Social Music Service Updates: Yobo.com and 8box.cn

The social music recommendation service MyStrands announced it completed series B financing, which brings its total financing to $55 million. The social music recommendation services in China are not so lucky, but they are trying their best to develop services which can attract Chinese online music users, most of them rely on Baidu mp3 search [...]

Legitimate Music Retailer 9Sky Raises US$10M

A Chinabyte report says leading online music retailer 9Sky has raised more than US$10M from a Taiwan venture capital, which will get 30%-40% share of 9Sky in this deal. Before that 9Sky has ended financial cooperation with Linktone by the end of last year.
I believe this investment must have been nailed down in the beginning [...]

Comparing Online Music Services

Since the latest launches of online music services like Musicpaw and Yobo, we have been tracking online music services that can help you search, organize, listen, share and discover music online.
What differentiates music from other media like article, photo and video is that you would listen to music you like again and again, while you [...]

Interview With Neo From 8Box.cn

8Box.cn is a newly-launched music sharing and discovery community, it looks like a Webjay plus Last.fm. Users can create online music playlists and get system recommendation automatically based on your favorites. You can also make friends and create various groups for discussion. I recently conducted an email interview with Neo, a founder of 8box.cn.
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