The Economic Times reports on a tie-up between Creative and an iTunes clone named Sound Buzz, which hopes to spearhead growth of fee-based music services in the South and South-east Asian regions.
The two companies are setting up online music stores in Singapore, Hong Kong and India – regions where knock-off CDs burned by sophisticated piracy syndicates or downloaded off the Internet for free are hammering sales of recorded music.
Soundbuzz.Com and Creative launched the first of their online stores in Singapore on Tuesday, offering 250,000 songs at S$1.99 ($1.16) each in a format designed for quick downloading into Creative's digital music players.
Incidentally, Soundbuzz has an Indian influence, and was formed in 1999 :
Soundbuzz are a group of professionals spanning the Music, Internet and Finance industries and was co-founded in December 1999 by four partners including Sudhanshu Sarronwala (ex MTV Asia Managing Director), Shabnam Melwani (ex MTV Asia Communications Director), Justin Reis & Simon Lower.
I don't know how far they plan to get with such a woefully designed website :S The full story can be read here.
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