10 posts and columns on EMI Group

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EU Clears Sony’s $2.2 Billion Acquisition of EMI

in Media on April 19 at 9:47 am PT

European competition regulators gave the green light Thursday to a plan by an investor group led by Sony Corp. to buy EMI Group Ltd.’s huge music-publishing division for $2.2 billion.

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EU Expected to Approve Sony’s EMI Music Deal

in Media on April 18 at 4:00 pm PT

European antitrust regulators are expected Thursday to approve a plan by a Sony Corp.-led investor group to buy EMI Group Ltd.’s huge music-publishing division for $2.2 billion, according to people familiar with the situation.

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Google Plans Online Music Store to Challenge Apple, Amazon

in Media on October 14, 2011 at 9:31 am PT

Google Inc. is creating an online music store to compete with Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., though the company may open the service without the rights to sell songs from many of the biggest record labels, according to people familiar with the matter.

1982 Called. It Wants Its Digital Music Distribution Model Back

in News on September 22, 2008 at 8:29 am PT

Overall CD sales are plummeting after eight years of unflagging erosion. Digital music sales now account for 15 percent of recording industry’s revenues worldwide and 30 percent in the United States, according to recent data from The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. And those numbers are climbing faster than ever. Consider: This past June, Apple said it has sold some five billion songs on its iTunes Store. Clearly, physical media are giving way to the Internet as a means of music distribution. What better time, then, to reinvent the music industry’s business model for physical media, as SanDisk hopes to do with its new microSD memory card album format?

Fresh Prince Gettin' Jiggy Wit HD Video

in Social on April 16, 2008 at 10:27 am PT

If YouTube aims to someday host every music video ever made, as co-founder Steve Chen once claimed, it better get crackin’. Because the market’s getting crowded. This morning PluggedIn Media launched a new service for streaming HD-quality music videos. Backed by Overbrook Entertainment–Will “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It” Smith’s production and management company–PluggedIn will offer some [...]

Fresh Prince Gettin’ Jiggy Wit HD Video

in Social on April 16, 2008 at 10:27 am PT

If YouTube aims to someday host every music video ever made, as co-founder Steve Chen once claimed, it better get crackin’. Because the market’s getting crowded. This morning PluggedIn Media launched a new service for streaming HD-quality music videos. Backed by Overbrook Entertainment–Will “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It” Smith’s production and management company–PluggedIn will offer some [...]

Jobs: You Know That 'Thoughts on Music' Letter Still Makes Me Tear Up …

in News on October 16, 2007 at 3:14 pm PT

Well that didn’t take long at all. Less than a month after Amazon.com began peddling DRM-free music for considerably less than you’d find it on Apple’s iTunes store, Cupertino silently dropped its price to match. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said the company is reducing the price of [...]

Jobs: You Know That ‘Thoughts on Music’ Letter Still Makes Me Tear Up …

in News on October 16, 2007 at 3:14 pm PT

Well that didn’t take long at all. Less than a month after Amazon.com began peddling DRM-free music for considerably less than you’d find it on Apple’s iTunes store, Cupertino silently dropped its price to match. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said the company is reducing the price of [...]

Radiohead to Record Labels: 'This Is What You Get, When You Mess With Us'

in News on October 1, 2007 at 12:59 am PT

Well, this is sure to set a cat among the pigeons who still believe they have a God-given right to control the retail distribution and pricing of music. Recently freed of its contractual obligation to major label EMI Group, top-selling British rock band Radiohead is releasing its seventh studio album, “In Rainbows,” on Oct. 10 [...]

Radiohead to Record Labels: ‘This Is What You Get, When You Mess With Us’

in News on October 1, 2007 at 12:59 am PT

Well, this is sure to set a cat among the pigeons who still believe they have a God-given right to control the retail distribution and pricing of music. Recently freed of its contractual obligation to major label EMI Group, top-selling British rock band Radiohead is releasing its seventh studio album, “In Rainbows,” on Oct. 10 [...]