bands

In Activity-Tracking Race, Larklife Band Comes Up Short

Lauren Goode in Product Reviews on January 14 at 6:00 am PT

This Lark doesn’t sing.

Music Funding Start-Up May Have Run Out of Funding UPDATED

Peter Kafka in Media on February 23, 2010 at 8:41 am PT

Sellaband, the Dutch start-up that was supposed to let bands raise money directly from their fans, may have run out money itself. Bad news for Chuck D and Flavor Flav.

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Facebook "What People Are Up To," MySpace "What People Are Into," News Corp. Exec Says

Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 5, 2009 at 10:49 am PT

News Corp.’s digital chief said Thursday that the company’s social-networking property MySpace is going in a different direction than rival Facebook, based on how its members socialize and share interests.

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Books and Music That Make You Dumb

Marisa Taylor, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 27, 2009 at 8:39 am PT

Anyone who has ever sought to justify their own musical or literary taste may find some solace in the side project of Virgil Griffith, a 25-year-old Caltech graduate student known for embarrassing numerous corporations with his WikiScanner, a database that tracks the sources of anonymous edits to Wikipedia entries.