Today in Tech: Meet Art.sy, the Pandora of art

Also: Pandora CEO argues some artists are making millions; Box hits 14 million-plus users. 

Two years in the making, Art.sy aims to help art-lovers discover new works online.

Art.sy is mapping the world of art on the Web [THE NEW YORK TIMES]

For the Art Genome Project, Matthew Israel, 34, who holds a Ph.D. in art and archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, leads a team of a dozen art historians who decide what those codes are and how they should be applied. Some labels (Art.sy calls them "genes" and recognizes about 800 of them, with more added daily) denote fairly objective qualities, like the historical period and region the work comes from and whether it is figurative or abstract, or belongs in an established category like Cubism, Flemish portraiture or photography.

Tim Westergren: Some artists make over $2 million with Pandora [GIGAOM]

Westergren reminded his audience that his company is forking over 55% percent of its entire revenue stream to Soundexchange, the collection agency that is in charge of compulsory licenses for performing musicians. Traditional radio doesn't have to pay Soundexchange at all, and instead just pays money to composers. "We want the same standard being extended to web radio that currently is being applied to our competition," said Westergren.

Jack Dorsey is at Twitter officially on Tuesday afternoons; all his direct reports moved back to Costolo in January [TECHCRUNCH]

He'll be spending less time on Twitter now, it seems: He is turning back to the schedule he held back before he returned in the interim operational role — that is, he is coming in to Twitter now on Tuesday afternoons. He may go in more, but the firm day is Tuesday — PM, to be exact.

Box has over 14 million users with 92% of Fortune 500 companies using it [THE NEXT WEB]

A lot has changed since the company's inaugural user conference in 2011. Back then, the company had 7 million registered users spanning over 100,000 businesses and it experienced tremendous growth within the enterprise sector, having slowly moved away from being a pure consumer service.

Today, Box's conference is three times larger and sold out. Levie joked that while President Barack Obama was in town this week, even he couldn't get a ticket to the show.

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• Spotify CEO: Music access, not ownership, is the future

  Daniel Ek, the CEO of the online music service Spotify, has ambitious plans for penetrating the U.S. market. Profitability, for now, isn't a concern.

  FORTUNE -- One week after Spotify launched in the U.S., CEO and co-founder Daniel Ek discussed his company's rapid growth at Brainstorm Tech in Aspen, Colo.

  The simple, legal "all-you-can-eat" music service has made waves in parts of Europe with a freemium model that lets users listen to MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jul 21, 2011 1:59 PM ET
  Posted in: Apple Inc., danielek, iTunes, Music, Pandora, Pandora Media, Rdio, Spotify, United States

• Don't call it the next tech bubble - yet

  Signs of exuberance are everywhere: Tesla roadsters, soaring real estate, overpriced vinegar - and eye-popping valuations for pre-IPO companies like Facebook and Zynga. So why are so many Silicon Valley denizens reluctant to use the B-word?

  By David A. Kaplan, contributor

  FORTUNE -- Michael Dreyfus, 49, is a leading real estate broker in the heart of Silicon Valley. During the winter he sensed the housing market was coming back, though he hadn't MORE

  Jul 11, 2011 5:00 AM ET
  Posted in: bubble, Facebook, Groupon, IPOs, LinkedIn, LivingSocial, Lou Montulli, Mark Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft, MySpace, Netscape, Pandora Media, Sequoia Capital, Silicon Valley, Skype

• Pandora: The money-losing music machine

  In Pandora's current business model, it loses money on every transaction. Nevertheless, it's riding the wave of tech IPOs.

  FORTUNE -- There is a fundamental problem with Pandora Media's business model: the more its product is used, the more money it loses. That's the opposite of what makes a company viable in the long term. Nevertheless, the online music service is asking public shareholders to finance its growth so it can MORE

  Dan Mitchell, contributor - Jun 13, 2011 1:33 PM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Google, IPO, Online music store, Pandora Media

• Not Pandora's Box: Why the music company's IPO isn't the sign of a bubble

  Pandora's IPO might look like dot-com Bubble 2.0. But the company actually has a sound case for going public.

  By Kevin Kelleher, contributor

  In 1995, Netscape went public. Underwriters believed the stock was worth $14 a share but demand was so strong they doubled the offering price overnight. It rocketed to $75 a share on its first day. But Netscape was a browser maker, with no clear plan to make money. In time, it was bought MORE

  Scott Olster, editor - Mar 1, 2011 5:00 AM ET
  Posted in: Facebook, Initial public offering, Morgan Stanley, Netflix, Netscape, OpenTable, Pandora, Pandora Media, tim westergren, Time Warner

• How the iPhone spills your secrets

  A Wall Street Journal investigation caught smartphone apps sharing information with advertisers about users' age, gender, location, political views and even sexual orientation

  Grindr is a free social networking application for Apple's (AAPL) iPhone, iPad and iPod touch that uses the devices' geolocation technology to help gay and bisexual men see photos, chat with and hook up with partners that happen to be nearby.

  What Grindr's more than 1 million users may MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 18, 2010 8:12 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Grindr, iPad, iPhone, Mobile, Pandora Media, privacy, Tablets, textPlus, Wall Street Journal