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After yesterday's fireworks in the row between YouTube and UK licensing body PRS for Music, it seems the bargaining has begun again – thankfully for the thousands of artists who risk seeing their videos removed...

So, thousands of music videos are to be blocked for UK users of YouTube, following the latter's decision to remove them due to fraught licensing negotiations with PRS for Music. We'll stop short of assigning outright...

Likaholix is a startup set up by some ex-Google staff, and is the latest service to let people make and share their personal recommendations - books, films, TV shows and yes, music.

There are a million and one Twitter spin-offs, many of them silly and/or useless. However, the ReTweetability Index isn't one of `em.

Google is opening up its Android Market application store for paid apps this week, and one of the first to take advantage is Guitar Hero. The game is being released for Android handsets with 15 songs to play along to, plus...

Much buzz today surrounds the launch of video downloads on its YouTube service, which includes the ability for its content partners (including labels) to charge for those downloads.Users will pay using Google's own Google...

Google has announced that it's expanding its click-to-buy YouTube programme to Germany, Spain and the Netherlands, as of today. That means music videos on those countries' local YouTube sites will have links for...

Google's VP of content partnerships David Eun may be softly-spoken, but his message for the music industry was loud and clear in yesterday's MidemNet interview: “Allow innovation to thrive, encourage it…...

What, you may be wondering, does Google have to say for itself at MidemNet this year? David Eun is VP of content partnerships at the company, and he's being interviewed on-stage by TAG Strategic's Ted Cohen.First...

Google has announced the launch of its own web browser, called Chrome. It's due to be made available for PC users to download today. “What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for...

Financial marketwatchers have been pointing out that Apple's market capitalisation has just reached $158.84 billion – significant, because it's overtaken Google's $157.23 billion. It's more because...

More news from China – a market coveted and feared by music firms in equal measure for its size and piracy – with Google apparently about to launch an MP3 search engine to compete with local search site Baidu....