GigaomTaylor Swift is right about music, and the industry should act on her ideas
Country star Taylor Swift made some bold and hopeful claims this week about where the music business is going. We should listen to her. Read more »
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Country star Taylor Swift made some bold and hopeful claims this week about where the music business is going. We should listen to her. Read more »
Goal highlights are the most exciting, shareable and spontaneous moments of the World Cup. But ESPN and others are using copyright law to remove them from social media. Read more »
Twitter has been ignoring policies on reassigned phone numbers, resulting in a flood of text spam, according to a $5 million class action complaint. Read more »
Did the CEO of Tesla really “give away” the company’s patents. No, but he did do something more important. Read more »
Did a local politician send the police to raid the house of someone who was using Twitter to mock him? Read more »
Twitter appears to have backed down in a legal fight over who can use dead celebrity images. The case could have broader ripples for online expression. Read more »
A drugstore’s decision to tweet a photo of a famous actress leaving its store raises the question of where to draw the line between news and endorsement rights. Read more »
In a plot reminiscent of the Cold War, the US created a clandestine social network like Twitter in Cuba that was funded by USAID and relied on text messages. Read more »
Bloomberg now has sentiment analysis tools to tell traders about spikes in positive or negative chatter on Twitter. Read more »
Twitter lets people use famous names and icons so long as — in the eyes of Twitter — they’re not harming the original brand. A new lawsuit over James Dean will… Read more »