March 22nd, 2013 by Music Ally

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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.

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March 6th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge

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Beats' decision to spin off its in-development streaming music service Daisy as a separate company isn't a surprise, nor is its decision to raise $60m of funding to do it. The lead investor may be more...

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February 13th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge

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Beats is hoping to launch its new Daisy streaming music service this summer rather than towards the end of 2013, according to chairman Jimmy Iovine. Yet in his latest public appearance at the Dive Into...

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January 11th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge

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By now, you’ll have hopefully seen our news story last night on the appointment of Topspin’s Ian Rogers as CEO of Daisy, the upcoming subscription music service from Beats. After we broke the...

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January 10th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge

Audio firm Beats is holding a conference call for journalists tonight, although at least some of its news has already leaked: the fact that Topspin boss Ian Rogers is joining the company as CEO of its...

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January 10th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge

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Last year, Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor revealed he was working with Beats on a streaming music service called Daisy, to launch in 2013. Now it has a CEO: Ian Rogers. Yes, that Ian Rogers, poached...

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December 11th, 2012 by Stuart Dredge

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Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor has been working with audio firm Beats for a little while now, teasing fans with the promise that “a number of very interesting projects that will start to emerge...

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November 21st, 2012 by Music Ally

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Headphones firm Beats is looking for a new boss for streaming music service Mog, which it acquired earlier this year, with CEO David Hyman leaving abruptly.

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October 17th, 2012 by Music Ally

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Audio firm Beats by Dre has some new devices to shout about, including a wireless speaker called The Pill, which really does look like a great big red pill.

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