In the move from music ownership to music access, how might popularity  evolve? Anyone expecting to see a radical change in listening habits may be disappointed. The first ever weekly top 100  chart of streamed plays , released by the UK’s Official Charts Company on Monday, is broadly similar to the chart of downloads purchases and, therefore, the overall singles chart

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Streamed music chart has short long tail, more Rihanna than Rita

Apple may not be buying a high-design German home entertainment device maker, but that doesn’t mean investors in the rumoured target company won’t make a killing – and it doesn’t mean they won’t still have a part to play in Apple’s iTV. This is a classic weekend story conundrum… In the early hours of Sunday morning, AppleInsider reported  an anonymous source as saying Apple has offered €87.3 million ($112 million) for Kronach-based Loewe , which makes sleek TV sets and speakers

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Apple TV rumor mill makes millions as iTV ‘confirmed’

Ross Levinsohn, appointed Sunday as interim CEO, doesn’t have to learn Yahoo — he’s spent the last 18 months immersed in it. And he doesn’t have to learn digital media — from helping to create online sports powerhouses at CBS Sportsline and Fox, to building a $1 billion-plus digital portfolio for Rupert Murdoch, to launching and investing companies through his own private equity fund, he’s covered the digital media waterfront and then some

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Who is Ross Levinsohn?: Yahoo’s new salesman-in-chief

Record labels’ new-found enthusiasm for ending their iTunes dependence has created an opportunity for new digital music services. I picture the market like a game of Risk. Every week, the likes of Spotify, Rdio and Deezer are racing in to new countries with a new model — unlimited subscription access to millions of songs. But, as the services embark on this VC-funded globalisation, which are the world’s most competitive, most lucrative and most digital music markets?

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The world’s hottest digital markets: a music map

This is second edition of our weekly What we are listening to series.

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What we are listening to: Sincerely CEO Matt Brezina

I had no idea that Mark Zuckerberg’s hoodie would be such a big deal. I bet you even he didn’t think it would be such a big deal. Now don’t get me wrong: thanks to Mark, coders/hackers all around the world have proudly incorporated hoodies into their uniform.

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Boy in the Hood(ie)

You might have heard, the  Facebook IPO is coming. Some on Wall Street are excited.

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Facebook’s road to IPO: 5 posts you gotta read

Dennis Crowley, chief executive and co-founder of New York based Foursquare believes that the real opportunity is when we are able to marry the physical and online worlds seamlessly . Slowly and surely we are seeing signs of that marriage happen around us.

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What do sheep, Brazil & Facebook have in common?

Per usual, the Dev-Team whiz-kids have been hard at work trying to make your jailbroken iOS life a tad bit easier.

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Redsn0w 0.9.11b1 now allows post-iPad 2 devices to downgrade to an older firmware

After botching the registration process for hundreds of new top level domain names, ICANN has pushed back its “big reveal” date. The 1300 or so new names like “.rugby,” “.green” and “.vegas” that were to be announced on April 30 will now be unveiled sometime next month.

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Bungling ICANN will now reveal “.vegas”, other new names in June.