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LOS ANGELES and BROOKLYN, N.Y., Jan. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ryan Adams' multi-track compilation album, Life After Deaf, has met with phenomenal success thanks not only to its incredible performances but also to the combined efforts of Silva Artist Management a/k/a SAM and TuneCore. Following the 15-disc live vinyl box set-which sold out almost instantly-SAM worked with TuneCore, the leading music distribution company and publishing administrator, to distribute a 174-track version....

NEW YORK, Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- According to online innovator Rich Gorman, cloud-based media services are poised to make several big leaps forward in 2013--and one of those leaps may be to include e-books and written content, in addition to the music- and video-based services that currently comprise the bulk of cloud-based media services. Gorman's prediction comes on the heels of a recent article from Tech Crunch, which heralds Legimi as one of the big up-and-coming...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Everybody’s favorite credit card sized computer has just gotten one step closer to becoming its own platform. The Pi Store has been unveiled today, offering all Raspberry Pi owners the ability to download applications and games for their 'Little Computers That Could'. Working together with IndieCity and Velocix, Raspberry Pi’s new store will be a place for developers to share not only games and tools, but tutorials as...

TEMPE, Ariz., Nov. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Calibrus, Inc., a development company specializing in Social Media and Mobile applications, announces Fanatic Fans acceptance into RocketSpace, a start up co-workspace program. RocketSpace is an acclaimed accelerator program for bay area technology start-ups. Going beyond the traditional co-working space, RocketSpace connects members with key players, fund raising opportunities and top talent in their industry. Only ten percent of...

Enid Burns for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Over half of all internet users choose to listen to music using internet radio or on-demand music services these days. This is according to the "Music Acquisition Monitor," a report from the NPD Group that tracks the use of Pandora and other music services. That 50 percent of internet users equates to about 96 million people who flock to music services such as Pandora, Last.fm, Slacker Radio, YouTube, VEVO, Rhapsody and other...

NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES, Nov. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SongPop, the hugely popular music trivia social mobile app, and The Collective, the full-service entertainment management, media and content production company have announced that they have teamed up to make exclusive playlists for music icons Alanis Morissette and Enrique Iglesias available to the +50 million music lovers who have downloaded the app since its launch in May 2012 as of November 7th. (Logo:...

DALLAS, Oct. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- PumpYouUp, Inc. releases their first published work, a Holiday album with a few darker songs for Halloween and one hour of entertainment via 23 tracks. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121026/PH00513 ) Robert Dede, founder of PumpYouUp, Inc. discusses the state of the music industry and IRFA, their new album, and the state of the PumpYouUp brand. Please search Spotify, GooglePlay, iTunes, Rhapsody, MOG, etc for "Christmas...

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Buzzam Radio, a personalized, activity- and location-aware radio app developed by an Oklahoma City software startup, was launched today and is now available in the iTunes store. "Millions have become frustrated with 'old school' broadcast, and have abandoned radio entirely for services like Pandora," said Greg Starling, president and COO of Buzzam. "The problem with Internet radio services is that they omit critical elements of radio...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Just days before they announced their latest smartphone, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times predicted Apple could be poised and ready to release their take on a music streaming service in the vein of Pandora or Spotify. If this rumor is true, it looks like Microsoft may beat them to the punch, as they plan to announce Xbox Music, a service with a catalog of music 30 million tracks deep and the potential penetration that a...

Enid Burns for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Just about every online action can potentially end up posting itself to Facebook. Listen to music on Spotify and your playlist is posted. Watch a show on Hulu and your friends will see that too. And if you read an article on Yahoo, that will get posted to your timeline with a "Jimmy read this article" tag. That's been the behavior of Facebook for the past year due to Open Graph, an API that lets developers automate posts to user...