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[Posted on April 29, 2008 - 4:03 PM]
The operator of hip-hop social network Urbmob.com confirms that it has raised $1.5 million in funding from venture investors including Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Grosvenor Funds and New Atlantic Ventures (formerly...

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[Posted on April 22, 2008 - 11:17 AM]
Angel-backed music widget provider Sonific LLC will shutter its service on May 1 after it failed to reach workable licensing agreements with major industry labels. Founding CEO Gerd Leonhard posted a...

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[Posted on April 17, 2008 - 5:00 PM]
  Stable Media LLC of Los Angeles today became the latest company to launch a virtual world: Riplounge.com. The music-focused site offers a virtual clubgoing experience featuring various genres of...

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[Posted on April 16, 2008 - 2:48 PM]
Will Smith's production company has invested in PluggedIn Media Corp., a new streaming video site for music clips that launched late Tuesday. PluggedIn, which might be described as the Hulu...

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[Posted on April 8, 2008 - 10:40 PM]
It seems Obvious that microblogging service Twitter Inc. is planning to sell targeted advertising eventually, but an unannounced rollout of new features tonight gives a hint to its future plans....

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[Posted on April 8, 2008 - 12:49 PM]
Unnamed angels have injected $550,000 in fresh capital in one-year-old startup mTraks Inc. of San Diego, a seller of downloadable music from independent artists. The indie-focused mTraks is pursuing a...

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[Posted on April 4, 2008 - 2:33 PM]
Commenting on Seesmic's acquisition of Twhirl, Om Malik says he doesn't quite "get" Seesmic and poses two quite reasonable questions about the video blogging service: What is its utility, and...

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[Posted on April 2, 2008 - 7:12 PM]
TechCrunch reports that the vice president of Yahoo! Inc.'s [YHOO] music division, Ian Rogers, has left the company to become CEO of venture-backed startup Topspin Media, which remains in stealth...

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[Posted on April 2, 2008 - 5:49 PM]
Yahoo! Inc.'s [YHOO] courtship by Microsoft Corp. [MSFT] hasn't stopped it from doing business. The company was the lead investor in a $20 million Series B round of financing in...

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[Posted on April 1, 2008 - 4:51 PM]
"If you look at the music business, the real hit rate is even worse than it is for VCs--it's one in 20, one in 30," says OurStage Inc. founder and...

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[Posted on April 1, 2008 - 3:54 PM]
  Jay Bhatti is not afraid to say the "G" word. In fact, Bhatti, co-founder of people search engine Spock Networks Inc., goes out of his way to compare his...

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