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The Motley Fool
June 3, 2010
Adrian Rush |
Amazon Nibbles at Apple The leading online retailer makes a small gain on iTunes' dominance.   |
InternetNews
January 28, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Amazon Taking Its MP3 Store Global Beginning later this year, Amazon plans to roll out international versions of its DRM-free music store. |
InternetNews
April 3, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
MySpace Music Goes Mainstream MySpace announced its long-awaited joint music venture this morning, unveiling details about a far-ranging service it will offer in partnership with three of the four major record labels. |
InternetNews
January 11, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Sony BMG Opens DRM-Free Content to Amazon Sony BMG's move gives Amazon a new boost in its quest to upend iTunes, but where do the record labels' priorities' really lie? |
InternetNews
August 18, 2009 |
Apple Accounts for 25% of All Music Sales NPD Group finds iTunes gaining ground and looks for digital sales to pull close to even with CDs by end of 2010. |
The Motley Fool
August 31, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Amazon.com Cranks Up the Music Amazon, the country's leading online retailer, will launch its eagerly anticipated MP3 store in three weeks. The company will be selling songs in the MP3 format, free of digital rights management. Will it take a bite out of Apple? |
InternetNews
January 15, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Amazon, Pepsi Team For Super Bowl MP3 Giveaway Pepsi-Cola and Amazon have teamed up in a promotion to give away as many as 1 billion songs from Amazon MP3. |
The Motley Fool
January 28, 2008
Anders Bylund |
Amazon Gets Into World Music Music sales as we know them take another step toward obsolescence, as Amazon.com starts to expand its digital music store to international markets. |
InternetNews
December 3, 2007 |
Pressure Mounts on Record Labels to Offer MP3s New promotions, successful tests and retailer demands could spell the end of DRM-protected music. |
Home Theater
August 10, 2007
Mark Fleischmann |
Universal to Test No-DRM Downloads Universal Music Group, the world's largest music label, takes a decisive step away from Digital Rights Managed music, and moves closer to a more open DRM-free download retail environment. |
InternetNews
August 6, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Amazon Invests in iTunes Chase Amazon.com has contributed some money to the completion of Series A financing for AmieStreet.com, a digital music store with a demand-based pricing system "propelled by social networking." |
The Motley Fool
May 28, 2010
Anders Bylund |
Is Amazon.com the Next Apple? Amazon excels at the digital and physical sides of the new music-industry equation. |
Home Theater
April 10, 2009 |
iTunes Ditches DRM Apple will eliminate digital rights management from all songs sold through iTunes. |
The Motley Fool
August 10, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Apple Kills Another One Wal-Mart is reportedly nixing its digital-music store. |
InternetNews
December 27, 2007 |
Amazon Adds Warner Music to MP3 Downloads Amazon.com has signed on Warner Music Group to its music download service, which aims to compete with Apple's industry-dominating iTunes online store. |
InternetNews
May 16, 2007
Erin Joyce |
Amazon To Sell DRM-Free Music Amazon.com turned up the buzz meter in the digital music world today with news it plans to launch an MP3 digital music store without digital rights management restrictions on the songs. |
The Motley Fool
August 6, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Apple Rocks, As Usual Apple's iTunes is still the top dog in music sales. |
The Motley Fool
April 7, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Is Apple Being Drowned Out? Google or Amazon aren't going to overtake Apple in digital music anytime soon. However, as digital rights crater and variable pricing prompts comparison shopping, the iTunes ecosystem may not be as solid as it used to be. |
The Motley Fool
August 23, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
Wal-Mart's Dissonant Music iTunes doesn't have to worry about Wal-Mart, although heated competition is on the way. |
The Motley Fool
April 4, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
How Do You Like Those Apples, Sam? When it comes to music, Apple has now done the unthinkable: It has passed Wal-Mart. |
The Motley Fool
April 8, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Why'd You Do It, Amazon? Amazon.com matches Apple's music price increase, unfortunately. |
InternetNews
July 2, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
Universal, Apple Set To Play Chicken The Universal Music Group, the largest of the four major record labels and a subsidiary of Vivendi SA, is reportedly trying to change the terms of its contract with Apple for selling digital music through the iTunes store. |
Home Theater
June 16, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
Google May Take on iTunes Store Google may be preparing a music service. |
The Motley Fool
October 17, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Apple Drops the Digital-Music Shackles Apple lowers the price of its unrestricted song files. If a customer can buy a DRM-protected track on iTunes at $0.99 a pop, or pick up a DRM-free version at a sonically superior bitrate, it's an easy choice. |
The Motley Fool
September 26, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Amazon 2, Apple 0 Amazon's new MP3 store aims for Apple's jugular. Anyone who believes that Apple will maintain its gargantuan share of the digital-music world in a year or two has been resting on the mute button for too long. |
