RealNetworks ends download 49c promo
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[Seattle | Reuters News Service, 10 September 2004] - RealNetworks is ending its 49c-per-song music download service but will keep the promotional prices in place for top 10 songs, the Internet media and software company said yesterday.
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Corrects paragraph 8 to say Infinity is part of CBS and no longer a division of Viacom
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Bluepulse mobile social network has ditched the download installation. The big switch to Web platform adds functionality for smartphone users, who were previously unable to join.
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RealNetworks will end its three-week &quot;Freedom of Choice&quot; online music promotion this week. Over 3 million songs were purchased during the sale, the company says.
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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.
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RealNetworks announced that it has sold 1 million songs in the week since beginning its half-price music promotion. Real dropped song pricing to 49-cents from 99-cents, in part to highlight its Harmony technology, which allows purchased songs to be played on over 70 digital media players including Apple's iPod. But Apple has chastised Real for what it calls "tactics and ethics of a hacker," and says future iPod software updates will likely break compatibility with Harmony.
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NEW YORK -- RealNetworks Inc. survived the dot-com collapse and an assault from Microsoft Corp. Now it&#39;s trying to remake itself into a provider of paid Internet content.
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RealNetworks finds a partner in Yahoo! Music.
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An old-fashioned price war is gearing up in the digital music download business, with RealNetworks (Quote, Chart) on the offensive. With rival Apple in its crosshairs, RealNetworks has slashed the price on songs sold from its RealPlayer store by 50 ...
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The company ended its temporary promotion that saw it slash the price of its downloadable songs to 49 cents. The company launched the promotion last month to compete with Apple&#39;s iTunes service, the market leader.
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Goodbye, $1.99 iTunes. Hello, free NBC rentals.
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TORONTO - One of the internet&#39;s most popular file-sharing websites has suddenly closed up shop, likely a high profile victim of the lawsuits launched last week against those operating servers using the BitTorrent network.
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RealNetworks seems to have had a very popular promotion in celebration of its new Harmony technology, which allows consumers to download songs bought at the RealPlayer Music Store and transfer them to popular portable devices, including iPods.
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Apple 1, Branson 0 Virgin has closed Virgin Digital, its Windows Media-based alternative to Apple's iTunes. It stopped selling one-off downloads on Friday, though subscribers will still have access to their collections until their next monthly payment is due.â¦
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The message against illegally copying CDs for uses such as in file-sharing over the Internet has widely sunk in, said the company in it&#39;s recent announcement to drop the Copy-Control program.
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RealNetworks survived the dot-com collapse and an assault from Microsoft. Now it's trying to remake itself into a provider of paid Internet content.
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RealNetworks launched round two in its heavyweight digital music match against Apple Computer, slashing the cost of its music downloads to take business away from Apple's iTunes download service. -washingtonpost.com