Music

First Look At Web18s Horizontal Portal In.com - 10 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 15 May 2008 07:58 AM PST

While some have been saying that the horizontal portal is waning in influence, Web18, the internet company from the Network18 group is set to open its so-called-horizontal portal In.com for…

MySpace India Launched: 500,000 Users In India; Tie-Up With Saregama; Events Planned - 4 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 17 Apr 2008 06:38 AM PST

MySpace India, which as been live since January, has finally been “officially” launched: there’s a gig today in Mumbai featuring Pentagram, The Super Fuzz, Them Clones, followed by an after-party…

Mohit Anand To Join As Head Of Channel [V] - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 02 Apr 2008 07:40 AM PST

Mohit Anand, formerly the Country Manager For Microsofts Entertainment & Devices Division will be joining Channel [V] as General Manager for Channel [V], from the 21st of April, reports Indiantelevision.com.…

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Onyx Takes Hungama, YRF To Court Over IPR Claims
Posted By Cerius Shah - Wed 26 Mar 2008 12:25 PM PST

The Kareena Kapoor - Saif Ali Khan starrer Tashan (English: Style) appears to be running into hot water with Onyx dragging Hungama and Yash Raj Films (YRF) to court over…

Content Owners Join Forces To Combat Low Revenue Shares, Piracy - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 19 Mar 2008 06:14 AM PST

This could be a key event for content providers in India. Three industry bodies - Film and Television Producers Guild of India (FTPGI), the Indian Music Industry (IMI) and ASSOCHAM…

Channel [V] Head Resigns To Start Internet Venture - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 10 Mar 2008 12:55 AM PST

Well, it’s a sign of the times that another top media honcho is turning entrepreneur: Amar K Deb, head of Channel [V] has put in his papers, and is looking…

YouTube And T-Series Given Time To Settle Copyright Infringement Dispute - 8 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 28 Feb 2008 06:54 AM PST

The Delhi High Court has given YouTube and T-Series time to settle their copyright infringement dispute, and the case will be heard next in July. Representing YouTube and Google (NSDQ:…

Mundu Radio On Idea Cellular; Issues With Streaming Music Over GPRS? - 4 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 19 Feb 2008 07:32 PM PST

Geodesic Information Systems has tied up with mobile operator Idea Cellular to launch Idea Radio over GPRS. Idea Radio - of the Mundu Radio solution - gives users access to…

Worldspace To Seek More Strategic Alliances In India - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 11 Feb 2008 10:58 PM PST

Satellite radio broadcaster Worldspace (NSDQ: WRSP) bet heavily on the music-crazy India - they notched up 164,000 paid subscribers - but continued to make losses. The proliferation of free FM…

MY FM Launches Website - 5 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 27 Jan 2008 07:53 PM PST

MY FM, the FM station from the Bhaskar group has launched a portal - www.myfmindia.com. Don’t go by the press release (here, doc file): They’ve launched podcasts, but the execution…

@PaidContent: Last.fm’s Free On-Demand Music Platform - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 24 Jan 2008 02:14 AM PST

Joseph Weisenthal from our sister site PaidContent.org was at the launch of Last.fm’s free on-demand music streaming platform, and you may read about the launch and the service here. Labels…

MTNL launches CRBT service; WOW! - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 23 Jan 2008 10:31 PM PST

[by Cerius Shah] MTNL has launched its CRBT (NYSE: BT) service sooner than expected. The service powered by soon to be IPO’d OnMobile can be activated via IVRS, SMS and…

IndiaFM.com Re-Designed; Renamed Bollywoodhungama.com - 7 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 10 Jan 2008 09:22 AM PST

[by Cerius Shah] IndiaFM.com has gone in for a re-design as well as a new name. Bollywoodhungama.com is the new skin for the entertainment portal. Not a lot different in…

Updated: Motorola To Acquire Asian Digital Music Service Soundbuzz - 4 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 07 Jan 2008 12:26 AM PST

Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has announced that it will acquire online and mobile music distribution company Soundbuzz. The details of the deal have not been disclosed, but Motorola expects to close…

Nokia Ties Up With Infomedia, SIMCA And Music Labels For OVI - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 03 Jan 2008 10:31 PM PST

[by Cerius Shah] The handset VAS market is all set to burst into the new year. Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is going medieval on other manufacturers with OVI with plans to…

On Saregama’s Music Store; Need For An Independent Aggregator; Meta Search For Music? - 4 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 09 Dec 2007 10:20 PM PST

Saregama’s online store has gone live, with an initial database of 40,000 songs. The tracks are priced at Rs. 12 each, and Saregama has plans to scale up to 4.76…

Head In The Sand, FICCI Wants DRM - 8 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 26 Nov 2007 08:41 PM PST

The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) believes that an ‘efficient digital rights management (DRM) system will give ‘a fillip to the fast-growing Indian digital entertainment and…

Worldspace Q3 Losses At $36.7 Million; Losing Subs In India - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 13 Nov 2007 02:15 AM PST

Not a good quarter for Worldspace, (NSDQ: WRSP) as the satellite radio broadcaster saw a churn of 8717 subscribers in India in Q3 (ending September 30), primarily as a result…

Videocon Buys PlanetM From BCCL For Rs. 200 Crore - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 06 Nov 2007 12:05 AM PST

Consumer durables company Videocon Industries has acquired Planet M, the music retail arm of BCCL (Times Group), for Rs 200 crore, reports Business Standard. The acquisition is by Videocon’s retail…

T-Series Obtains Restraining Order Against Google And YouTube From Delhi High Court - 6 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 05 Nov 2007 02:55 AM PST

You’re reading this here first: Super Cassettes Industries Limited, better known as T-Series, has obtained an interim restraint order against YouTube.com LLC and its parent company Google (NSDQ: GOOG) from…

Saregama Plans Online Music Store; Who’s Going To Change The Game? - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 24 Oct 2007 08:26 PM PST

Music company Saregama India (earlier known as HMV) plans to launch their revamped site next week, offering users downloads of music from a catalog of 3,00,000 songs, reports Radioandmusic.com. The…

BigAdda Plans To Launch IM, Music, Mobile Offerings - 5 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 23 Oct 2007 12:13 AM PST

(Originally posted Oct 22) Reliance ADA Group’s social networking portal BigAdda intends to offer an Instant Messenger service to its users, reports the Hindu. Email and Instant Messenger are two…

IMI Targets Mobile Content Piracy Via Memory Cards; Maharashtra Piracy Law - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 18 Oct 2007 11:35 PM PST

CDs are pretty much passe for piracy, and finally the Indian Music Industry (IMI) appears to have woken up to piracy of mobile content - transfers via bluetooth, data cable…

Reliance Inks Distribution Deal With Apple - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 09 Oct 2007 01:48 AM PST

Reliance has inked a deal with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) for opening Apple Stores in India, reports ET. 10 standalone iStores will be launched by the end of the year, starting…

Motorola Plans Music Service For India - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 08 Oct 2007 04:55 AM PST

That Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is focusing on music to sell its handsets in India is pretty obvious from it’s promotional campaigns with Bollywood superstar Abhishek Bachchan. ChicagoBusiness reports that the…