MUMBAI: Rhapsody, the nation's largest premium on-demand music service, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Napster, a unit of consumer electronics retailer Best Buy Co.,. Under the terms of the agreement, Rhapsody will acquire Napster subscribers and certain other assets, and Best Buy will receive a minority stake in Rhapsody. The transaction is expected to close on or around November 30, 2011.
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MUMBAI: A melting pot of all the musical sounds simmering in India, will be familiarized through a music travelougue television series �The Dewarists' on Star World.
The series is a music documentary-travelogue where musicians from distinctly different musical backgrounds come together to explore India's different destinations.
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MUMBAI: Big FM has launched the music of Praveen Kumar's forthcoming film �Jo Dooba So Paar- It's Love in Bihar'.
The launch was attended by the film cast including Vinay Pathak, Rajat Kapoor, Sadia Siddiki, Anand Tiwari, Tochi Raina, Pia Sukanya and Sita Sapda.
The music is composed by Manish J and Tipu and is penned by Shailender Singh Sodhi, aka Shellee, Sibtain Shahidi and Gopal Tiwari. Singers like Tochi Raina, Pia Sukanya, Raghuvir Yadav, Kirti Sagathia, Aditi Sing...
MUMBAI: After the alliance with paparazzi queen Lady Gaga, Zynga has partnered global star Enrique Iglesias for its facebook game CityVille.
Enrique's virtual avatar will be feature in Zynga's CityVille wherein player can interact with the artiste from 4-10 October. The players can also build a virtual Euphoria arena in their city to unlock a preview of Enrique's upcoming music video, I like how it feels....
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MUMBAI: The US Supreme Court has declined the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASAP) on internet music download as it does not constitute as a public performance of the recorded musical work.
ASCAP had appealed to the Supreme Court after losing the case in district court on September 2010. ASCAP argued that the digital downloads were also public performances for which the copyright owners must be compensated.
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MUMBAI: RealNetworks Ltd, the digital entertainment services company, and online social commerce experts, nToklo, today announced the integration of nToklo's personalised recommendation platform and social discovery tools into RealNetworks' white label Music On-Demand service across Europe.
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MUMBAI: UrFilez, a digital music provider in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, has launched a music streaming service in Bahrain to empower mobile phone users to get unlimited music on the go. UrFilez Music App is available for multiple platforms and devices, including iPhone, Blackberry, and Android phones.
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MUMBAI: Astral's Family Channel today announced that Radio Disney will be available in Canada for free and without a subscription exclusively on Family.ca. The 24-hour radio station devoted to kids, tweens and families will stream on the network website as of today.
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