WELLINGTON, New Zealand – With 150 million registered customers, about 50 million hits daily and endorsements from music superstars, Megaupload.com was amid the world’s greatest file-sharing sites. Massive enough, according to a U.S. indictment, that it earned founder Kim Dotcom $ 42 million last year alone. The film market howled that the site was creating funds off pirated material. Even [...]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Google Inc has turned on the music at its new on the web retailer, aiming to wrest the lead from Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc in audio entertainment distribution despite the absence of a key record label. Google Music, with much more 13 million songs, will be integrated with Android Market, the company’s online retailer for smartphone apps and videos as it plays catch-up [...]

Think about all that video sitting on your hard drive, all these clips of the children, the vacations, the graduations, your karaoke parties. Now imagine truly doing a thing with it. Enter the Internet-based video-editing service Magisto, which right now announced its public rollout, along with $ 5.five million in a series B funding round led by Horizons Ventures, the private venture firm of Li Ka-shing, [...]

(Reuters) – Canada’s Research In Motion Ltd will unveil a new cloud-primarily based social music sharing service named BBM Music, as companies start to bet on entertainment delivered above the Web that incorporates social networking capabilities. Analysis in Motion, the maker of BlackBerry phones, stated decide on music from Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music and [...]

The other day my buddy Mordy asked me this query: Are you much more or less linked given that you started out spending so much time on the Web?   I’m much more connected to people I don’t know. I’m equally linked to the people I do know. I’m less connected to myself. This is a preview of Does the Internet Make You More or Less Connected?. Read the full post (1111 words, 2 [...]

[Far more from Mashable: Takin’ VC Funds: Rap Song Is An Anthem For Startups] This Friday morning, the bountiful beast that is the Internet has bestowed upon us a brand new days-of-the-week-themed musical providing: Thursday, a new mixtape from The Weeknd. The Weeknd, Toronto-primarily based R&ampB singer Abel Tesfaye, is an Net-born star who released his debut mixtape, Property of Balloons, [...]

Internet radios You have your first edition of William L. Shirer’s “Berlin Diary’’ on your lap, a mug of Ovaltine by your side, and a wooden radio set on the table. Were it not for the ear buds you’re wearing, and your iPhone or iPod, you might be able to imagine you are taking a rest from your adventures in wartime Europe. This digital music player looks so much like a 1940s tabletop [...]