Ethan Smith, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on December 5, 2011 at 1:43 pm PT
Edgar Bronfman Jr. will step down as chairman of Warner Music Group, effective Jan. 31, he said in a memo to employees, but will remain on the board of the world’s No. 3 recorded-music company.
Ethan Smith, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on November 30, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
Spotify AB will begin offering Facebook-style apps that add various features and functions to its popular online-music service, according to people in the music industry, a move that could differentiate the company amid growing competition from Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc.
Ethan Smith, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Social on October 24, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
Google Inc. is building a music-download store that would work closely with its Google+ social network and could launch it within the next two weeks, according to people familiar with the matter.
Peter Kafka in Media on August 19, 2011 at 7:30 am PT
No need to replicate iTunes or Spotify or anything else that’s already on the market. If BBM Music thinks small — and it looks like it is — it could work.
Ethan Smith, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Voices on May 4, 2011 at 9:55 pm PT
Access Industries Inc., the conglomerate controlled by investor Len Blavatnik, was the leading bidder late Wednesday for Warner Music Group Corp., according to people familiar with the matter, putting the Russian-born billionaire close to a deal for the world’s third-largest recorded-music company.
