11 Music Apps and Services from Midem Hack Day
If the Midemlab startup competition is the roaring fire of tech innovation at Midem, the Hack Day is its coalface. Organised by the same team behind the regular Music Hack…
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Facebook: 5 Billion Songs Shared Since September
Whether you like the idea of “frictionless sharing” or not, Facebook has made a strong case for the service on stage at the Midem conference. Dan Rose, the VP of…
Four Music Startups Win Midemlab
Midemlab is music industry conference Midem‘s startup competition, a part of the event that has grown significantly since its introduction in 2008, when a then little-known service called SoundCloud emerged…
Why Rovio Embraces Angry Birds Piracy
Where does Rovio go after Angry Birds? A music-based game, it seems. Speaking at Midem‘s Visionary Monday in Cannes today, Rovio CEO, Mikael Hed revealed that the company is currently…
Midem's Visionary Monday: Livestream
Today is Visionary Monday at Midem; a full day of talks featuring everyone from Facebook’s Vice President of Partnerships and Platform Marketing, Dan Rose on the future of content discovery, to…
The Evolution of Shazam
UK company Shazam has come a long way from its early days as a telephone-based service for identifying that great song that keeps popping up on the radio. It has…
Getty Images Now Offers Music by High-Profile Artists
Getty Images, best known as a picture agency, has announced that it is to offer music by high-profile and emerging artists for the first time, for use in the advertising,…
Why Record Label DigSin is Giving Away its Music
Normally, the launch of a new record label wouldn’t be the kind of thing we’d cover at The Next Web, but DigSin is doing things a bit differently – each…
How Sony Plans to Take on Spotify and Netflix
You could be forgiven for not being aware that Sony has its own streaming music and video services. Compared to the likes of Spotify and Netflix, they haven’t exactly had…
Why Choose Rhapsody Over the Competition?
As we recently reported , music streaming service Rhapsody has acquired Napster International, allowing it to expand into the UK and Germany – its first European presence. At Midem in…
Webdoc is Now a Lot More Useful for Musicians
Webdoc, the service that allows users to create easily shareable multimedia content for when a tweet just isn’t enough, has enhanced its usefulness to those who want to promote their…
The Next Web Tracks Innovation at Midem
For the next few days, I’m in Cannes, France at the most tech-focused edition yet of long-running music industry conference Midem. The music industry is changing – its old model…
