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 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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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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Sony BMG Music Entertainment, the last major music label holding out against selling music online without copy protection, relented Thursday and announced Amazon.com Inc.'s digital music store will carry songs by its artists.
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Warner Music Group on Tuesday said it had signed a deal to allow its entire catalog to be played on fast-growing music social network service Last.fm, an innovative site that links music fans to new and old hits.
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Sony BMG - aka &#39;Bony&#39; - the merged music label is in talks with Grokster, the P2P software company has confirmed. Negotiations are believed to be focused on the development of a new, label-friendly P2P network.
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Sony has released the first of its digital audio players to support the popular MP3 format, marking a significant shift in its music strategy.
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Sony's first digital audio players to support MP3 files have been released in Europe in a significant change in strategy.
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With its new Walkman music player, Sony has broken with its tradition of promoting its own proprietary formats. The NW-HD3 will let users import and export tracks in the
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EMI and Sony BMG have reached a deal to get more music and other products distributed using the Internet in the US and Canada. The cooperation deal covers new DualDisc products, ring tones
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STRANGE. THE DAY after Sony Ericsson announces it has done a deal with the Financial Times (FT) to offer content via its portal, Nokia says it is reigning back its own portal, Club Nokia.
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IN A major strategic reversal, Sony plans to add support for MP3 music files to some of its portable music players. The shift to support the widely used MP3 music format would end Sony&#39;s long-standing insistence on its proprietary Atrac format.
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LONDON - Yahoo! is joining the music-download arena with the $160m acquistion of Musicmatch, which sees it playing catch-up with established competitors such as Apple&#39;s iTunes, Coca-Cola&#39;s MyCokeMusic and MSN Music.
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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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The electronics giant will finally support the MP3 format. Is it too little, too late?
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By Bernhard Warner LONDON  - Consumer electronics giant Sony Corp. said on Thursday it is mulling a major strategic shift to make digital music devices that play MP3 song files.