Real slashes song prices in online music battle
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In a move likely to step up the digital music dispute between RealNetworks Inc. and Apple Computer Inc., Real slashed prices at its online music store on Tuesday, offering songs and albums for a limited time at nearly half of what Apple charges at its ...
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Selling songs over the Internet in Western Europe will explode to a 3.5 billion euros a year market by 2009, a new survey found on Tuesday.
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Record labels are demanding such a large cut from online music sales that several of existing online music stores will eventually be forced to go under, The Independent cautions today.
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Real's recent marketing campaign purporting to promote choice in digital music fails to rally music fans. Instead, the blitz provokes nasty comments from Apple users and cries of hypocrisy from critics. By Katie Dean.
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A price war in the online music market began yesterday when RealNetworks began an aggressive campaign to challenge industry leader Apple.
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RealNetworks has kicked off what it claims is the biggest online music sale in history. For a limited time, every song in the firm&#39;s RealPlayer Music Store can be downloaded for 49 cents, with most albums available for $4.99.
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RealNetworks Inc. is ending a temporary promotion that slashed the price of its downloadable songs to 49 cents, but bargain hunters will still be able to find some deals at its online music store.
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Major labels have begun demanding a cut of concert earnings or T-shirt, ring tone and merchandise revenue from new artists seeking record contracts.
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RealNetworks has slashed the price for downloading music taking the online music market competition a step further.
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Blog: Large Webcasters and the music industry are butting heads over a compromise to heightened fees that would require Net radio operators to implement anti-streamripping technology.
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RealNetworks Inc., which sells songs over the Web, said Apple Computer Inc. has altered the software for some of its market-leading iPod digital music players so that songs purchased from RealNetworks won&#39;t play.
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The new price of 99 cents per song sold online without copy protection puts Appleâs iTunes store closer in line with its rivals.
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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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Small Internet radio stations were offered a break yesterday, when a recording industry group offered to reduce the royalties it collects for music played online.
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Blog: New letter to Congress from Yahoo, RealNetworks, Pandora and Live365 execs urges politicos to reconsider new rules they argue would require not only higher royalty rates on songs, but more than $1 billion in annual "administrative" fees.
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RealNetworks is sending a real message to Apple, their largest competitor in the online music market. On Tuesday, RealNetworks announced that it was launching the biggest music sale in history, offering single music downloads for just 49 cents, and most ...
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RealNetworks this week said the three week cut rate promotion on its online music store garnered sales of more than three million songs.