Apple’s track record with services is pretty awful, but it’s acquiring talent and its cost of streaming music customer acquisition will be much, much lower than anyone else’s. Spotify and Pandora… Read more »
The shift in consumer media consumption from fixed, dedicated platforms to open, IP-based platforms caused problems for both in the second quarter. The period also saw a courtroom showdown between Apple… Read more »
A new category of digital media has emerged in the living room: social TV. This relatively new concept can be defined as any application, website or software that allows viewers to… Read more »
AllThingsD hears that Apple will discontinue its Ping social network with a coming release of iTunes. When Apple introduced Ping, Om said it showed hints of the future of social commerce… Read more »
Lots of people think hot headphone company Beats Electronic is going to acquire MOG, the on-demand streaming music service. Handset manufacturer HTC has a big investment in Beats, so simple connect-the-dots… Read more »
On-demand streaming is only one part of a much broader transition taking place in the digital music industry: the shift from analog media business models to the age of digital consumption… Read more »
Industries like Internet search, genomics, climate research and business analytics are starting to create massive data sets — in the petabyte and exabyte range — that are requiring an entirely new… Read more »
Apple’s acquisition of Chomp might be aimed at addressing more than Apps Store search. It’s hard to imagine Apple buying a whole company to fix an indexing issue. Driven by the… Read more »
This report examines the U.S. digital music market’s key disruption vectors: the areas where large market shifts are occurring and where companies will position themselves to gain share and increase revenues… Read more »
Several web technology themes and trends were reinforced in the fourth quarter of 2011, including a handful of tech platform wannabes and the rumblings of a shakeout in social commerce. For… Read more »