its business of selling secondhand digital music files (Bulletin, 9-Jan-12), but now Google wants to get involved in the case.

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February 3rd, 2012 by Music Ally

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Our lead looks at the key learnings from this year's Midem and how the event reflected the wider themes in the music business which we have broken down as follows:

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January 30th, 2012 by stuartdredge

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This should be fun. A panel called ‘How to work with the fab four’ was the centrepiece of Midem’s Visionary Monday afternoon session, moderated by Ted Cohen. The panel comprised Charles...

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