Mobile Minutes: Music industry frets; Milk VR app; Microsoft?s mobile aspirations; Airbnb?s legal threats
Music industry frets over YouTube despite streaming revenue
boost
Subscription streaming services pumped up the recorded-music
industry?s revenue last year, but music consumption on free, legal sites grew
faster, threatening the industry?s future growth, according to the
International Federation of the Phonographic Industry?s annual report.
Read more on The Wall Street Journal
Samsung releases Milk VR app on Google Play, makes Gear VR
headset optional
Samsung wants you to watch more 360-degree video content,
even if you don?t own one of the company?s Gear VR virtual reality headsets:
Samsung released a new MilkVR mobile app on Google Play Monday night that plays
back 360-degree videos in a kind of magic window mode, allowing users to look
around by simply panning with their mobile phone.
Read more on Variety
How Microsoft could become a mobile player without a broadly
adopted smartphone operating system
Microsoft Build is the company?s annual developer conference
where they communicate their latest strategies and deliverables to developers
and launch many new innovations. Build is extremely developer- focused and is
intended to inform current Microsoft developers as well as recruit more
developers to develop for Microsoft platforms.
Read more on Forbes
Airbnb hires general counsel as it faces growing legal
threats globally
Airbnb Inc. has added a new general counsel to help respond
to the increasing number of legal threats facing the room-rental company as it
expands globally.
Read more on Bloomberg