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Twitter’s Music App Will Let You Watch, Too, With Help From Vevo

Peter Kafka in Media on March 13 at 7:02 pm PT

More details about Twitter’s newest app, and why it’s taking a page from Facebook.

News Byte

Spotify Adds One Million Subscribers in Three Months

Peter Kafka in Media on March 12 at 6:58 am PT

Spotify has signed up six million paying subscribers for its streaming music service, CNET reports. In December, Spotify reported five million subscribers, with one million of those in the U.S.

Still No Home for Firefox on iOS

Beth Callaghan in Mobile on March 10 at 5:01 pm PT

Mozilla won’t resume development on Firefox Home.

Former CBS Exec Lurie Joins Former Yahoo Levinsohn at Guggenheim Digital Media

Kara Swisher in Media on February 22 at 10:35 am PT

What does two deal makers and a pile of investment dough equal?

Dish’s Charlie Ergen Says He Doesn’t Want to Kill Ads, for Real

Liz Gannes in Dive Into Media on February 11 at 7:04 pm PT

“I don’t want to kill ads. I also don’t want to put my head in the sand,” said Ergen.

That CBS/CNET/Dish Story Won’t Go Away

Peter Kafka in Media on January 31 at 12:22 pm PT

The trade group that runs CES re-awards Dish an award that CNET wanted to give it four weeks ago. And for good measure, says it’s cutting ties with CNET, too.

Dish Toots Its Own Horn, Since CBS Won’t

Peter Kafka in Media on January 20 at 1:46 pm PT

And the New York Times is happy to help.

Voices

CBS Quashes CNET Award for Dish’s Ad-Skipping DVR

Keach Hagey, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on January 14 at 2:38 pm PT

CNET disclosed Monday that it had originally picked Dish Network Corp.’s controversial ad-skipping device to receive its top award at the Consumer Electronics Show last week, before CNET’s parent company, CBS Corp, forced it to reverse course.