February 13th, 2012 by Music Ally
Songkick's Ian Hogarth has published a blog post explaining why he thinks synchronous music services - those based on people being online at the same time - have a big role to play for the industry, despite...
August 25th, 2011 by Music Ally
One of the best Spotify-focused blogs out there is The Pansentient League, and its writer Jer White has just parlayed his expertise into an e-book about the streaming music service. The Pansentient League's...
July 5th, 2011 by Music Ally
Startups are a young person's game, right? Maybe not. New research from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor claims that over-35s were responsible for founding 80% of startups in 2009, although sadly it...
June 22nd, 2011 by Music Ally
Have you seen the Talking Tom Cat apps for iPhone? Two have been released so far, and they've racked up more than 65 million downloads, while the developer behind them, Outfit7, has totalled 135 million...
June 21st, 2011 by Music Ally
A new report from mobile analytics firm Flurry claims that the average US mobile user spends 81 minutes a day using apps - up from 43 minutes this time last year. Just as significantly, that's more than...
June 9th, 2011 by Music Ally
With an increasing number of video-on-demand services compatible with the iPad, it's easy to get bewildered or end up defaulting to a comfortably familiar choice. Fanhattan is an app designed to help armchair...
May 27th, 2011 by Music Ally
As 900lb gorillas go, Facebook is about as 900lb-gorilla-y as it gets in the internet world. That isn't stopping former Veoh and Myspace Music exec Dmitry Shapiro from taking on the social network with...
April 21st, 2011 by Music Ally
Cory Doctorow is a controversial figure for some in the music industry, given his espousal of freemium business models and his criticism of rightsholders in the past. However, his latest column for The...
April 20th, 2011 by Music Ally
As Google's cloud negotiations with labels reportedly head for deadlock, CNET's Greg Sandoval has a fresh idea: perhaps Google should buy Pandora. "The online radio service has the kind of brand recognition...
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