To make up for its tardiness to the online music store game, Google Music has enlisted bona fide music lovers to help curate its store. It's the Google version of "High Fidelity," with Tim Quirk as Rob Gordon.READ»
Google launched its long-overdue music store today, roughly eight years into the reign of Apple's iTunes Store, which just sold its 16 billionth song.READ»
In a cunning move, Amazon is selling Lady Gaga's new album for 99 cents, and giving the people who download it free access to its cloud-based music locker. Your move, Apple. READ»
The sudden launch of Google's Music service combined with its boorish business behavior has ticked off some important folks: The record labels. Meanwhile, Apple's cloud-based music locker is said to be much better.READ»
Yesterday, Google Launched Music Beta, a cloud-based music service that lets you stream all your songs from any Android device. Here's how to make it play well with others, too.READ»
What's Google's new cloud-based music service got in common with Lady Gaga? Word of a forthcoming ad shot recently in NYC and pairing the tech and fame monsters might offer clues. READ»
Finally! Some more substantial evidence that Google is readying a music service! For years, rumors have been trickling in that the search giant plans to create a cloud-based subscription music service to store your songs in a "digital locker." But until now, the rumors have amounted to little more than, well, rumors.READ»
Apple negotiated with Facebook for more than 18 months to launch Ping, its new social network. How much heads up did they give to record labels? Absolutely none.READ»
The oft-flawless company stumbled in Ping's launch, and the reasons why are representative of Apple's relationship with consumers, record labels, and Google.READ»
Here's one you probably weren't expecting: There's a rumor Google's poised to leap into yet another business sector--music. Actually, given Google's expansionist habits it's probably not a surprise. But it is confusing.
The rumor's ...READ»
