Topic - music

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Best Buy Grabs Napster for $121M

Shares of music-sharing pioneer gain almost 90 percent after falling into the arms of electronics retailer.
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Verizon Wireless, Rhapsody Make Mobile Music

After a number of spectacular failures is mobile music finally ready for the mass market?
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Report: Apple Killed Music Industry

Apple's iPod as standard bearer of incompatibilities is partly responsible for the music industry’s digital implosion, researcher says.
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Universal, Qualcomm Make Mobile Music

The world’s largest music label takes mobile matters into its own hands, bypassing the carriers and selling ring tones direct to consumers.
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Napster Ready for iTunes Rumble

Music service says its DRM-free MP3 store will trigger a massive exodus of iTunes users to Napster, but expert says Apple should worry more about Nokia.
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Social Music Site WeMix Sounds Off

Site blends social networking, music, star power, and record making in an attempt to score in crowded online music market.
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Atlantic Records Inks Mobile Deal with Kadoink

Faced with declining CD sales music label attempts to tap the mobile market via startup. The two will promote singer Jason Mraz via SMS.
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Google Eyes Baidu in China Music Launch

Search king plans to enter the online music market in China for the first time, a move that steps up its battle with Baidu.com in music downloads.
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Music Bigs Sue China's Baidu

Universal, Sony BMG, and Warner file suit against China's No.1 search engine over music downloads.
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TechSpin: The Downloading Battle Heats Up

The music industry’s zeal to punish file sharing runs up against a European court’s concerns about privacy.
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U2 Manager Blasts Internet Providers

Rock band manager urges ISPs and governments to disconnect those involved in illegal downloading.
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Global Music Sales Dropped 10 Percent in 2007

Fast growth of digital sales can't match even faster decline in CDs purchased.
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MySpace Goes Access Hollywood

Social networking site premieres a portal for celebrities and fans to chat about everything, but will the site be overpowered by the celebrity brand?
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Amazon, Warner Rock MP3s

Warner Music Group becomes one of the last of the major labels to give in amid an industry slowly caving on digital restrictions.
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Kadoink Links Social Nets and Cell Phones

The much-ballyhooed marriage between cell phone and social network has so far been a bust. Can startup Kadoink fuse the two and bring some life back to the dying music industry?
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Microsoft Snares Musiwave for $46M

Acquisition of digital music store maker gives software behemoth ammunition in coming battle against Apple and Google on the wireless battlefield.
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Microsoft: Musiwave, New Zune Tune

Challenging Apple’s iPod franchise, software giant unveils new Zune models and holds talks to acquire builder of music stores for mobile carriers.
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Nokia Internet Push Not Rocking Music, Gaming

No. 1 cell phone maker's move into Internet operations faces headwinds as the cell phone maker postpones the start of its gaming service due to software testing delays and Warner pulls songs from Nokia's music shop.
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MySpace Turns to Zazzle for Music Souvenirs

The social-networking behemoth and the souvenir startup hope to cash in on the marriage between music and memorabilia in merchandising deal that links the two.
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Napster Tunes Up iTunes-like Release

Digital music download pioneer relaunches a new web-based version of its service with a model similar to Apple's iTunes.
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