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The Facebook app on your Android device, iPhone or iPad is about to get a lot more interesting.   Facebook has announced it is in the process of launching an App Center in the Android and Apple Stores Thursday night. It’s rolling out on three platforms: Android, iOS and Facebook.com (on the mobile web) itself. […]

Today, 85% of the world’s population has access to a mobile phone with voice and text capabilities. Five years from now, in 2017, the same amount of the global community will have access to high-speed 3G Internet through mobile phones, finds a new report from Ericsson.   By 2017, there will be 9 billion mobile […]

If Spotify, Rhapsody, or other streaming services won’t answer the question, maybe indie labels and artists will.  These figures are from an independent catalog of 87 albums and 1,280 songs, as posted on The Trichordist.  On Spotify, they seem consistent with reports of per-song payouts of roughly one-third to one-half of a penny.   per source: […]

The following comes from Tyler Hayes, a music enthusiast and owner of indie-focused site Liisten.  He’s hit a digital wall.  “I’d like to think I was optimistic rather than naive, but call it what you will.  Digital music, in its raw form of audio files, was supposed to liberate artists from the shackles of onerous […]

The music world just had a ‘moment,’ and it was brought to you by Amanda Palmer. Which almost guarantees a huge increase in artist pitches, music projects, and other music-themed Kickstarter ideas ahead.  Which, in turn, almost guarantees an influx of Kickstarter failures ahead.