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D7: The Bag O’ Schwag	Every year, I bring you a list of the various giveaways in the annual D: All Things Digital bag o’ schwag. It’s a tradition. With an influential audience of tech execs, investors, journalists, and other Valley folk, tech companies are eager to get there wares into the bag. Let’s take a peek: The bag itself this year is a sort of turquoise blue gym bag from Samsonite called the Outlab. Not in the bag, at least to start off, but still handed out: two shirts. One is a t-shirt, wi...	May 26, 2009
Will Carriers Save The Subscription Music Business?	The news this week that Napster is relaunching with a $5-a-month subscription plan that includes 5 free MP3 downloads would appear to be a troubling development for RealNetworks‘ (RNWK) rival Rhapsody service, which will set you back $13 a month for a streaming service that lacks the free MP3s. It is also no doubt irritating to Real that it comes from a company that is now a unit of Best Buy (BBY): in the past, the Best Buy digital music store was a re-branded version of Rhapsody, which ca...	May 22, 2009
Wells Fargo: Bank of America Redux	Read yesterday post on Bank of America (BAC), then come back.http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifWells Fargo (WFC) reported today and again, at first blush, great news.Here are the basics:Record profits reflected business momentum across the newly combined Wells Fargo-WachoviaRecord Wells Fargo net income of $3.05 billionRecord net income applicable to common stock of $2.38 billionEarnings per common share of $0.56, after merger-related and restructuring expense of $206 million ($0.03 per common...	April 23, 2009
TurboTax needs a better strategy for moving customers online	Filed under: Intuit Inc (INTU)Over the years, I've been a loyal customer of Intuit's (NASDAQ: INTU) TurboTax. The product has evolved nicely -- and has certainly made my life easier. In fact, I've recommended it to a variety of people. But recently things haven't been so good. You see, when I originally purchased the product, there was no online offering. Instead, I would get a CD in the mail. Needless to say, it's kind of Old School. Well, my CD drive went bad and so I can't load up the new v...	April 08, 2009
Banking Your Savings	Before you walk, you must learn to crawl. Before you invest, you must learn to save. Luckily, saving money is quite a bit easier to do than investing it. Finding the cash to save is not always easy, but banking your savings is fairly straight forward. When you are able to earn more income than your expenses, you will eventually start accumulating cash. For some, this comes easier than for others. The key usually involves living below your means and adopting a frugal lifestyle. Alternatively, you...	April 07, 2009
Stealing Music: Is It Wrong Or Isn’t It?	Music used to be so simple. You listened to it on the radio for free, but you didn’t get to say what would be played, and there were lots of commercials. If you went to a concert, you paid. And if you bought a record, tape or CD, you paid. People copied CDs to cassette tapes and passed them on to friends. That was just about as far as P2P music piracy got. Stealing music was when you shoplifted a CD or cassette from the record store, and it was pretty clearly understood that it was “...	March 31, 2009
The Sorry State Of Music Startups	Online streaming music startups are in one very sorry place. On demand streaming rates range from .4 cents to 1 cent per stream - this is what the startups pay to the labels every time they play a song for a user. Add bandwidth and storage costs on top of that, which aren’t trivial for services that want to stream music quickly on demand. The result is hundreds of millions of dollars flowing from venture funds to startups to labels. Little of it makes its way to artists, and advertising re...	March 27, 2009
Will Borders Stop Selling CDs and DVDs?	Filed under: Bad news, Rumors, Consumer experience, RecessionThe Consumerist, a website published by the parent of Consumer Reports, has a potential lead on an alleged development at Borders Group (NYSE: BGP). Forgive all the wishy-washy verbiage; nothing is confirmed yet. An individual identifying him/herself as a Borders employee informed the website that the chain is severely paring down its CD and DVD sections, leaving only top sellers and reducing the prices of those. Said alleged employee ...	March 25, 2009
MySpace Music Announces Executive Team (Internal Memo)	MySpace Music, the joint venture between MySpace and the major labels to provide free streaming music to users, is announcing its executive team this afternoon. The president of the company, Courtney Holt, was announced late last year. Today the company showing off the rest of the team. The key new executives are Jamie Kantrowitz (SVP Strategy and Global Marketing), Alex Maghen (CTO), Nancy Taylor (Lead Counsel, VP Business Development & Legal Affairs), Roberto Fisher (VP Product and Operati...	March 24, 2009
Counting Crows Go Label-Free	The Counting Crows have ended their eighteen-year label relationship with Geffen Records (now part of Universal Music Group), lead singer Adam Duritz says on the band’s website. Duritz says the band will go it alone, saying “the internet opens a world of limitless possibility, where the only boundaries are the boundaries of your own imagination.” Apparently UMG didn’t approve of breaking down some of those boundaries. Duritz added “Unfortunately, the directions we ...	March 18, 2009

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