Ian Rogers Tapped To Head Yahoo! Music
Ian Rogers has been named GM of Yahoo! Music. He replaces both David Goldberg and Robert Roback who recently announced their resignations. Rogers was most recently VP of product development for Yahoo Music and will report to Vince Broady who heads entertainment for the company. Like most download and subscription services other than iTunes and eMusic, Yahoo has struggled to gain consumer traction mostly because of their cookie-cutter...
Microsoft Loses Big In MP3 Patent Dispute With Alcatel-Lucent
A Federal jury in California ordered Microsoft to pay $1.52 billion for infringing on two Alcatel-Lucent MP3 audio code technology patents. Microsoft violated Alcatel-Lucent’s patents by using their MP3 technology in its Windows Media Player. Microsoft argued that it licensed the technology from the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany for $16 million. Fraunhofer and the former Bell Laboratories co-developed MP3 technology. Lucent,...
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