Internet Music Services

Google, MySpace and Facebook make moves so music is easier to discover, watch, buy online Internet power players Google, MySpace and Facebook are adopting strategies to better compete in a music industry that is rapidly shifting online. In separate developments Wednesday, it ...

MySpace uses music joint venture to replace some YouTube videos on pages of Facebook, others Social-networking site MySpace is using its joint venture with recording companies to launch a music video service that will pop into millions of profiles at rival Facebook ...

Google plans to allow users to listen to songs or buy them directly from search results pages in a partnership to be unveiled next week with online music sites, according to reports Wednesday. Google has teamed up with iLike, a music discovery ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc is partnering with major music labels to launch a new feature to make it easier to discover, sample and buy songs on the search engine, according to two people familiar with the plan. The recorded music ...

EU's Kroes says online music rights deal with industry is a breakthrough The EU's top antitrust official on Wednesday described a deal among Apple Inc.'s iTunes, music companies, distributors and online licensing groups as a "great breakthrough" that would roll out more ...

MySpace moves to hire MTV executive as revenue officer; iLike founders named senior VPs MySpace is naming a former MTV Networks ad sales executive to a top role, while promoting the founders of recently acquired site iLike to senior positions. News Corp.'s ...

Music blog Mog to offer high-fidelity music streaming service with major-label partnerships Consumers seem reluctant to sign up for online music services that charge subscription fees, yet a music blogging site is hoping to reel in music lovers by offering unlimited access ...

Pay-TV giant BSkyB said on Monday it will launch an online music service next week which offers consumers access to more than four million tracks, rivalling Apple's iTunes. Sky Songs, which is paid for with a monthly fee, will offer users songs ...

LONDON (Reuters) - British media group BSkyB will next week launch Sky Songs, a digital music service it hopes will challenge Apple's iTunes and Spotify in the music downloads business. BSkyB said on Sunday the service, which will go live on October ...

Eminem's music publisher settles lawsuit with Apple over digital rights to rapper's songs Apple Inc. and the music publisher for Eminem have settled a lawsuit over the digital downloading rights to many of the Detroit rapper's songs, a lawyer said Friday. Eight ...