Google (depending on where you read) is now ten years old, and has recently released its own version of a web browser to many mixed reviews. Is it world domination or just the demise of Microsoft that Google is trying to achieve?

Let's start by going back in time. In January 1996, co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin began work on a search engine called BackRub.

Today's musicians, it would seem, go to great lengths in order to promote new material: Radiohead initially released InRainbows via download only, Coldplay gave away downloads to promote their new album whilst Oasis employed the raw talent of street buskers in New York to promote their latest offering, Dig Out Your Soul.

Manchester's answer to the Beatles has really caused quite a stir with this latest offering to the public as hoards of excited and expectant fans gathered across the five boroughs of New York city in anticipation.

The music industry in the UK is flailing. UK album sales were down 11% last year and major, established artists are now finding that album sales are not their main source of revenue.

Enter Harvest Entertainment, management services for the entertainment industry. Harvest have put their clever marketing skills to good use and have controversially found a new path in which bands and pop stars alike can increase revenue from record sales.