Big names sign up to iTunes rival
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Record labels including Universal and SonyBMG have begun selling music through a new download service.
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SEATTLE -- Microsoft Corp.'s effort to compete against Apple's iPod juggernaut will focus on the idea that people want to be able to easily share music with friends and others.
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In a breakthrough agreement, another major movie studio will add its feature films to the iTunes lineup, but this time under unusual and potentially groundbreaking terms.
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Bebo Inc.&#39;s British and Irish users  will be able to buy songs from Apple Inc.&#39;s iTunes music store  while they are still on the artist&#39;s profile at the social  networking site, according to an agreement announced on  Wednesday.
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Microsoft&#39;s WMA, Apple&#39;s ACC, Sony&#39;s Altrac and others -- compete in a variety of digital music devices, support for MP3 is becoming a required ingredient for any successful portable player.
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Online retailer Play.com launches a music download service that aims to take on market leader iTunes.
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Chris Gorog is convinced people won&#39;t continue to pay $1 a song for online music. By Evan Agostini, Getty Images. That is despite Apple&#39;s (AAPL) record string
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TORONTO (CP) -- Canadian music lovers who&#39;ve been itching to get into the ITunes online music store will have the chance next month.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - The next wave of iPod competitors is  coming.
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iTunes signs on PayPal, just in time for the holidays.
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Apple  is teaming up with  Coca-Cola  in Europe to give away about 70 million songs  on its market-leading iTunes Music Store -- more than a third  of the total number of songs it has sold there to date.
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The online retailer said over the weekend that it would begin to roll out its music store worldwide during this year in an effort to more broadly compete with market-leader iTunes.
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CHAMONIX, France  - A start-up co-founded by famed  Norwegian hacker "DVD Jon" is on Tuesday introducing a service  that enables users to copy and use copy-protected Apple  Inc iTunes songs on many popular non-Apple devices.
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Far from soothing the savage breast, music is driving some of the world&#39;s largest companies into a frenzy of competition. At stake is participation in, if not command of, a multibillion-dollar
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By MARK PRIGG  A SERVICE for downloading songs on to mobile phones that experts say could rival that of Apple's iTunes Music Store was launched today.
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Universal has signed a handful of artists to a digital-only record label. Starting Tuesday, it will release songs through online services like iTunes.
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Handset-to-handset fighting Whenever a single monolithic company has launched against the globe spanning iTunes, Apple has been able to move the goalposts and push further and further towards a monopolistic market share of online music, but this week a genuine challenge has emerged, one that we are certain will dent the success of Apple, and we suspect that it will be reflected in the companyâs share price before too long.â¦