News Spinnin' Records is believed to be selling to a major for around $100m News Elsewhere, Allyson Cherny-Weston has joined from Sony as Vice President of Brand Partnerships Analysis On the conundrum faced by major labels as they throw sticks at Google News Warner CEO Steve Cooper suggests the major had little choice thanks to safe harbor laws News Finetunes and Phonofile to become wholly owned subsidiaries of The Orchard News New solo material will be released independently later this year News With over 100 million active users, Russian Facebook VKontakte (VK) has the same sized audience as Spotify Analysis Streaming was up over 40% at US$ constant currency - with recorded revenues growing