Apple's announcement last night of its latest quarterly financials came as something of a relief, given the overheated speculation about the numbers in recent weeks. Here are the key figures for the...
April 12th, 2013 by Music Ally
This one has been rumbling on for months (years, even), but The Verge is sticking its neck out and claiming that Universal Music is very close to signing a deal with Apple for its iRadio service – its...
April 10th, 2013 by Music Ally
You wait for one Apple ‘changing the face of content access’ patent filing and then two turn up at once. The big music one is a patent covering the purchase of music without the need for an internet...
April 10th, 2013 by Music Ally
It has emerged that Apple has filed a parent for its devices that covers automatic transfer of content/files from a computer to a handheld device.
March 25th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
Apple has long maintained that its iTunes Store is a breakeven business, with the margins made on selling music (and more recently films, TV shows, e-books and apps) cancelled out by the costs of running...
March 22nd, 2013 by Music Ally
Strategy Analytics is doing its best to talk up the "cloud storage wars" with a survey claiming that 27% of US internet users have used Apple's iCloud.
March 22nd, 2013 by Music Ally
Here's something for labels who've released a sizeable number of iOS apps to think about: from the start of May, Apple will be enforcing a couple of new rules on apps.
March 22nd, 2013 by Music Ally
2013 is shaping up as a momentous year for streaming music, with Google, Amazon, Apple and Beats all in talks about new services to compete.
March 20th, 2013 by Music Ally
Google, Apple and now Amazon: the list of potential entrants to the streaming music market grows by the day. The Verge claims that Amazon is in "very informal" talks with music rightsholders.
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