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100+ WWDC Session Videos Now Online
Jun 25th
Registered Apple developers who were unable to attend this year’s WWDC can now watch what they missed over on Apple’s Developer Center website. Apple has posted 109 WWDC session videos online, which include both videos of the presentations and the accompanying slideshows.
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The session breakdown is as follows:
- App Frameworks: 32 sessions
- Core OS: 13 sessions
- Developer Tools: 20 sessions
- Graphics, Media and Games: 24 sessions
- Internet and Web: 19 sessions
Of course, in order to access any of this content, you’ll need to be a member of Apple’s Developer Program. If that’s the already the case for you, then go ahead and click here for the Developement Videos page.
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Spotify Raises $100 Million; U.S. Launch Imminent?
Jun 17th
European music streaming service Spotify has closed a $100 million round of funding in anticipation of a launch in North America. The round comes from DST, Kleiner Perkins and Accel.
American consumers who pay attention to the tech and music industries may have a bit of Spotify whiplash. It is coming. It didn’t come. Why didn’t it come? It is going to be integrated into Facebook. The saga goes. With this funding round, reported by AllThingsD, is Spotify finally on the boat across the pond? As consumers, do you even care anymore?
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The funding values Spotify at $1 billion. Free U.S. music streaming service Pandora, which has been going through the IPO tumult this week, is valued at $2.07 billion as of 12:10 p.m. EST, June 17 (these things can change rapidly, that might not be the valuation in an hour). It has raised €83.2 million ($119 million or so by current conversion rates) before this most recent round of funding.
Spotify has signed music streaming agreements with three of the four major U.S. record labels and is reported to be in talks with the fourth, Warner Music Group. AllThingsD points out that Warner Music Group sold for $3.3 billion to Russian billionaire Len Blavatnik in early May.
Spotify’s Facebook integration is not expected to hop the pond when the music streaming service does. It is expected that the business model will not change in the U.S., with free users allowed a certain amount of hourly usage per month and paid users allowed unlimited streaming.
Spotify is going to have to try and differentiate itself to get U.S. users to pony up $10 a month for the service. It is not like they are lacking for options. MOG, Rdio, iTunes (iCloud coming), Google Music Beta and Amazon all have strong offerings on the market.
Does Spotify still excite you? Will you become a subscriber when it finally hits the shores of the New World?
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Google Offers $100 Bribe To Bring Lapsed AdWords Advertisers Back To The Fold
May 5th
Haven’t used AdWords in a while? Here’s $100. Spend it all in one place — your AdWords account. That’s the gist of a new Google effort to reactivate AdWords users who’ve let their accounts grow dormant. The company reached out to these users yesterday with a plea,…
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Apr 14th
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Report: YouTube to Spend $100 Million on Original Programs for New Channels
Apr 7th
YouTube is reportedly ready to spend $100 million to develop original ad-supported programming to populate about 20 new niche “channels,” according to a Wall Street Journal report.
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Radiohead Launches New Album – 100% Web, Baby!
Feb 18th
Tonight the band Radiohead once again set a new standard for album releases in the digital era, by unexpectedly making available its latest album The King of Limbs a day early. Not only that, everything about this release was done via the Web and independent of a record label.
Along with the early release of the digital version tonight, Radiohead released the music video of its first single off the album, ‘Lotus Flower’ – on, you guessed it, YouTube. While the new album doesn’t have the pay-what-you-like innovation of its 2007 release, In Rainbows, it is notable that Radiohead went 100% online this time. The announcement on Twitter and a special eCommerce website, the digital download, the video on YouTube. Plus, the social media reaction is astounding.
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It’s all happened so fast, too. Earlier this week, Radiohead announced on Twitter that it would be releasing its 8th album via digital download on Saturday 19th February. A physical, self-described ‘Newspaper Album’ is to be released in May, featuring vinyl records, a CD and lots of art work.
The announcement, itself unexpected, built anticipation – which was whipped into an online frenzy tonight when the digital version was launched a day early.
If this was a startup product launch, you’d have to call it masterful. Which is exactly what Radiohead’s new album release is. It’s like they’ve just released a highly anticipated new app. How times have changed in the music industry. No longer are music fans camping outside record stores waiting for the double CD launch of the new Guns n’ Roses album at exactly midnight. Nowadays the artist can do everything independent of record labels and stores, announce it on Twitter and launch the first video on YouTube.
As I write this, music publications like All Songs Considered are breathlessly live-blogging the new album (“# 4 songs in #kingoflimbs feels like a skipping heart, thrilling and unsettling.” @allsongs).
As for me, I’m kind of regretting ordering the larger WAV version – it’s taking so damn long to download! 
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From Darling to Death and Back Again: Pandora Files for $100 Million IPO
Feb 11th
Online music recommendation service Pandora has had quite the ride over the last several years. In 2006, ReadWriteWeb named it a runner-up in the yearly Best Little Company round-up and we had high hopes for the company. Four months later, we were writing about how Pandora founder Tim Westergren was appealing for help to “save Internet radio” from licensing fees. A year after that, the headline read “Pandora On the Verge of Closing Shop“.
Oh, how things can change. Nowadays, Pandora is everywhere, from computers to mobile phones to integrated car stereo systems. Today, the company has taken it one step further and filed for a $100 million IPO.
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According to All Things Digital’s Tricia Duryee, Pandora filed with the Securities Exchange Commission today to raise $100 million with Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Stifel Nicolause Weisel and William Blair & Company as underwriters. In it’s filing, it gave a peek at its future plans.
Pandora explained in the document that its service today is primarily a personalized radio station streamed over the Web and mobile phones, but in the future it has aspirations to do much more.
It wants to improve the service, develop new advertising products, build out its ad sales force, expand distribution to other consumer electronics and automobiles, and expand internationally. It also wants to add other types of content beyond music, such as radio formats, like talk radio or sports.
With the ubiquitous nature of Pandora these days, it’s easy to forget how close to the brink the company once came. It wasn’t until late 2009 – more than two years after we wrote about its near death experience – that it finally reached a deal with music labels.
Business Insider’s Nicholas Carlson went through today’s following and came up with a bunch of interesting stats that show off the company’s recent successes. Here is an excerpt:
- Revenue for the 9 months ended October 31, 2010 was $90.12 million. That’s an increase over 30.1 million over the same months in 2009.
- Net income in the first 9 months of 2010 was…a loss of $328,000. Pandora lost $18 million during the same months in 2009.
- Pandora has more than 80 million users in the US.
- During the first nine months of 2010, Pandora ad revenue reached $78 million. That’s up from $29 million during the same period in 2009. That’s huge growth.
- Subscription revenue was $12.3 million during the first 9 months of 2010. It was $4 million during the first 9 months of 2009. That’s huge growth.
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