Archive for August, 2011

This week in digital music »

Google Magnifier to boost music discovery This week Google not only acquired Motorola Mobility, they also launched a new music blog service named “Magnifier”. The service, which is described as “Google Music’s cousin”, makes music recommendations to users and offers daily free downloads. The downloads will be made available in the users cloud library . [...]

This week in digital music »

The world of digtal music is not exactly moving at break neck speed right now. Thank god then for Spotify – a company that always manages to stir up feelings and get into all sorts of amusing trouble. First of all, the good news: True to their style, Spotify executed a flawless marketing campaign and quickly [...]

Back to work »

After some well deserved R&R – this blog is back. While I was struggling to enjoy some time off – Spotify finally managed to go live in the US, execute a successful marketing campaign (as usual) and then they went and got slapped with their first law suit for patent infringement. The law suit is [...]