YouTube’s library of licensed music just got a whole lot bigger thanks to a new deal with Merlin, the world’s fifth largest music label after Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI Group.  Merlin represents 14,000 artists including Aphex Twin and The Prodigy and now, when YouTubers upload videos with music from Merlin artists, instead of having the soundtrack removed from the video, the artists will receive royalties.


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The Times Group, a national media organisation in India, has announced an exclusive two-year agreement with sports content provider Perform. According to the terms, it will bring EPL highlights to...

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There are dozens of quality indexes of social media influence out there, but Klout has separated itself out as the leader over the last year. Yesterday, they reached a major milestone by accumulating 100 million Klout scores in their database. That's not to say they have 100 million "users" but Klout is one of those [...]

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American Express is scoring some major points with Groupon Hong Kong because the two companies are partnering up to bring benefits and rewards to consumers in Hong Kong. American Express Cardmembers can redeem Groupon cash vouchers at a savings of 60%, presently.Groupon Hong Kong has become the first Membership Rewards partner of American Express from the online group-buying category, adding a new component to the American Express Membership Rewards program. The partnership also shines a pretty [...]

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Two weeks ago a number of Facebook developers logged into the site to horrible news: their applications had suddenly been disabled without warning. The culprit was Facebook's spam-fighting bot, which automatically tracks the amount of negative feedback an application receives from users and blocks apps that are faring especially poorly (since they're probably spammy). But the bot was acting more aggressive than it should have been, and developers didn't have a way to tell how frequently users we [...]

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