If Apple were all-powerful, iTunes Radio would have killed Pandora. But it did not. You think the way everybody’s speculating next week Apple is gonna announce that Jimmy Iovine was cured from cancer and Steve Jobs was brought back from the dead. Most people don’t even think about on demand streaming services, YouTube serves them […]

It had a lousy name, a dot net address and a terrible website. Sure, Mossberg and Swisher were starting all over, but they could have given themselves a fighting chance! “AllThingsD” was a brand, never underestimate the difficulty in building one and the power in an established one. Scott Weiland was in Velvet Revolver, what […]

They couldn’t make it on their own. Walt Mossberg, one of America’s two most famous tech columnists, shot himself in the foot. He left the “Wall Street Journal.” They’re finding out in news what we already know in music, you can go it alone, the internet allows you to do this, but in a chaotic […]

He thinks curation is bullshit. That’s right, we’ve been hearing for years that the solution to the industry’s problem, what’s going to save streaming, is curation. But Kyncl believes it’s all about fragmentation, not curation. Let’s start at the beginning. Kyncl is a bigwig at YouTube. Google him. And like the musicians bitching about not […]