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Social location app, Highlight, has announced a round of seed funding from Benchmark Capital, SV Angel and CrunchFund.

One of the big trends at the SXSW Interactive conference last year was location-based group messaging apps - helping people chat to people they knew in the same area.

Smashing Pumpkins mainman Billy Corgan has outlined some of the details of an ambitious digital campaign around the band's next album Oceania, ahead of a proper unveiling at SXSW next week

New online marketing platform Backplane - of Lady Gaga investment fame (Bulletin, 23-Jan-12) - has announced plans to hold an SXSW Managers Hack event in March, during the SXSW conference.

Fresh from this year's Midemlab contest, we're onto the next competition for music technology startups: SXSW Accelerator.

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In keeping with the SXSW yearly cycle - SXSWtorrent.com has grabbed all 792 tracks from the official Shoutcast stream of bands playing SXSW showcases and made them available in a single torrent file.

More than 400 companies entered this year's SXSW Music Technology Accelerator competition, and now the finalists have been announced.

Scannable QR codes are increasingly on the radar of music marketers, now that tens of millions of smartphones are able to decode them.

Music analytics firm Next Big Sound has been tracking a stack of bands playing the SXSW Festival, tallying how many fans they've added on social networks during the event to see which are getting the biggest buzz...

US streaming music service MOG has been planning its move into mobile for a while now, but yesterday at SXSW it unveiled its iPhone and Android apps - and equally importantly, the pricing to use them. MOG's current web service...

With the debate around new digital music business models in full swing, what does The Pirate Bay have to contribute? Co-founder Peter Sunde took part (via video-conference) in a panel at the SXSW Festival this weekend, and...