May 16th, 2013 by Music Ally

In what has to count as startlingly fortuitous timing, Apple's iOS App Store reached the 50bn app-downloads milestone just as rival Google was holding its news-packed I/O conference keynote.

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May 8th, 2013 by Music Ally

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Startup Focus@will launched its streaming music service in the US last year promising that its web-app was "pioneering the newly-defined Productivity Music space".

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April 18th, 2013 by Music Ally

Mobile analytics firm App Annie has published its latest quarterly market index. Its key findings for the first quarter of 2013.

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April 10th, 2013 by Music Ally

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The Google Play music service has expanded into seven new countries – Austria, Australia, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, New Zealand and Portugal – announcing the move in a Google+ posting.

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April 10th, 2013 by Music Ally

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The one recurring criticism of Android apps (certainly compared to Apple App Store apps) is that any old tat can make it through.

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April 4th, 2013 by Music Ally

British collecting society PRS for Music has announced its financial results for 2012, revealing that its collections rose 1.7% year-on-year to £641.8m.

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February 4th, 2013 by Music Ally

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A puzzling story in yesterday's Telegraph suggested that EMI's Parlophone label has "refused to join" the Google Play service "claiming it offers no obvious benefit to its musicians".

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January 23rd, 2013 by Music Ally

Research2guidance estimates that $8bn was spent on paid app downloads in 2012 across five app stores

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December 19th, 2012 by Music Ally

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Google adds scan-and-match to its US cloud music service.

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