With Twitter's new music service reportedly coming out sometime this weekend, it's time to consider if we really want to go to our Twitter friends to find new tunes.
The relationship between record labels and Apple has always had an "offer you can't refuse" tension. So as Apple looks to expand more robustly into streaming music, it's not surprising that labels are bristling — even if the "too low" per-song economics might actually be an increase.
With their television plans basically down the drain, Apple has started special negotiations with record companies to start a new online radio service that's designed to rival Pandora, the best service available right now.
Campaigns are using more and more sophisticated tactics to target voters. Case in point: One Pandora user got a pop-up asking if she would share her email with the Romney campaign.
Spotify just announced a free mobile radio app for iPOS devices, which has some tech watchers suggesting might mean trouble for rival music streamer Pandora, yet we can still think of one big reason to keep that Pandora in our rotation: Its algorithm.
Google is rolling out a new product, “Google Consumer Surveys,” that lets publishers monetize content through “microsurveys” created by companies that want to carry out inexpensive market research.
Streaming and social, the new feature is more limiting than competitors
A beloved European cloud music service enters the American market
The stock was trading well below the IPO peak of $23.75 on Thursday
The music streaming service started public trading at nearly $25 a share
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