Music identification app Shazam is turning into a real success story, with its executives saying it’s driving more than  quarter of a billion dollars in digital downloads across major online music retailers. Speaking at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Shazam EVP Marketing David Jones said the service, which recently passed the 300 million user mark, tags about 10 million songs…

Long-established publicity firm 2:30, founded in 1997, and relative newcomer Grandstand Media & Management, founded in 2012, have merged, it was announced today in a statement. “With a combined 50 years of experience…” begins the introduction to Grandstand Media & Management’s new website. Lisa Goththeil and Dana Erickson, 2:30’s founders, have been named partners in…

DFA Records, the New York-based, scene-defining record label founded by Jonathan Galkin, Tim Goldsworthy and LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy in 2001, is suing Goldsworthy in Mahattan Civil Supreme Court. The news was first reported by DNAinfo on early Monday morning. DFA is accusing Goldsworthy of taking compensation for services he didn’t carry out, carrying outstanding loan debt,…

Ben Horowitz, the writer of this guest post, is co-founder and partner of Andreessen Horowitz. He was co-founder and CEO of Opsware (formerly Loudcloud), which was acquired by HP, and ran several product divisions at Netscape. He serves on the board of companies such as Capriza, Foursquare, Jawbone, Lytro, Magnet, NationBuilder, Okta, Rap Genius, SnapLogic…

Beats’ codenamed Daisy subscription service has been getting a puzzlingly large amount of coverage for a service that isn’t even launched yet. Beats’ Jimmy Iovine has somewhat smartly positioned Daisy as a challenger in what he has portrayed as a dysfunctional market in which the incumbents are flailing around, unable to even understand what the…