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Apple debuts huge advertisement for Beats 1 in Times Square
Apple’s Beats 1 is worldwide and always on…
Apple Music signup screens appear in iOS 8.4 beta ahead of June 30 launch
Users of the latest iOS 8.4 public beta are encountering a signup prompt…
What happens to your $9.99/mo. Apple Music membership fee
You don’t have to pay anything to try Apple’s new streaming music service…
Does Apple Music’s June 30th launch mark the beginning of the end for Spotify?
Spotify has 75M active users and, despite doubts in many quarters…
Apple Music’s secret weapon that almost no one’s talking about
The WWDC keynote is finally behind us and Apple Music…
Spotify founder: Oh ok, we don’t need to be number one in music streaming
Playing down the threat to his business from the world’s most valuable company…
Why Apple Music will gut and publicly execute Spotify
Just one day post-WWDC15, Spotify closed a Series G round worth $526 million…
Beats 1: Apple’s strangest WWDC announcement, and why it sort of makes sense
Apple is launching a radio station…
Jimmy Iovine and Eddy Cue: Apple Music gunning for Spotify, YouTube, and terrestrial radio
Apple isn’t just gunning for Spotify with its new Apple Music streaming service…
Apple’s revolutionary Apple Music just might prove its skeptics wrong
A number of features shown that differentiate Apple Music from the competition…
Apple unveils revolutionary Apple Music service
Apple today unveiled Apple Music, a single, intuitive app that combines the best ways to enjoy music…
Apple plans big push for Apple Music subscriptions
At its Worldwide Developers Conference starting Monday, Apple is expected…
Apple’s ambitious goal: Sign up 100 million Apple Music subscribers
Apple is going to save the music industry – again…
Why Jay-Z’s Tidal music venture is a complete disaster
Jay Z unveiled Tidal at a press conference in late March…
Apple is a ‘huge disruptive monster’ says BBC’s Radio 1 music chief
Apple is a ‘huge disruptive monster’ coming down the hill according to BBC Radio 1’s…
Jay-Z’s Tidal music service is already a spectacular flop
The Tidal the app has crashed out of the top 700…
Why Jay-Z’s ‘Tidal’ music subscription service doesn’t matter
Yesterday, musician Jay-Z and a number of other millionaire musicians…
Apple Inc., the record label?
When Apple’s streaming music service comes out later this year…
iTunes Music: New Beats service will continue Apple’s reign as the king of digital music
Apple doesn’t lag behind, especially when it comes to music…
Apple’s Beats-based music service plans revealed, including Apple’s first Android app
Six months after buying the subscription music service Beats Music…
Five ways Apple can improve Apple TV right now
Apple TV is perhaps one of the most under-appreciated devices Apple has ever made…
Apple targets big data as it acquires Semetric, makers of Musicmetric
The broader Semetric platform tracks billions of data points…
Apple buys Semetric
Apple has been beefing up its music analytics in the run-up to the expected launch of…
What happens to songs that zero people listen to on Spotify?
Nearly 20 percent of the tracks on Spotify — some 4 million songs — have never been played…
Technology is destroying the music industry, which is great news for the next Taylor Swift
It wasn’t the internet that killed the music industry…
Apple is going to put the hurt on Pandora
Apple will soon have a viable and complete streaming service…
Analyst: Apple iTunes Radio hurting Pandora’s ability to attract new listeners
Pandora’s shares fell 13 percent…
Apple rebuilding Beats Music, plans to relaunch it as part of iTunes in 2015
Apple is rebuilding Beats Music and plans to relaunch it next year as part of iTunes…
Apple adds iTunes Festival London app to Apple TV
Shortly after adding 19 more acts to the line-up for the iTunes Festival…
Apple promos Beats Music app via email to iTunes customers
Apple has begun pushing the Beats Music streaming service via email…
Google eyes music ad market vs. Apple’s iTunes Radio, Pandora
With Google’s acquisition of music-streaming service Songza…
Apple’s Beats acquisition may prove to be a huge money maker
Apple’s $3 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics isn’t a sexy acquisition…
Apple insiders: Arrogant Apple managers are the reasons why iTunes Radio sucks, Ping failed, and Apple had to buy Beats
The development of iTunes Radio suffered from a shortsighted strategy…
Apple’s Beats buy is two-sided for music streaming rivals
Observers believe Apple’s purchase of Beats could have both positive and negative effects
Jim Cramer: Apple skeptics getting Tim Cook wrong
Cramer found that skeptics surfaced from every corner of the market…
Did Apple save Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine just in time?
Nobody published as detailed — or as nasty — a look at Apple’s newest acquisition…
Apple paying under $500 million for Beats Music streaming service
Apple Inc. is paying slightly less than $500 million for the Beats Music…
Jimmy Iovine: Apple’s new music impresario
Apple’s new music impresario, Jimmy Iovine, didn’t start out…
Tim Cook: Beats acquisition a ‘killer’ deal for Apple
Apple CEO Tim Cook looked like he wanted to dance…
Did Tim Cook just pay $3 billion for his successor, Jimmy Iovine?
Will Iovine replace Cook like Jobs replaced Amelio?
Steven Levy: With Beats Music service, Apple’s Tim Cook goes against the wisdom of Steve Jobs
This is a very un-Apple-like acquisition…