Apple’s redesigned Internet services portal, iCloud, will arrive next week for iPhone and iPad users looking to sync music, contacts, and other media across their devices and Apple’s servers. There were few surprises revealed Tuesday during an event at Apple’s Cupertino headquarters chaired by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook…

Rumours persist that Google’s upcoming music play will be a $25-a-month locker offering streamed access to owned tracks including via Android. In the meantime, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is taking its less ambitious, music search-and-access service - announced 12 months ago - to India.

Broadcaster Star India has introduced two of its channels on Mimobi.tv, a mobile TV portal. Hindi GEC Star One and Tamil GEC Star Vijay will now be available for mobile users on supporting networks. Mimobi.tv is currently available on BSNL, Idea, Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), MTNL Delhi, Aircel Tamil Nadu and…

DesiHits, a portal specializing in fusion entertainment targeted at the South Asian community, has signed up with Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG, co-founder and CEO Anjula Acharia-Bath told ContentSutra. In November, the company had announced that it has tied up with Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG). Acharia-Bath said the company was…

As the music biz tries to cope with a disappearing physical CD sales market, EMI appears to be taking some steps in the right direction. The company’s digital revenues rose to £102 million in the six months to September 30, a 38 percent increase from the previous half’s £74 million…

Hyderabad-based mobile-content distributor IMI Mobile is buying digital music distributor DX3 of London as a beachhead into European and non-mobile markets. The UK company distributes music to white-label platforms like that of UK broadcaster ITV (LSE: ITV) and handled mobile download marketing for EMI’s pop band Alphabeat, but wants to…

As we gear up for Tuesday’s EconMusic conference in London, we’ve assembled a list of the top five recent music deals by size. Given the tremors in the music industry, it should come as no surprise that the deals—both in size and kind—are quite varied by sector, as players look…

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is close to formally launching its iTunes store in India states this BS report. A truncated version of the India store, featuring only iPhone apps has been live for a while. The main meat, which includes music, movies, podcasts and TV shows are conspicuous by their absence.…

OnMobile Global has inked exclusive deals with around 40 companies from the South Indian Music companies Assocation (SIMCA). Medianama reports the deal value is around Rs 8.5 crores. A fairly small amount considering it will be spread across 40 labels, of which Satyam Audio has majority content share, accounting to…

Sure enough, the days without incident were indeed numbered. T-series has issued a notice to Guruji.com amongst other websites including MSN, MySpace and Bharatstudent. It has accused them of allowing users to upload content on their platforms. The report features quotes from T-Series, VP (digital content), Neeraj Kalyan, stating in…

Sequoia funded Guruji.com has launched a music search service. The release claims the service indexes songs ranging from 1932 till date, across all ‘major’ Indian languages. I put it to the test by throwing names of classical Indian artists from a 2003 recording and was pleased to find it threw…

Why did Times of India buy Virgin Radio? Because of the internet, A.P. Parigi, CEO of its TIML unit, suggested to FT. “‘Now is the time, Parigi,’ (group CEO Vineet Jain) told me. ‘Pick an asset and an appropriate price.’ He sees this market as one of untapped potential because…

Indian media company Bennett, Coleman & Co, owner of Times of India newspaper, has made its biggest international buy: it has bought out UK’s Virgin Radio for about $106 million. SMG, the Scottish broadcaster, owner of Virgin Radio (it bought the company in 2000), sold the national AM licence and…

Indian Music label T-Series today obtained an interim injunction against Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Inc and Yahoo India from the Delhi High Court, contentSutra has learned. The Court issued a notice, in the interim, restraining Yahoo from streaming T-Series owned content on their portal Yahoo Video. T-Series is the largest music…

While some have been saying that the horizontal portal is waning in influence, Web18, the internet company from the Network18 group is set to open its so-called-horizontal portal In.com for beta testing. I met Rishi Khiani (COO, Web18) and Varun Singh, (CTO, Web18) yesterday for a sneak peek at In.com.…

MySpace India, which as been live since January, has finally been “officially” launched: there’s a gig today in Mumbai featuring Pentagram, The Super Fuzz, Them Clones, followed by an after-party featuring The Raghu Dixit Project, Shaair and Func and Swarathma. MySpace is also planning a Developer Platform workshop in Bangalore…

Mohit Anand, formerly the Country Manager For Microsofts Entertainment & Devices Division will be joining Channel [V] as General Manager for Channel [V], from the 21st of April, reports Indiantelevision.com. It’ll be interesting to see if Anands time in the gaming business (he was with MS for eights years), and…

The Kareena Kapoor - Saif Ali Khan starrer Tashan (English: Style) appears to be running into hot water with Onyx dragging Hungama and Yash Raj Films (YRF) to court over an alleged breach of contract. The matter, up for hearing on March 31, refers to a joint-venture YRF entered into…

This could be a key event for content providers in India. Three industry bodies - Film and Television Producers Guild of India (FTPGI), the Indian Music Industry (IMI) and ASSOCHAM have signed MoUs to together ensure a parity in rates for content, and join forces for combating piracy. At Convergence…