Turntable.fm Goes ‘Legit’ With Licenses From All 4 Major Labels
By Eliot Van Buskirk AUSTIN, Texas — Turntable.fm, a social music service that goes beyond the usual buzzword with a service that turns music fans into avatars so they can DJ music for each other in rooms, is officially “legit.” On Tuesday at the SXSW Interactive festival, Turntable.fm co-founders Billy Chasen and Seth Goldstein announced that [...]
Apple loses bid for injunction against Amazon
by Steven Musil A federal judge has denied Apple’s request to immediately stop Amazon from using the term “Appstore” to describe its digital downloads storefront. In an 18-page opinion filed today with the U.S. District Court for Northern California, Judge Phyllis Hamilton denied Apple’s request for a preliminary injunction preventing Amazon’s use of the term, which [...]
Is Facebook Planning a Phone? Who Knows. Should It? No
By John C Abell It was quite the weekend sensation: TechCrunch thought it had a resonant story — though perhaps not in this way. It’s hard to say exactly why the TechCrunch piece on Facebook developing a branded phone caught so much fire and ire. It might, however, be because Facebook took the somewhat unusual step of [...]