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Maybe Apple's New App Subscription Rule Won't Hammer Amazon (AAPL, AMZN)
Apple's new in-app subscription policy might not affect Amazon after all. Berstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi met with Apple execs last week and pressed them on how the new subscription policy would...
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Rhapsody Offers 60-Day Trial Ahead Of Rumored Spotify U.S. Launch
Rhapsody is giving away 60 day free trials of its on-demand music service in a joint promotion with MTV. The move could help Rhapsody keep its market lead ahead of the rumored launch of European...
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Apple Protesters Using iPad Event To Spread Their Message (AAPL)
A group protesting Apple's new subscription rules for publishers is handing out literature to the press waiting to get into today's iPad event in San Francisco. The group, SaveOurPress.com, claims...
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Apple Protesters: Publishers Should Boycott App Store (APPL)
Who were those protesters handing out pamphlets outside Apple's iPad 2 announcement yesterday and what do they want? The protest and its accompanying site, SaveOurPress.com, are the brainchild of a...
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Crazy Prediction: 161 Million Music Subscribers By 2016
Maybe all of the investors plowing tens of millions of dollars into music startups are on to something: a new report predicts that more than 161 million people will subscribe to music services in five...
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Disney To Launch Children's Magazines In A Tough U.S. Market
On Tuesday, Disney plans to announce the launch of new subscription children's magazines based on demand for test issues last year. The subscriptions will be a U.S. replication of a strong business...
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Q&A: Rhapsody's President On Locking Horns With Apple
Music subscription service Rhapsody was spun out of RealNetworks one year ago today, and the company is celebrating its birthday with a party at high noon. The company has reason to celebrate: it has...
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Sony's Music Service Puts The Pressure On Google (SNE, GOOG)
Sony's subscription music service is finally coming to mobile phones, filling a big gap versus services like Rhapsody, Rdio, and (in Europe) Spotify. It should also provide welcome competition to...
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From The Why-Didn't-Anyone-Think-Of-This-Sooner Department: 30-Use Free...
Great idea from Twitter co-founder Ev Williams: 30-use free trials instead of 30-days. Most subscription based online services come with some form of free trial period. The problem is that, as...
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Rhapsody Tries To Stop The Spotify Juggernaut
The subscription music wars are heating up now that Spotify is stateside. Today, Rhapsody said it would buy Napster from Best Buy in a bid to increase its userbase. Rhapsody claims 800,000 paying...
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This Former Salesforce Hotshot Just Closed A $36 Million Round
Investors are pouring money into a group of fast-growing cloud computing startups that compete with stodgy enterprise software from companies like SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft. Earlier this month...
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Who Is This Tech Exec, And Why Did He Just Shave His Head?
It's Rhapsody president Jon Irwin, and he promised to shave his head when Rhapsody passed the milestone of one million paying subscribers. The ten-year-old music service basically invented online...
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THE GOOGLE INVESTOR: Is There A Google TV Subscription Service In The Works?...
The Google Investor is a daily report from SAI. Sign up here to receive it by email GOOG Down With Markets Markets are off as January retail sales come in weird and mixed. Shares of GOOG are off with...
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CHART OF THE DAY: Cord-Cutting Isn't Happening: The Pay TV Business Is Growing
Despite the deepest wishes of the smart-set on the Internet, the pay-TV business isn't dying. As this chart from Alex Cocotas of BI Intelligence, via Bernstein, shows total subscribers to pay-TV were...
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Not Sure You Want To Buy The New iPad? Try It For 30 Days (AAPL)
Still not sure if you're ready to drop the big bucks on the new iPad tomorrow? A new subscription service will allow you to test the product out for 30 days to help you make your decision. YBUY is an...
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Actually, $3.5 Billion For Spotify Isn't COMPLETELY Insane (AAPL)
Earlier today, we reported that Spotify is shopping around for a new fundraising round and asking for a valuation of $3.5 billion. At first glance that seems completely nuts. The company does not own...
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Spotify Is Not Like iTunes, And Can NEVER Be Profitable (AAPL)
Spotify's asking valuation of $3.5 billion is ballpark reasonable if you compare it to Apple's iTunes on revenue and growth. But long time digital music entrepreneur Michael Robertson thinks that...
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CHART OF THE DAY: The Internet Just Can't Kill Pay TV
Pay TV is proving amazingly resilient to the rise of web-video. As you can see here, net subscriber additions to pay TV services (like cable, satellite, or telecos) were up again last quarter. Since...
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China's Launching Its Own Netflix-like Service
China's getting it's own Netflix-like movie service. The country's government-run China Movie Channel is launching a subscription-based online service similar to Netflix later this year, according to...
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Outspoken Blog TechDirt Will Let Anyone Shut It Down For A Day -- For A Price
We can't decide if TechDirt's expansion of its online store is brilliant or satirical. TechDirt is an outspoken blog founded by editor Mike Masnick that covers a lot of tech trends, with a heavy focus...
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