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Spotify teams with Samsung in face of growing Apple Music threat
Spotify Technology SA has a new ally in its competition with Apple Inc….
Warner Music Group sells its entire stake in Spotify, realizing $504 million
In its earnings call on Tuesday morning, Warner Music Group announced that it has now sold its entire stake in Spotify…
Infowars’ Alex Jones blasts Apple, Google, others; warns on internet censorship
In a video posted via Twitter, Infowars’ Alex Jones responds to the removal of links to his podcasts by Apple…
Apple’s ‘Infowars’ move thrusts tech giant into the debate over censoring content on internet platforms
Eliminating easy access to Infowars podcasts marks a rare, prominent foray for Apple into an issue…
Apple removes most of Alex Jones’ Infowars podcasts from iTunes Store
In other recent actions against Jones, Facebook suspended the radio and Internet host’s personal profile for 30 days…
Why Apple Music surpassed Spotify in the U.S.
Apple Music may still be tens of millions of paid subscribers behind Spotify in the global market…
Apple slices into Spotify’s lead in U.S. music market
Spotify, Apple and other streaming services do not publicly break down their subscriber counts by country..
Sonos files for IPO
Wireless speaker company Sonos Inc filed for an initial public offering on Friday…
Apple Music now has more paying subscribers in the U.S. than Spotify
Apple Music has more paying subscribers in the United States than Spotify…
Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s newest release highlights the extent of Apple Music’s disruption
The Tidal high-fidelity music streaming service was suddenly the center of attention…
Tastemaker George Ergatoudis leaves Spotify to join Apple Music
George Ergatoudis, one of the most influential tastemakers in the UK business, is leaving Spotify…
Google’s new ‘YouTube Music’ is not a threat to Apple Music or Spotify
Announced earlier this month, Alphabet subsidiary Google is launching its new YouTube Music service today…
Tim Cook confirms Apple Music’s 50 million users, big push into TV and movies
In a wide-ranging interview, Apple CEO Tim Cook divulged Apple Music subscriber numbers…
The EU needs to do more to reign in Apple, Amazon, and Google
The European Union intends to tighten the standards regulating the digital economy…
Spotify takes on Apple Music with new free tier
Spotify is going all in on its free tier to take on Apple Music…
EU proposes to regulate tech giants’ business practices following Spotify’s complaint against Apple
Tech giants including Google, Apple and Amazon will for the first time face rules governing their commercial relations…
Analyst: Apple Music will average 40% annual growth over the next three years
Apple, the world’s largest company by market value now has more than 40 million paid subscribers…
Apple needs to reconsider its HomePod strategy
Apple may sell only 2 million–2.5 million HomePods over the entire course of 2018…
Apple Music’s hip-hop programming head Carl Chery exiting for Spotify
Carl Chery, Apple Music’s head of artist curation overseeing hip-hop and R&B programming…
No, Apple is not pulling the plug on iTunes Store
Fresh rumours are circulating that Apple may be preparing to wind down iTunes music downloads…
Oliver Schusser named new Apple Music chief as service passes 40 million subscribers
Apple Music is thinking globally as the streaming service officially surpasses 40 million paid subscribers…
Apple Music hits 40 million paid subscribers milestone
Apple Music recently greatly expanded with a Music Videos section…
Spotify opens at $165.90 on first day of trading
Spotify officially opened at $165.90 this afternoon in its public debut…
Apple Music becoming a virtual record label?
Apple Music executive Jimmy Iovine says streaming services are too similar…
Jimmy Iovine plans exit from Apple
If you ask the question, ‘Did Apple need Beats?’ the answer is no…
Apple Music hits 38 million paid subscribers
Apple Inc’s streaming music service now has 38 million paid subscribers, up from 36 million in February…
Hey Apple, it’s time to drop the ‘Hey’ from ‘Hey Siri’
You don’t have to say “Hey Alexa,” so why do we still have to say “Hey Siri?”
There are nearly 50 million smart speaker users in the U.S.
There are now nearly 50 million smart speaker users in the U.S…
Why I’m thinking about getting an Apple HomePod
When I first saw Apple’s announcement of the HomePod…
Spotify files for direct listing of up to $1 billion; claims 71 million paying subscribers; lost $1.5 billion last year
Music streaming service Spotify filed for a direct listing of up to $1 billion…
Apple Music expands student membership pricing to 82 new countries
Apple Music is expanding its subscription music service to 82 new markets…
Apple Music poised to knock off Spotify
Apple is turning up the volume on Apple Music, the streaming subscription that comes loaded on its devices…
Apple’s HomePod is openly hostile to any hardware or service not made by Apple
The notion of Apple’s ‘walled garden’ ecosystem of products precedes even the iPhone…
Apple Music was always going to win
Apple Music is about to overtake Spotify as the most popular streaming music service in the United States…
Apple Music on track to overtake Spotify, become No. 1 streaming service in U.S. this summer
Apple is quietly gaining ground on Spotify in the world’s largest music-subscription market…
Spotify, Apple, YouTube lose as Copyright Royalty Board raises streaming music royalty rates
Songwriters will get a larger cut of revenue from streaming services after a court handed technology companies a big defeat…
Jimmy Iovine denies rumor that he’s leaving Apple in August
Jimmy Iovine shot down rumors that he plans to exit Apple in August…
As Spotify crosses 70 million paid subscribers, distant #2 Apple Music’s Jimmy Iovine reportedly to bow out
It’s now been over three years since Apple closed its $3 billion acquisition of Beats…
Apple Music and Spotify now account for the majority of music consumption in the UK
Industry figures that also show a continuing vinyl revival…
Spotify files for its IPO
Music streaming giant Spotify confidentially filed IPO documents with the SEC at the end of December…
Spotify hit with $1.6 billion lawsuit from music publisher
Spotify has been hit with a huge copyright lawsuit that alleges the music streaming company…
