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Social Net Buzznet Raises Funds, Acquires Music Firm Qloud

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 31, 2008 - 6:42am.

Los Angeles - Buzznet, a music-focused social media site, has raised as much as $25 million in its third round of financing, from investors including Universal's Interscope Records, PaidContent reports.

Steve Case's Revolution Launches Qloud Online Music Service

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 1, 2007 - 8:23am.

Washington - Revolution, the DC-based investment firm headed by AOL (NYSE: TW) co-founder Steve Case, said on Thursday that it has formally launched a free online music service called Qloud. The service debuted as a Facebook application less than three months ago, and already has 1 million registered users and 120 million recorded plays.

Qloud Launches Beta Test of Tagging-Based Music Search Service

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 11, 2006 - 1:20pm.

Washington - Washington-based start-up Qloud (pronounced "cloud") on Wednesday announced the launch of a public beta test of its "people-powered music search service" and plug-in for Apple's iTunes music player. The search service is powered by tags generated by users on individual songs in their iTunes music libraries. Tags can be provided by music preference, demographics, and category -- such as "workout," allowing users to search, for example, for the songs most tagged "workout" and "hip-hop" by women in New York aged 20-30. "Qloud will do for music discovery what Google(TM) has done for web discovery," said Qloud co-founder Toby Murdock.