Technology giants Apple, Google and Amazon are furiously manoeuvring for position in the online music business. ...
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Amazon.com said on Thursday that its MP3 library has 22 million songs available. ...
01:38 PM, Jan 18, 2013
New York: Grooveshark has been sued by the large record company EMI Group Ltd, which accused the popular digital music service of paying no royalties since entering a licensing agreement to stream music nearly three years ago. EMI, which brought the world such acts as the Beatles and Coldplay and is now being sold by Citigroup Inc, filed its complaint against Grooveshark's parent, Escape Media Group Inc, on Wednesday in...
08:26 PM, Jan 06, 2012
Los Angeles: In recent weeks, Apple, Google and Amazon.com have each launched the missing puzzle piece in their wireless mobile music systems. Apple enabled storage and delivery of your songs over the Internet through iTunes Match. Google started selling music digitally. Amazon shipped an electronic-books device, called the Kindle Fire, that does much more than books. With those additions, each system now lets you buy songs, store them on faraway...
10:25 AM, Nov 29, 2011
New York: Social media and mobile communications will be the two big targets for Google Inc when it unveils a new music store for users on Wednesday, according to four people familiar with its plans. But the giant web search company's new music partners have already labelled the service "unexciting." Music executives had been hoping for a more ground breaking, fully functional cloud-based service; but after licensing talks broke down...
09:00 AM, Nov 17, 2011
Los Angeles: Google unveiled its much-anticipated digital music store on Wednesday, opening a new front in its battle with Apple to provide services over mobile devices. For the first time, Google Inc. will sell songs on the Android Market, its online store for apps, movies and books. The service is available over the next few days to customers in the US, but it aims to roll it out eventually to...
08:36 AM, Nov 17, 2011
California: Google Inc is expected to unveil on Wednesday an online music download store featuring songs from three major music companies, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Sony Corp's Sony Music Entertainment, Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group and EMI Music are expected to have deals with Google in place in time for a Wednesday afternoon announcement in Los Angeles, the Journal reported. The Google Music...
08:40 AM, Nov 16, 2011
London: Global online music revenues are expected to rise by about 7 percent this year to $6.3 billion as digital services such as Spotify and iTunes gain momentum, technology research firm Gartner said on Tuesday. But sales of CDs, hurt by piracy as well as paid-for online distribution, will continue to decline faster than can be made up for by digital sales, as the music industry struggles to adapt to...
05:07 PM, Nov 09, 2011
New Delhi: Google Inc could launch a new online music service as early as Tuesday, which will be similar to a service recently started by Amazon.com Inc, The Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter. The Journal said Google is likely to announce the service at its annual Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco, adding that the service will operate in a testing mode initially and...
09:59 AM, May 10, 2011
Shanghai: China's Ministry of Culture will punish Baidu Inc for providing illegal music downloads, Xinhua, China's official news agency reported on Monday. The government will punish 14 websites that have provided illegal music downloads, including Baidu, China's top search engine. Xinhua reported that an official said the websites continued to provide that music despite repeated warnings not to. Details regarding the punishment were not released. Baidu could not be immediately...
03:59 PM, Apr 25, 2011
Shanghai: Baidu Inc, China's top search engine, will launch a licenced music search service in May, in a move to legitimise its current music search that critics say enables music piracy. Baidu will launch Baidu Ting sometime in May, said Kaiser Kuo, a Baidu spokesman told Reuters on Wednesday. The service will allow users to stream, download, create libraries of licenced music and will have a social-networking aspect. Music piracy...
04:44 PM, Apr 06, 2011
New Delhi: Google has launched its online music service in India that enables users to search for legal music streams and downloads. For its Indian music search service (http://www.google.co.in/music) Google has partnered with In.com, Saregama and Saavn. The three digital music providers, hold rights to hundreds of thousands of Indian tracks - ranging from old and new Bollywood hits to Indian classical music. The music search service currently indexes only...
05:59 PM, Oct 22, 2010
Bangalore: Google Inc plans to launch an online music service in India that would enable users to search for legal music streams and downloads, the Wall Street Journal said. Google would soon add a music feature in its search service, which will allow users in India to search for songs. The top search results would be from Google's partners, according to the Journal. The US web search giant will partner...
10:34 AM, Oct 22, 2010
