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Fast Company John Paul Titlow	Report: The FTC Is Probing Apple's Communications With Record Labels The Federal Trade Commission is reportedly probing Apple's approach to securing streaming rights from record labels.
Fast Company David Lumb	The Big Way Apple's Upcoming Streaming Music Service Will Differ From Spotify Unlike the popular streaming music service Spotify, Apple's product will not include a free tier.
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Fast Company John Paul Titlow	Just In Time: Spotify Inks Music Deal With Starbucks Under the new deal, Spotify will power the music that plays in 7,000 of Starbucks retail locations in the U.S.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Apple Music Exec Ian Rogers Steps Down The former Beats Music CEO was instrumental in developing Apple Music's Beats 1 radio station and helping the company move into the Spotify-dominated streaming music market.
Fast Company John Paul Titlow	Jay Z Just Bought A Spotify Competitor Through his Project Panther business entity, the hip-hop superstar and business mogul acquired Aspiro, a Swedish music streaming company that specializes in high-fidelity digital audio.
Fast Company Rose Pastore	Spotify Shows Off Latest User Numbers In Response To Apple Music Spotify revealed its latest user figures: 20 million paying subscribers out of 75 million active users, an increase from the 15 million paying customers and 60 million users reported in January.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Beats Music Is Shutting Down On November 30 Apple is formally announcing that Beats Music is shutting down on November 30; the service's mobile apps will stop working at that time.
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The Motley Fool July 14, 2011 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Spotify Won't Kill Pandora or Sirius XM Spotify is here, but we may not care.
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Fast Company November 2013 Josh Dean	Let A Billion Streams Bloom Sweden used to be a global leader in music piracy. Today more than a third of all Swedes use Spotify, which now allows unlimited access to some 25 million songs. Spotify cofounder Daniel Ek has lots of competition.
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Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	No, You Won't Be Listening To Taylor Swift's "1989" On Apple Music BuzzFeed News reports that the pop queen has withheld the best-selling album from Apple's upcoming music streaming platform.
The Motley Fool August 24, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Rhapsody Keeps It Real -- for Paying Subscribers RealNetworks is submitting its on-demand streaming iPhone app so it can undergo Apple's notorious review process.
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The Motley Fool July 11, 2011 Jordan DiPietro	Roundtable: How You Should Invest in the Crowded Music Industry Three Motley Fool experts weigh in on the increasingly complicated musical landscape.
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PC World March 2005 Eric Hellweg	Music Unlimited Subscription services give you legal access to the largest digital music collections through the Internet. And new options are making them more tempting.
Home Theater October 27, 2008	Lala Offers Two Ways to Buy Music Downloads and streaming are nothing new. But lala.com offers both with an unusual angle on streaming.
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Fast Company David Lumb	Oyster, The "Spotify For Books," Is Taking On Amazon With E-Book Sales On Wednesday, Oyster announced it is heading into the general e-book sales market. This pits it against the e-book titans Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Apple.
Fast Company Tyler Hayes	From Drake To Hanson, Spotify's New Tool Connects Incompatible Musical Tastes The Valentine's Day theme of the app is a little corny, but Sweet Spot can still serve as a powerful playlist tool, and a nifty demonstration of the algorithms and analysis beneath the company's vast music library.
Fast Company September 2014 J.J. McCorvey	Why Does Apple Need Beats? It's All About The Music For this piece of Apple's strategy, success will likely depend on one man: Beats CEO Jimmy Iovine, who cofounded the company in 2006 with the rapper Dr. Dre.
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Popular Mechanics January 2007 Glenn Derene	Your Own Digital DJ: Next-Gen Internet Radio Reviews Internet radio services have evolved, with streaming music channels offering more audio diversity than your iTunes library could dream of. We rate three of the top competitors: Pandora, Yahoo LAUNCHcast, and Audiobaba.
Fast Company John Paul Titlow	Pandora's "Serial" Deal Is Great News For Podcast Nerds And Internet Radio It seems like such a no-brainer, it's hard to believe it didn't happen five years ago: Internet radio service Pandora is moving into podcasts.
The Motley Fool September 12, 2011 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Pandora Comes Under Attack The Pandora wannabes are closing in hard on the busted IPO.
The Motley Fool January 11, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Music for the Masses Sony, the fourth and final major music label to offer downloadable tunes in the unshackled MP3 format, will be available in the virtual aisles of Amazon.com later this month.
Popular Mechanics September 16, 2008 Glenn Derene	Is the Music Industry Trying to Kill Modern Internet Radio? Why the creator of Pandora might have to shut down and whether Apple or Microsoft will have to bail out the Web's favorite personalized music service, even as they unveil their own.
Home Theater May 26, 2009	$5 Napster Subscription Is Bargain Napster may soon become the world's cheapest legitimate music subscription service, with a new plan that asks consumers for a mere $5/month for five free tracks and a whole lot of streaming.
The Motley Fool December 9, 2011 Evan Niu	Pandora Is in Trouble Spotify Radio takes aim at Pandora.
The Motley Fool June 26, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	The Day Internet Radio Died Several Internet radio providers are going silent today to protest pending royalty rate hikes that may put many of them out of business.
Fast Company Tyler Hayes	In Lieu Of Royalties, Music Apps Are Feeding Starving Musicians With Data More and more streaming music services aren't just serving consumers audio, they're also becoming data companies serving up information to artists and rights holders.
PC Magazine November 29, 2006 Rick Broida	Buying Guide: Online Music Services Two thousand six may well be remembered as the year music subscription services went platinum.
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PC Magazine May 28, 2009 Jamie Lendino	Napster (Spring 2009) Napster's latest redesign is its best one yet, with a compelling unlimited music streaming offer for just $5 per month.
PC Magazine May 2, 2007 Heather Eng	Dead Air in Cyberspace Does the recent hike in the royalty fees for Internet radio mean fair pay for artists or the death knell for webcasters?
BusinessWeek August 15, 2005 Jon Fine	Late to the Download Dance Hear the song, buy the song -- downloaded through the station's Web site. Too bad radio didn't do this sooner. More than 100 U.S. stations are expected sell music this way by fall.
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The Motley Fool May 24, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Pandora Goes Out of the Box The music discovery service branches out from its Internet radio roots. The popular website allows its 6.9 million users to unearth new music by letting it know songs and artists that they already like.
PC Magazine February 25, 2009 Jamie Lendino	Amazon MP3 (Winter 2009) Amazon's online music sells unrestricted music that's high quality, compatible with almost any player, and often cheaper than what it would cost on iTunes... iLike... Lala...
BusinessWeek June 10, 2010 Grover & Satariano	Spotify: Why Europe's Hit Music Site Isn't Playing the U.S. The music majors are pressing a hot European startup to dump its free service as a condition for licensing their tunes for use in the U.S.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Apple Music Has 11 Million Free Subscribers Apple executives say that 11 million subscribers have signed up for Apple Music's free trial, USA Today reported Thursday. The streaming music service launched just over a month ago on June 30, and charges users $10 per month.
PC Magazine October 29, 2003	Online Music Stores: Music to Your Ears? As Apple iTunes Music Store for the Mac showed, users wanted to download as much or as little as they liked and pay only for what they bought. Now that the winning formula has been hit upon, it's rapidly being improved.