We’re hearing that iTunes will be implementing Facebook Connect support in the near future, allowing users to share some of their recent purchases with their friends on Facebook. We’re still gathering more details, but it sounds like this could happen quite soon.
It certainly adds up. Over the last few weeks, iTunes has been [...]
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Today, during his keynote address at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek had a big revelation: “On certain days, we’re consuming more Internet capacity than Sweden has as a country.”
Ek made the statement when asked why Spotify chose to use a P2P model, rather than centrally store all of its music [...]
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A few weeks ago, Kelly Porter, an M&A expert at Woodside Capital Partners, predicted on TechCrunch that TwitJump, a Twitter management tool for businesses, would be acquired by Twitter or another startup. Well, Porter’s prophecy ended up becoming a reality, except that the buyer isn’t Twitter. FundingUniverse, a matchmaker that connects entrepreneurs with [...]
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