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You know how Apple makes its presence felt at CES by not being there? Well,… Read more »
Apple’s updated digital music strategy will reverse commitments to desktop software and ownership of music files. Here are five ways its acquisition and integration of Lala reflect a paradigm shift in… Read more »
Lala land. Apple confirmed Sunday that it has acquired cloud-based music streaming service Lala. No price was disclosed, but talks between the companies reportedly began after Lala’s founders concluded their prospects… Read more »
Apple is reportedly on the verge of acquiring streaming music site Lala.com, known for its 10-cent streaming songs and digital music locker service. Terms aren’t being disclosed, but the report implies… Read more »
Speculation arose this past week that News Corp.-owned (s NWS) MySpace Music is considering moving to a paid model, as the cost of free streaming is making its current model unsustainable… Read more »
Want proof that DRM drives people mad? Check out Media Rights Technology, a Silicon Valley provider of “content management” services. In 2007, the company sent cease-and-desist letters to Microsoft, Adobe, RealNetworks… Read more »
French startup Deezer, a venture-backed streaming music provider that competes directly with much-discussed Spotify in Europe, today announced a two-tiered premium service model intended to extract revenue from power users. The… Read more »
The theory that mobile applications will boost interest in music subscriptions has its first test subject in RealNetworks’ (s RNWK) Rhapsody, which released an iPhone (s appl) app in early September… Read more »
Updated to note Imeem: Google (s GOOG) will soon launch a search product dubbed “OneBox” that will better organize results around music artists and provide music streams from Lala.com, MySpace-owned iLike.com… Read more »
Rhapsody, the music subscription service, says its free iPhone application has been downloaded more than 330,000 times since its launch Sept. 9, making it the No. 2 music app in the… Read more »