Penguin Audio Ends EMusic Deal
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Penguin Audio, one of five publishers to sign with eMusic.com, a rival of Appleâs iTunes, has bailed out, withdrawing 150 titles over concerns about digital piracy.
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Media group Bertelsmann agrees to sell its BMG Music Publishing to Vivendi's Universal Music for 1.63bn euros.
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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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The move is a blow to Apple's iTunes Store, which has persuaded only EMI and a handful of independent labels to let it offer their tracks in the DRM-free iTunes Plus format it launched in May.
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eMusic is launching a revamped music download service that carries only music from independent labels.
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Music fans in the UK have reason to celebrate. Apple announced it will lower the prices it charges for music on its UK iTunes Store within six months. The decision marks the end of a European Commission antitrust probe into Apple's pricing practices.
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A music publishing group with the rights to songs by Robbie Williams and Coldplay agreed to be taken over in a pounds 1bn deal yesterday.
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NEW YORK - EMC will announce today that it has closed on the acquisition of Dantz Development, a privately held company that it hopes will give it a toehold in the $600 million spent by small to mid-size companies on data backup and recovery software.
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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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iTuneski RIP, but more where that came from AllofMP3.com, the UK's second most popular source for music downloads after iTunes, has been shut down after diplomatic pressure was piled on Russian authorities.â¦
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Media & professional: Emap agreed to sell half of its music TV business to Channel 4 yesterday.
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FIRST video killed the radio star. Now it looks like the video recorder&#39;s days could be numbered too, after Britain&#39;s biggest electrical retailer announced an end to sales of the household gadget.
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The search provider has decided to end its music service, opting instead to send its business to Real.
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I saw an ad in yesterday's NY Times that offered the complete New Yorker magazine archive, including all the cartoons and ads, going back to 1920-something for a bit more than the hard disk would cost. The ad was from J&R, the company that makes the product is Pexagon. $149. Sounds like there might be DRM. I asked for something like this from the music business. A hundred gigs of popular music for $500, all pre-installed on the disk without DRM.  Someone at the New Yorker had this idea too? It's a good one. Bulk content for collector types. Another source of revenue. I want to run my own personal radio station, so having every song of a certain genre or from a certain period makes the diff.
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Its proprietary audio technology was a flop, says Sony, as it announces at a Berlin consumer electronics trade fair it will shutter its Connect digital music store and open its portable media players to other formats.
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Online music company eMusic on Tuesday said it was revamping its service to provide commentary and reviews to complement its catalog of more than 500,000 tracks from independent labels.
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Blog: Following its Apple and Amazon deals, the U.K.-based record label inks a deal with a company that provides white-label digital music stores to retailers.