The US Copyright Royalty Board has published its ruling which effectively imposes a truce between the demands of songwriters, music labels and digital music services by keeping royalties on CDs, music downloads, online streaming services and ringtones broadly unchanged. The ruling gives none of the parties what they asked for but should be good news for the growing digital music market in the US, and is likely to set the tone for other jurisdictions.
Michelle Wong, 14 October 2008
It was only a matter of time before Amazon added content delivery to its range of web services, which include the S3 storage service and EC2 on-demand computing. Amazon has just announced its intention to offer a content delivery service that could transform the industry and pose a serious...
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Michelle Wong, 18 September 2008
Amazon has announced a video-on-demand streaming service in the US as internet and consumer electronics companies try to match the capabilities of US cable and satellite providers. The internet retailer said that advertising-free movies and television shows could be watched instantly within a...
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Reiko Uchida, 05 September 2008
Elastra, which provides software for configuring, deploying and managing complete application systems in public and private compute clouds, has raised $12 million in Series B financing. The funding was led by Bay Partners, with new participation from Amazon.com and continued participation from...
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Reiko Uchida, 09 August 2008
RightScale, a Californian start-up formed in in 2007, has raised $4.5m in Series A funding from Benchmark Capital. The company provides a simple front-end console for Amazon Web Services, and provides another example of the current fascination of 'cloud computing' for Enterprises.
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Simon Fox, 25 April 2008