digital-music

This past week, Apple unveiled a digital-music service that will allow users to remotely access their songs.

Pandora Raises IPO's Size Lynn Cowan 2011

The service is an effort by Apple to strengthen its dominance in the digital-music industry, making it difficult for Amazon.com Inc. to take customers and combat the rise of smartphones running Google Inc.'s Android software.

Apple Opens Locker for Songs Yukari Iwatani Kane 2011

Amazon launched a digital-music store in 2007 to challenge Apple Inc.'s iTunes store.

Amazon, CBS Reach Content-Licensing Deal Stu Woo 2011

Search company Baidu Inc., an Internet heavyweight that traditionally has relied entirely on ads, is investing in online travel and hopes to start a premium digital-music service.

China Dating Site Grooms New Plan Loretta Chao 2011

The deal comes as record labels have been increasingly willing to experiment with digital-music services in the face of worsening piracy around the world, including the U.S. launch this month of Spotify AB, a London-based company that offers licensed music-streaming services in limited quantities for free with advertising, and ad-free subscriptions for up to $9.99 a month.

Baidu, Record Labels in Deal Loretta Chao 2011

Much as cheap digital-music downloads have meant that fewer bands can earn a living from record-company deals, fewer literary authors will be able to support themselves as e-books win acceptance, publishers and agents say.

Authors Feel Pinch in Age of E-Books Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg 2010

Last month, the fund bought the largest stake in Orca Digital Inc., operator of Top100.cn, a digital-music company that works with Google Inc. to provide a free, advertising-supported music streaming and download service in China.

Shanghai Media Group's President Exits Loretta Chao 2011

Sony's move comes in response to the continuing U.S. economic malaise, which has weighed heavily on the nation's manufacturing sector, and reflects the decline of the music CD, which has been eclipsed by digital-music services like Apple Inc.'s iTunes store.

Sony to Close N.J. CD Plant Nat Worden 2011

He is the owner of his first professional basketball team, the Shanghai Sharks, and an investor in a digital-music site called Top100.cn.

Yao Ming Courts China's Wine Boom Jason Chow 2011

Amazon operates a California-based subsidiary that develops its Kindle electronic book-reader and its digital-music store.

Amazon Seeks Repeal of California Tax Measure Stu Woo 2011