Virgin Records enters the music download market Monday
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Long before Richard Branson dreamed of becoming the latest billionaire with a reality TV show, before he started his cell phone company, his airline and his record label, he sold music from the Virgin Record Shop on Oxford St.
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Virgin Electronics unveiled on Tuesday a digital audio player with a 5GB hard disk, in a bid to penetrate the market dominated by Apple Computer&#39;s iPod.
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Virgin Electronics announced Tuesday its own portable digital music player weighing less than the Apple iPod mini with an additional 1 gigabyte of storage space.
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LONDON - Virgin launches its rival to Apple&#39;s iTunes and Roxio&#39;s Napster in the US today, although consumers will get no break on price because the service charges the same 99 cents a song to download.
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Following the recent announcement that it will be terminating its online music store. Virgin announced yesterday that it will turn its mobile phone business public with an IPO.
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Amazon.com has inked a deal with Warner Music Group to offer WMG music downloads on the online retailer's music download service.
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Company hopes the $160 million purchase will make it a major player in the music market.
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The consumer electronics arm of the Virgin Group is introducing a new 5-gigabyte hard-disk portable music player, bringing a powerful brand name in music to the increasingly crowded product space. -The Associated Press
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Online music service Napster teams up with Virgin Radio to launch a music download chart.
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Sir Richard Branson has dabbled in everything from music to space tourism, and is now setting his sights on creating the ultimate online music store. Branson's Virgin Digital service capitalizes on the strength of the Virgin record label to offer customers a "virtual Virgin Megastore" stocked with over 1 million songs for download.
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Virgin Electronics, the consumer electronics arm of Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group, has announced an own brand digital music player.
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On Monday, Virgin Group subsidiary Virgin Digital launched an online store designed to leverage the name recognition of its brick-and-mortar Virgin Megastore while competing with a subscription-based model.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Amazon.com Inc. , the world's largest Internet retailer, began a digital-music download service to compete with Apple Inc.'s iTunes, selling restriction-free tracks from more than 20,000 record labels.
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A major US music download service launches a European store selling tracks without digital restrictions.
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InfoWorld - Virgin Group will shut down its online music subscription and download service in the United States and the United Kingdom next month, leaving one&#160;fewer competitor for Apple&#39;s iTunes Music Store.
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Virgin Group Ltd., owned by billionaire British entrepreneur Richard Branson, said it will begin selling a portable music player to compete with Apple Computer Inc.
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Virgin Group Ltd. on Monday launched its online music store, pitting the retailer best known for its music &quot;megastores&quot; with tech companies such as Apple Computer Inc.