Last.fm strikes Sony music deal
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Social music site Last.fm signs a deal with the Sony BMG record label to offer its catalogue of music.
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The competition arrayed against Apple in the growing online music market is shifting. In a deal valued at US$160 million, Yahoo! announced today the acquisition of one-time Apple partner Musicmatch.
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RealNetworks is taking over Yahooâs music subscription service. It hopes that as one of the last paid services standing it will better be able to promote the concept.
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Sony's three-year effort to beat Apple Inc.'s iTunes Music Store is over. The company will shutter its Connect music store and adopt Windows Media DRM.
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In what may later be recorded as a milestone development in the music industry, CBS-owned Last.fm has reached a deal with record labels enabling it to stream music of the listener's choice, from its entire library.
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Sony is broadening support for the MP3 file format in its portable music player range. It will introduce a new hard disk-based MP3 player in December, and will produce
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The Sony Corporation today agreed to buy the Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and its valuable film library after rival Time Warner withdrew from the bidding.
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A free music service partly funded by adverts has been launched by social music site Last.fm
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Electronics giant Sony has reversed its position on the formats playable by its range of digital music players. The company has announced its new devices will now be able to play music tracks in the MP3 format
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Sony Ericsson is the latest company to throw its hat into the rapidly expanding ring of digital music providers. What this cell phone provider will offer is Sony's expansive arsenal of artists, whose songs and videos will be available in full-length.
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Yahoo, world&#39;s number one website, announced its decision to purchase MusicMatch today for $160 million in cash. With this step, Yahoo hopes to attract more music listerners to its website.
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Music publishers and U.S. commercial  radio station owners said on Monday they had agreed to a new  $1.7 billion deal to cover licensing rights for music played  over radio airwaves or via radio station Web sites.
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$160m cash purchase to propel digital music market entry
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One of the big four record labels, which just this week was part of a landmark deal for MP3 access through Last.fm, announced earlier it is suing a completely different firm that offers similar access though without any kind of compensation plan.
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The world's largest mobile phone maker, Nokia, and software giant Microsoft struck a deal on Monday to make it easier for consumers to buy digital music online and play it back on their handsets.
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Sony Corp. announced Tuesday a new 20 gigabyte digital music player with MP3 support that will be available in Great Britain and Japan before Christmas and elsewhere in Europe in early 2005.
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Media & professional: After last week's CBS buyout, Last.fm's founders are the first British Web 2.0 millionaires, writes Jemima Kiss.