How cool is this: in its March 2010 issue, Fast Company recognized “The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies,” including 1o in the music biz:
1. Spotify - “the dominant source for free, legal, anytime, anywhere music.”
2. Apple Corps – for a band that broke up 40 years ago it’s more than cool that the band’s label sold 3.28M albums in 2009.
3. Man Made Music - Joel Beckerman is telling stories through to the tune of 200% company growth.
4. Vevo - Fast Company says, “Vevo is on its way to becoming the Hulu of music videos.”
5. Antares Audio Technologies - a Exxon seismic data researcher defines an era of rap & R&B…goze ta show ya!
6. Third Man Records - White Stripe’s guitarist Jack White’s kingdom.
7. Beats by Dr. Dre - those black & red headphones are a fashion mainstay.
8. Ticketfly - hedge-fund industry software applied to concert ticket buying.
9. Insomniac Productions – LA’s 2-day electronica festival.
10. Playdar – This open-source app looks for tunes on the Web and on users’ hard drives and pulls them together in a single jukebox.
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