Links for 2007-05-31

Posted May 31, 2007 1:17 AM.

The rumour is that last.fm has been bought by CBS for $280 Million I find myself surprisingly depressed by this revelation, although it does sort of rather explain some of the conversations I had with them a while back about what it's like inside large organisations and how acquirees fare...
Apple have finally launched the DRM-free higher quality version of songs on iTunes - it's called iTunes Plus Obviously it's EMI only at the moment, but it's sufficiently interesting for me to go and see if there's anything I've bought over the last few years that I could upgrade.

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Could you actually get the upgrading to work? Only 6 of my previously purchased songs came up as upgradable, and for a total cost of £1.20 for the lot to be upgraded, I thought why not! - However when I went though with it, I just timed out... I tried 4 times then gave up!

→ Posted by: stuart at May 31, 2007 8:52 AM

That's no rumour. Here's the press release:
"Last.fm is one of the most well established, fastest growing online community networks out there," said Moonves. "They have a great management team that understands how to build an engaged and passionate community where users learn, discover and share music globally. Their demographics also play perfectly to CBS’s goal to attract younger viewers and listeners across our businesses. Last.fm adds a terrific interactive extension to all of our properties and also is a huge step in CBS Corporation’s overall strategy of expanding our reach online to transition from a content company into an audience company."

I wouldn't say I'm glad you're depressed, but I'm relieved that you're not celebrating. Call me Eeyore, but it doesn't look like good news to me.

→ Posted by: Phil at May 31, 2007 10:25 AM

:-( I really hope Last.fm will flourish under CBS. I agree though, it doesn't feel right.

→ Posted by: David Thair at May 31, 2007 12:59 PM

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