Posts Tagged ‘music labels

Well, it’s finally here. After two years of delay and a fresh $100 million round of funding, European music streaming service Spotify launched in the United States yesterday, much to the delight of music geeks, a handful of celebrities and pretty much everyone on Twitter. In addition to a whole lot of excitement, Spotify has [...]

The launch of Apple’s much anticipated streaming music service is rapidly approaching. There have been a lot of rumors flying around about iCloud — as it could be named — so we thought it would be prudent to gather them all together. The cloud-based music race has been accelerating in the last few months, with [...]

On Tuesday, Apple made the unusual decision to pre-announce its software lineup for next week’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which includes its long-rumored cloud-based services offering, iCloud. The Wall Street Journal has reported additional information on the cloud service, including the status of Apple’s agreements with major music labels. iCloud, which Steve Jobs is expected [...]

Apple has reportedly reached agreements with three of the four major music labels, and is close to reaching one with Universal – the fourth. Bloomberg BusinessWeek cites “people with knowledge of these deals” as the source of this information, and reports that new cloud plans could be unveiled at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference next month. [...]

This post is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark as a new part of the Spark of Genius series that focuses on a new and innovative startup each day. Every Thursday, the program focuses on startups within the BizSpark program and what they’re doing to grow. Working against the notion that most online music startups are [...]


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