Chasing the post-download digital music opportunity, veteran services are seeking scale to fight dominant newcomers, whilst strangers from outside the space are launching their own new services with mixed success.

This is the last in a series of posts that highlighted key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sectors we cover most, from publishing to legal, and from mobile to advertising. Not too long ago, TV Everywhere was a bold concept being evangelized by Time Warner…

Digital music is now mainstream, thanks in part to the MP3. Will the e-book market be next to produce a one-size-fits-all format—a format that is universally readable, freely sharable, and with a reasonably good reproduction quality? The answer to this question, for at least in the foreseeable future, is: not…

It’s taken ten years, and a last leg up by way of an acquisition of a competitor, but Rhapsody says that it has finally reached one million subscribers for its music services in the U.S.

Apple’s and Android’s stronghold on the U.S. smartphone market has been the case for many quarters already, and figures out today from Nielsen show how that has translated into a domination of the business of mobile content as well: phones based on Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)…

Nearly 12 years after it first launched, iTunes Store has gone live in Brazil and 15 other Latin American countries, as the region’s consumer digital content market takes off.

Spotify and Pandora (NYSE: P) may be the music brands people think of today when it comes to streaming services. But with only five million consumers using services like these today, there is clearly an opportunity for another player to emerge to try to pick up more. Enter a new…

Android games have notched up more than 2.5 billion downloads since the launch of Google’s Android Market store, taking a 25.6 percent share of the store’s first 10 billion downloads.

The Deezer music subscription service has put a June 2012 deadline on its already-announced plan to roll out in over 200 countries - a globalisation that will take it pretty much everywhere except the U.S..

Music downloads may have taken a backseat to streaming services like Spotify in the buzz stakes, but with iTunes still driving more music sales than the rest of the digital music industry put together, they are far from being out of the picture. Today saw 7digital, the UK-based download service…

We’ve seen some significant strides for LTE in the past year—with some big names like Verizon and AT&T (NYSE: T) getting behind the fast mobile broadband technology and rolling it out for the masses. The latest reports on what Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is cooking up could be another boost: Apple…

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek took the stage at Spotify’s first-ever press conference to expand the music streaming service’s Facebook integration to a wider world of social networks and devices, arguing that sharing is the only thing that can save the music industry and stop piracy.

in a move illustrating the growing role of technology patents, mobile music service Shazam is buying back some of its intellectual property - six years after it sold it to finance the company.

Rolling Stone magazine will release an iPad app companion this week for its The Beatles: The Ultimate Album-by-Album Guide book this week, as its parent Wenner Media prepares to launch full digital magazine replica apps on the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) tablet next year for its flagship title and US Weekly.

The digital music market is not in a great place right now and is in need of some major change: CD sales are still shrinking more quickly than digital revenues are growing; doubts are growing over the freemium model; overall consumer adoption remains niche.  So what do Google (NSDQ: GOOG)…

Spotify’s early traction in its native Sweden gives the world a glimpse at what a market looks like when strong music subscription services flourish, converting listeners from ownership to access.

Google’s take on online music services evolved Tuesday with the launch of Google Music, a free service that will let users upload 20,000 songs from their current libraries and acquire new music from Google (NSDQ: GOOG). That music can be stored on Google’s services and accessed by a variety of…

On the heels of news last week that it has secured EMI‘s recorded music division for nearly $2 billion, Universal Music is again in the news: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is reportedly very close to signing a deal with the company to use its music as part of an upcoming download…

It took a little longer than expected, but Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) launched iTunes Match Monday with the release of a new version of iTunes just days before Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is expected to unveil new developments in its own music strategy.