The European TechCrunch pulled a clever, yet disturbingly truthful April Fool's joke on Spotify. Long-time critic and writer Paul Carr somewhat convincingly broke news that Spotify had come to the. Continue reading

Some are writing volumes about how the labels are going to force Amazon to license their new Cloud Player and Cloud storage locker. The real story is that Amazon already. Continue reading

Pho, an infamous music industry and technology e-mail listserv, unearthed a great WSJ article from 2001 the other day. It documents the uptake in interest in the MP3 several months. Continue reading

The race to the cloud heated up yesterday as Amazon jumped the gun on Google and Apple and got a running start. Expect responses from the latter companies soon. This. Continue reading

(UPDATED) The pundits couldn't get enough of yesterday's announcement by Amazon of it's Cloud Locker and Cloud Player for music.  Several described it as too simple (I think simple is. Continue reading

Earlier this month, ABI Research predicted that cloud music to boom in the next five years, reaching a subscriber of 161 million by 2016. They believed that smartphone penetration, a. Continue reading

The IFPI reports that digital sale grew a meager 5.1% last year and that in the U.S., growth was almost flat at 1.2%. These numbers and chart that accompanies them. Continue reading

(UPDATED) Overnight Amazon beat both Google and Apple to market with the launch of a freemium cloud based digital media locker and robust integrated music player that accesses stored tracks. Continue reading

Spotify hasn't completed its deals with U.S. record labels, but that hasn't stopped the music streamer from ramping up its hiring here. "Spotify is looking for rock star engineers and. Continue reading