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Social Music Network Honours Online Music Innovation, Winning Developer Will Win Trip To London And VIP Tickets To Last.fm Live Event

03.31.2008 -- Last.fm announced today that it is sponsoring a new music category in Mozilla's Extend Firefox 3 contest. As part of the contest, which encourages Web developers to create innovative extensions or add-ons for the forthcoming major update to the Firefox Web browser, Last.fm will be judging entries and will award the best music-related extension entry.

The winner will be flown to the Last.fm office in London to meet the team behind the world's fastest-growing free music Web site; will attend a Last.fm/Presents live event as a guest of Last.fm; and will also receive a Logitech Squeezebox network music player.    » read more »

03.27.2008 -- Last.fm, the online music discovery network owned by the CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS.A and CBS), announced today that F. Scott Woods has been named Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Germany. Woods, who joins Last.fm from Google where he served as Head of Strategic Partnerships and Business Development, Northern and Central Europe, will oversee the expansion of the Last.fm presence in Germany, the country with the second largest Last.fm userbase after the U.S.

Woods will help set up a permanent Last.fm office in Hamburg, where he will manage all marketing, advertising sales and business development partnerships inside Germany and Northern Europe, as well as work with Last.fm's established German PR firm on communications opportunities.    » read more »

Social music network launches application enabling users to listen to bands recommended by Bebo's new web drama heroine

NEW YORK and LONDON, 19th March, 2008 - Last.fm has teamed up with Bebo to enable fans of the social media network's new online drama, Sofia's Diary, to listen to main character Sofia's favourite music.

Last.fm's Superbands widget, integrated into the Sofia's Diary profile page on Bebo (bebo.com/sofiasdiary), allows fans of the new interactive web drama to listen to Last.fm radio stations based on the eponymous heroine's favourite music.    » read more »