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The meme-friendly site is positioning itself as the the ultimate go-to for pop-music centered celebrity journalism--and aims to capitalize on the branded opportunities that come with that. Popdust , the pop-music news site that debuted earlier this year, is--like a post-haircut Justin Bieber--on the verge of coming of age. Over the last 30 days, the site has garnered 350,000 unique visitors, and has formed new partnerships with AOL, MTV, CNN, Gawker, Vibe, Grammy.com, and others

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1. After its extended cloud services failure, Amazon's Web Services system is cranking back to life , bringing some of the web's big-names with it.

1. Apple TV rumors, of the big-screen rather than plug-in-peripheral kind, have come and gone. But over the last day or so a huge debate on the topic has arrived online with some heavyweight names taking part .

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Keeping track of the music stored on various computers and mobile devices can be a pain. This week, Amazon unveiled Cloud Drive and Cloud Player, two services that let you store music in the cloud and access it from any Web browser or Android device. You can upload your music library to the Cloud Drive from a Mac or PC, or buy songs on Amazon’s MP3 Store and save it to the drive.

1. Amazon has just pulled the veil from its music locker-in-the-cloud system only to run into organizational and potential legal trouble. It's Sony Music this time , angry that Amazon's use of cloud streaming to clients is denying it potential royalty income.

1. Late yesterday Amazon proved last-minute rumors true and released the Amazon Cloud Player--a cloud-based music "locker" and streaming system that beats Apple to the punch

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1. Kodak may (or may not) be a fading name associated with photography, but no matter how much its core business is slipping away, it's not dead yet--and if a dispute over patents with Apple and RIM concerning mobile digital photography is anything to go by, it'll be around for a while. That's because the royalties Kodak may be due could total over $1 billion

In what may be a perfect "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" maneuver, Samsung has just revealed its answer to the iPad 2--a new set of Galaxy Tab tablets. In terms of specs, they're pretty much clones of Apple's offering.

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Google 's cloud-based music service may already be up and running--if you know where to look for it. A hacker from the XDA-Dev forum found something interesting when he forced the Motorola Xoom Android tablet's music app onto his Android smartphone: a "Sync Music" feature. So the hacker tested the out the feature

Web TV destination and production company Next New Networks has built its brand by scouting for talent on YouTube--but it looks like Google and YouTube may have been the one scouting NNN. Today YouTube, which Fast Company profiled in our February issue , announced that it had acquired NNN in a deal that could turn YouTube from content host to content creator. "Since launching in March 2007, the Next New Networks team has built a highly effective platform for developing, packaging and building audiences around original web video programming, attracting over 2 billion views and 6 million subscribers," wrote Tom Pickett, cirector of global content operations, in a blog post .

The cash will come largely from subscription services, predicts an analyst/soothsayer. Music stores like iTunes, having already seen declined growth, will suffer. Digital music revenues worldwide could reach $20 billion per year by 2015, according to new report from the research firm Ovum .