British music streaming service Roxi has signed up another starry playlist curator, and announced its first user figures.
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Yahoo cancels Simon Cowell’s Ultimate DJ talent show
The (steel) wheels may be falling off Syco Entertainment’s plans to launch an X Factor for DJs TV talent show. Ultimate DJ was set to be funded and broadcast online by Yahoo, and was shown off at the company’s NewFront showcase in April.
Six months on, it has been cancelled – although the causes appear to lie less with Simon Cowell’s production company, and more with Yahoo getting the collywobbles about original content.
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Simon Cowell: ‘iTunes is setting the way for younger record buyers’
When Syco Entertainment boss Simon Cowell keynoted at the MIPCOM conference this week, there was a quick reference to smartphones’ potential for music. He’s since expanded on that in an […]
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Simon Cowell: ‘I pray at night for iTunes and YouTube’
Most coverage of TV/music mogul Simon Cowell’s US press event this week has focused on who the judges might be for next year’s X Factor US
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MediaGuardian 100 list includes music industry figures
The media industry argues over who’s up, down and out of The Guardian’s annual MediaGuardian 100 list of movers and shakers.
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Will.I.Am hints at ‘X Factor for Tech’ TV show
Simon Cowell and Will.I.Am are reportedly “working on a project called X Factor for Tech”.
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Music figures in MediaGuardian 100 (but not highly)
The Guardian has published its MediaGuardian 100 list of important figures in the British media industry, and while music firms figure in the list, they’re relatively low down.
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X Factor mogul Simon Cowell joins Twitter
With all the social media buzz around X Factor in the UK and US, it’s surprising that it’s taken this long for Simon Cowell to join Twitter.
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X Factor US viewers can now vote for contestants through Twitter
We’ve seen social voting for TV talent shows before, when American Idol allowed viewers to vote on Facebook for their favourite contestants.
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The X Factor UK going iPhone-only for its 2011 app strategy
TalkBack Thames Digital has announced its plans for the digital campaign around this year’s UK series of The X Factor. It includes an iPhone app with a ‘Tap to Clap’ feature, which will get viewers to signify their applause for performances, judges and results and share it on Twitter and Facebook.
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Simon Cowell’s electric dreams come true
Despite boasting about not using computers, Simon Cowell last year bemoaned the fact that videogame manufacturers hadn’t been beating down his door to make X Factor console games. “X Factor should have been the initial vehicle to have Activision come to us and say…can you help launch Guitar Hero?”…
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Simon Cowell calls in the FBI over hack attacks
We don’t normally link to stories from The Sun, but we’ll make an exception for ‘news’ that Simon Cowell has, in the tabloid’s words, “turned to the FBI to stop hackers nicking his label’s tracks”.