Preparing For Kuro, The Chinese iTunes

Last month we reported Taiwan ezPeer+ was entering Chinese digital music market. Turns out that it’s only a tip of the iceberg. A news conference in Beijing yesterday announced that IGRS, C-media and 22 music labels including the Big 4 are working together on digital music downloads.
The core protection technology is DMCP of IGRS, a [...]

Taiwan ezPeer+ To Enter Mainland China Digital Music Market

According to Digitimes, Taiwan based p2p music download service ezPeer+ will start selling digital music in mainland China in July.
Their package model is interesting, but a little confusing. They will offer rechargeable music player pre-loaded with 50 songs for RMB 199. I suppose this will be a physical music player like the iPod in your [...]

Personalized Music For Your Pet Dog

SuperDoggie is a new music platform for your pet dog, launched several days ago by professional music community Dofala.
The website itself is like myspace of dog. Master of dogs can upload pictures and write dairies of their pets, same as parents are doing at sites like babytree.
The real business is that you can [...]

Lagio: Place for Recording and Sharing Sounds

Lagio is a sound recording and sharing community launched by Guangzhou based Rock Mobile. Now it’s meeting Taiwan market, so it’s in Traditional Chinese. Originally it was in this domain, but it’s redirected to Lagio since Feb. 2007. In fact, IRock is another music community being operated by Rock Mobile.
Lagio means radio in Japanese. It’s [...]

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 [...]

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