The Motley Fool
April 16, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Is Amazon Taking a Bite Out of Apple? Amazon is making headway in digital music, but it will be a long time before Apple needs to worry. |
The Motley Fool
June 18, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Amazon Catches a Coldplay Marking down Coldplay is Amazon's trap for digital-music lovers. |
InternetNews
September 25, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Amazon Now Hawks MP3s, Targeting iPod Crowd Amazon's new MP3 music store features what the company characteristically calls "Earth's biggest selection" - over 2 million songs from more than 180,000 artists, represented by over 20,000 major and independent labels. |
PC World
June 2004 |
Wal-Mart Does MP3s Wal-Mart's music downloads are cheaper than those from ITunes. |
The Motley Fool
July 16, 2010
Daneil Bailey |
Would You Pay $10 for Apple's iTunes -- Per Month? Will iTunes become a "cloud service"? |
The Motley Fool
March 19, 2009
Anders Bylund |
iTunes Is Obsolete iTunes is killing the old CD hegemony. But the next big thing is moving up fast, and it will make iTunes just as obsolete. |
BusinessWeek
March 29, 2004
Larry Armstrong |
E-Tune Shopping With downloading now legit, online music stores have similar catalogs. It's the extras that set them apart. |
The Motley Fool
August 22, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Before You Bite Into That Apple ... Investors, no one is building a better mousetrap than Apple, but a DRM-free world will be loaded with cheaper knock-off mousetraps. With the world's largest retailer and the country's most popular e-tailer nibbling on the cheese, something's going to snap. |
The Motley Fool
March 4, 2010
Anders Bylund |
Apple Puts the Thumbscrews On Amazon Amazon found a way to steal sales from Apple's iTunes store -- so Cupertino is fighting back with dirty tricks of its own. |
InternetNews
August 10, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Best Buy, Universal Join DRM-Free Jam Universal Music Group will make some of its music available without digital rights management software. |
InternetNews
July 27, 2009 |
Apple, Music Labels Planning New Album Format? Digital music leader Apple is reportedly in talks with the four largest record labels to develop a new offering that aims to spur online album sales. |
The Motley Fool
December 5, 2007
Tim Beyers |
Amazon Gives Away a Billion Following the success of a 2004 team-up with Apple in which the pair gave away 100 million songs in 60 days, PepsiCo has inked a deal with Amazon to give away 1 billion songs. |
The Motley Fool
December 27, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Warner Warms to Amazon Warner Music Group becomes the latest big studio to sell DRM-free tunes through Amazon.com. |
The Motley Fool
May 17, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Rock On, Amazon Amazon has made it official, announcing that it will launch a digital music service later this year. Unlike most existing storefronts that sell format-protected tunes, Amazon's tracks will be pure MP3 files. |
The Motley Fool
February 14, 2007
Nathan Alderman |
The Serpent in Apple's Garden Now that Apple's moving from music into movies and TV, has the Mac maker begun to jeopardize its success by aligning itself more with the content-creating industry heavyweights -- at the risk of alienating the customers responsible for its current download dominance. |
The Motley Fool
January 16, 2004
Rex Moore |
Illegal Music Downloads Uptick After months in decline, file sharing is on the rise again. |
Home Theater
August 17, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
$3.99 Download Makes Arcade Fire #1 Amazon discount propels band to Billboard's top spot. Many consumers will buy downloads if the price is right. |
InternetNews
June 23, 2009
Kenneth Corbin |
Twitter a Boon for Digital Music Sales? New study finds Twitter users buy 77 percent more digital music than their non-tweeting counterparts. |
The Motley Fool
March 30, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Apple's Five-Finger Discount Albums are getting cheaper on iTunes if you bought a single. |
InternetNews
April 2, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
EMI, Apple Give DRM-Free Music a Go EMI today announced it will make its digital music catalog available to online retailers without digital rights management restrictions. |
InternetNews
December 28, 2007 |
Wal-Mart Nixes Movie Downloads Wal-Mart shut down its online video download service after Hewlett-Packard discontinued the technology that powered it. |
BusinessWeek
May 26, 2011
Stone & Fixmer |
Apple's Deals May Transform Digital Music Apple may unveil a cloud-based music service in June. The music labels, which need a new revenue stream, are signing on. |
HBS Working Knowledge
June 21, 2004
Sean Silverthorne |
Music Downloads: Pirates---or Customers? Internet music piracy not only doesn't hurt legitimate CD sales, it may even boost sales of some types of music. |
Knowledge@Wharton
July 2, 2003 |
Online Music Wings its Way to the Celestial Jukebox In a celestial jukebox, instead of downloading songs to a computer hard drive or burning them onto a CD, listeners log onto a site that streams the music directly to their computers for immediate listening. It's like having your own all-request FM channel. |
Home Theater
July 9, 2007 |
Universal Balks at iTunes Renewal Vivendi's Universal Music Group declined to renew its annual agreement with iTunes, selling content only "at will." |
