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Prince’s albums and songs utterly dominate Apple’s iTunes Store charts
Earlier today, the artist known as Prince died at the age of 57…
Prince dead at 57
The artist known as Prince has died at the age of 57…
Apple: iTunes Allowances to end May 25, 2016
After April 13, 2016, you will no longer be able to create a new iTunes Allowance…
Apple could be moving their iCloud servers in-house
China-based server brand vendor Inspur has been rumored to have entered Apple’s datacenter supply chain…
Report: Apple designing its own servers to avoid snooping
Apple has begun designing its own servers partly because of suspicions that hardware is being intercepted before…
Apple’s move to bring iCloud infrastructure in-house predicated by backdoor fears
Apple’s multi-year effort to develop its own servers and networking hardware has reportedly been driven…
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…
Inside ‘Project McQueen,’ Apple’s plan to build its own cloud
For the past several months, Apple has been working on ‘Project McQueen,’ a plan to become…
Apple’s deal with Google for cloud services may not last
In its bid to raise its name in cloud computing services, Google nabbed a big-name customer…
Apple signs on with Google Cloud Platform, cuts spending with Amazon Web Services
Alphabet’s Google has quietly scored a major coup in its campaign to become an enterprise cloud computing powerhouse…
Kanye West’s botched album release has cost him $10 million in sales
Kanye West’s troubled release of his latest album, ‘The Life of Pablo,’ has already cost the hip-hop star at least $10 million in sales…
Kanye West says he’s $53 million in debt and his new album will never ever be on Apple Music or iTunes, only Tidal (whatever that is)
It’s been a busy few days for self-proclaimed genius West, who announced he is $53 million in debt, and proclaimed himself this generation’s Walt Disney…
David Bowie’s ‘Blackstar’ sales soar as musical and financial legacy endures
Sales of David Bowie’s last album – released two days before his death from cancer – soared…
15 years of iTunes, the most important app that Apple has ever created
On a chilly, rainy day in San Francisco 15 years ago, Steve Jobs took the stage at the 2001 Macworld Expo…
‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ soundtrack now available via Apple Music and iTunes Store
The 23-track album opens with the 6:23 “Main Title and the Attack on the Jakku Village” and closes with…
Leaving an iTunes Store page open in iTunes can kill your laptop battery
If you use a laptop, and your battery dies quickly, check and see if you accidentally…
Is Adele proving Apple’s music strategy is wrong?
Until the release of Adele’s newest album “25,” the future of the music industry was obvious…
How to use Apple Music
About a week ago, a friend of mine offhandedly mentioned recently buying an album through iTunes…
Why Adele isn’t streaming her new album on Apple Music or Spotify
By restricting her new album ’25’ from streaming services Apple Music and Spotify, Adele is playing to her greatest strength…
Adele rejects streaming music services, including Apple Music, for ‘25’
The answer is no…
Adele’s new album ’25’ may break ‘impossible’ sales record
You might be surprised to learn that the balance between physical and digital music sales, while shifting, still heavily favors CDs…
German watchdog investigates Apple’s audiobooks deal with Amazon
Germany’s Federal Cartel Office has begun an investigation into Apple Inc’s arrangement with Amazon…
Music charts a mess as Apple’s iTunes Store discounts Adele, Carrie Underwood
It’s hard to measure what’s actually number 1 when everything is a different price…
Apple won’t be selling Adele’s album in retail stores
Adele’s upcoming album, ’25,’ won’t be sold in Apple’s retail stores…
Why Apple wants to kill free music
Artists have long hated ad-supported free services…
Jimmy Iovine: Apple Music ‘going really well,’ no ad-suported free tier ‘shell game’
Apple doesn’t want to be a source of free tunes, according to Jimmy Iovine…
Apple Music: Gone and forgotten
Within 30 days after Apple Music debuted, Apple touted 11 million signups. But…
So far, Apple Music has failed; it’s very difficult to justify the monthly subscription
One thing, among many, that Apple needs to fix in Apple Music:…
Apple delivers Apple Music, iTunes Movies and iBooks to China
Apple today announced that Apple Music, iTunes Movies and iBooks are now available to customers in China…
Apple accepting Red Cross donations via iTunes to help Syrian refugee crisis
Apple Inc. has announced via its U.S. website a donation program that allows users to donate…
Exxon + Wal-Mart + Chevron + $7 billion = Apple Inc.
It was a sign of how the corporate world has changed when Apple Inc. in late February became twice as valuable as Exxon Mobil…
Apple working to unify cloud services platform amid open-source push, sources say
Apple is developing a technology platform that can power all of its Web services, such as iCloud and iTunes, which have long run…
Apple admits it has ‘homework to do’ to improve Apple Music
There’s a lot of work going into making the product better…
How to pick up cheap movies from Apple’s iTunes Store every day
There’s an easy way to save a good chunk of change picking up digital movies…
Why Apple can’t and won’t fix iTunes
There is no easy way to say this. iTunes is a dinosaur…
More blood on Apple iTunes Store’s play button: Columbia House owner files for Bankruptcy
The parent company of Columbia House on Monday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy…
Apple Music’s Jimmy Iovine: ‘No one is going to be able to catch us or do it better’
Apple Music is more than the sum of its parts…
Why do iTunes Store music links open in Apple Music?
Many record labels and artists who sell music on the iTunes Store…
Apple looking for developers to help deliver more ‘exciting’ new apps for Android
Apple’s first pair of applications for Android, Apple Music and Move to iOS…
AP reviews Apple Music: Innovative but cluttered
Apple Music feels like an attempt to take on every competitive…
Apple Music might be the best thing for indie music labels
An artist signed with a major label gets about 20 percent of the cut of a song…
