Netflix now has a sizeable 23.4 million streaming subscribers, though investors are thoroughly unimpressed. Shares of NFLX are tanking following the first-quarter results, despite softer-than-expected losses.
Conferences: we’ve got a ton of them. Here, shake a stick: the Future of Money & Technology Summit just splashed in San Francisco, while Berklee is currently hosting Rethink Music in Boston. And up next, there’s the Worldwide Radio Summit, which kicks off April 27th at the W in Hollywood, closely followed by Musexpo on the 29th. Oh, and Digital Hollywood Spring starts April 30th in Marina del Ray, alongside the Variety Entertainment & Technology Summit.
Chirpify: it’s a Twitter-focused ecommerce platform with designs on musicians and the music industry. And it just raised $1.3 million to bolster its disruptive tweets.
The Echo Nest has just integrated Songkick data into its Rosetta Stone platform. Which basically spells access to a lot of concert-related information, including artist, venue, and gig information.
Lawsuits against individual file-swappers are so 2007, right? Not in Finland, where UMG and the IFPI have successfully forced local ISPs to disclose the identities of a number of infringing individuals. The targeted are responsible for leaking an album from Robin Packalen on the Pirate Bay. Torrentfreak first reported the case of retro anti-piracy.
eMusic is now eyeing Android with aggressive growth in their eyes; a beta-launched Android app combines the eMusic platform with a connoisseur-crafted music player. “We’re hoping it will become Android users’ primary music system,” one executive told Digital Music News, while CEO Adam Klein called it “a great app for true music collectors…”