Satellite Radio In Sirius Trouble

Sirius XM Satellite Radio will declare bankruptcy unless a deal can be worked out with Echostar owner Charlie Ergen who has been buying up Sirius debt in an effort to take over the concern. Sirius CEO Mel Karmazin has been circling the wagons with a team of lawyers and restructuring firm Alvarez & Marsal and is preparing to file for Chapter 11 protection before a $175 Million debt payment is due next Tuesday. Filing for Chapter 11...

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Is Native Instruments Just Targeting The MPC Crowd With Maschine, Or Do They Have Their Sites On A Bigger Market?

Native Instruments had long been rumored to be working on some sort of hardware controller for electronic musicians, and most industry watchers, including us, believed this would come in the shape of a MIDI DJ controller that would perfectly integrate with Traktor… WRONG! Now NI may still be working on such an endeavor, but for NAMM ’09 they trotted out the Maschine, a MPC-like hardware controller with a software...

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