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Taylor Swift and the music industry wage war on Google’s YouTube, take fight to U.S. Congress
Taylor Swift and many in the music industry are officially taking their bad blood with Google’s YouTube to Congress…
Apple Music’s Iovine, Reznor, Cue and Kondrk on streaming’s new world order and why ‘we all should be’ worried
Twelve months of Apple Music have brought the service 15 million paid subscribers and, for its architects…
Apple Music will get a makeover, but it needs much more
Last year, Apple finally got into the subscription music business…
Largest shareholder urges beleaguered Pandora to sell the company
Beleaguered Pandora should hire an investment bank to help the company explore its strategic options including a sale….
Spotify dims as Apple Music shines
Apple Music subscriptions have surpassed the 13 million mark, up from the 11 million announced two months ago…
New Drake album to be exclusively available on Apple Music
Hip-hop artist Drake has some bad news for streaming-music service Spotify…
Taylor Swift’s Apple Music commercial spurred 431% jump in sales for Drake
Last week, Taylor Swift released a minute-long clip she filmed for Apple Music that featured her working out…
Apple’s iTunes Store suffers as streaming sales surpass digital downloads for first time
The Recording Industry Association of America has revealed that streaming music sales surpassed digital downloads…
Pandora said to have held talks about selling the company
Pandora Media, the largest Internet radio service, has held discussions about selling the company…
Replace the departed free iTunes Radio with free iTunes radio
In case you missed the news, Apple has now officially ended the free streaming of iTunes Radio…
Apple to start charging for iTunes Radio
iTunes Radio, Apple’s Pandora-style internet radio service, is going behind the $10 per month Apple Music paywall…
Apple Music subscribers could hit 100 million users in 6 years
100 million paying Apple Music members would far outstrip what any streaming music service has accomplished so far…
Apple Music nabs 10 million subscribers in 6 months, which took Spotify 6 years
Apple has passed 10m subscribers for its music streaming service, taking six months…
Ford’s in-car system finally works, thanks to Apple Siri’s arrival in software update
Ford is going to software update to provide Apple’s Siri voice-command system on its iPhone as part of the Sync in-car connectivity system…
Uh-oh, Spotify: People are paying up for Apple Music
At current the current rate, Apple Music could surpass Spotify’s paid subscriber base within a year…
Why Apple Music will win in streaming music
Some experts in the streaming music industry insisted that the world’s most valuable company wouldn’t win over listeners just because it was Apple…
Apple Music takes a huge bite out of Pandora
hares of Pandora Media have been utterly decimated, down by as much as 40% at the low…
Google Play Music adds free ad-supported radio as Apple Music’s June 30th worldwide arrival looms
Google Inc.’s music service will now include free Web-radio stations…
Apple on offense at WWDC 2015
Apple is on the offensive…
Beats 1: Apple’s strangest WWDC announcement, and why it sort of makes sense
Apple is launching a radio station…
Apple’s ambitious goal: Sign up 100 million Apple Music subscribers
Apple is going to save the music industry – again…
Apple still negotiating with record labels over Apple Music terms ahead of planned June 8th reveal
Down to the wire!
Apple planning to change 70/30 iTunes revenue split
Apple paid out $10bn to app developers last year, from in-app payments and subscriptions…
Apple Music to offer users three months free; Apple to largely abandon 15-year-old iTunes brand
When Apple unveils a new music streaming service at the Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday…
All-new Apple Music subscription service, rebuilt iTunes Radio to arrive with iOS 8.4 in late June
In a wide-ranging and highly recommended rundown of what to expect from WWDC 2015…
Catch up time: The lost year of Beats Music and how that may not matter for Apple
Apple is expected to debut Apple Music, a subscription streaming-music service…
Will deejays ruin Apple’s streaming music service?
The rumor mill is moving into overdrive about Apple launching…
Can Apple convince Spotify users to pay $10 a month for music?
Apple Inc. is reportedly ready to announce its own on-demand streaming music service…
For Apple Music to succeed, iTunes download sales must be sacrificed
One of the business tenets that has led to Apple’s incredible success…
Apple to webcast WWDC keynote live
A week ahead of the Monday, June 8th Worldwide Developers Conference…
Apple’s all-in bet to be watershed moment for music; $10/month unlimited subscription service and more
Apple is expected to offer unlimited on-demand streaming for $10 a month…
Apple in talks to sign Drake, Pharrell Williams, and David Guetta as iTunes Radio DJs
Apple is in talks to sign a rumored $19 million deal…
Spotify may cut ‘freemium’ to three months, sources say
Spotify may soon be limiting its free, ad-supported access to just three months…
Apple’s new streaming music service to offer free song sampling, free trial, other free features
Apple is still negotiating deals for the streaming service…
Apple iPhone increases U.S. smartphone market share lead
comScore today released data from comScore MobiLens and Mobile Metrix…
Apple still plans WWDC debut for new ‘iTunes Music’ subscription service
An announcement at the June 8th WWDC keynote is still planned…
Auto makers set up shop in Silicon Valley
As software giants and startups rush to make smarter vehicles, established car makers are scrambling…
Apple opens iTunes Radio Inventory to automated buys via iAd: Advertisers can target Apple listeners with phone, email identifiers
Rumors of iAd’s demise have been greatly exaggerated…
Apple CarPlay partner Toyota not planning on adding support any time soon
In Apple’s CarPlay, Siri, the voice-controlled assistant, guides the system…
Apple Inc., the record label?
When Apple’s streaming music service comes out later this year…
Apple’s new music strategy
Music streaming represents one of the rare incidents of Apple losing control of one of its product’s life cycle…