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Album sales up for first time since 2004

July 7, 2011 10:46 am by Phill Tutt

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A survey from Nielsen that tracks music sales across real and digital sources shows that album sales actually increased in the first half of this year, Techcrunch reports. The increase – albeit one of just 1% – was the first time album sales had risen since 2004.

In an apparent move to take on Apple’s iCloud, Amazon has made a series of enhancements to its Amazon Cloud Drive and Cloud Player services, says bgr.com. For a limited time, anyone who signs up will get unlimited space for music while Cloud Drive customers can now store all MP3s purchased from the Amazon MP3 music store for free. On top of this, the Cloud Player for Web is now available on the iPad. Read more

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Google+ eyes push for iPad app

July 5, 2011 10:28 am by Phill Tutt

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Google+ has submitted an iPhone and iPad app for the social network to Apple’s App Store, Mashable reports. Approval for the app is expected within the next two weeks, Mashable says. Facebook is yet to release its own iOS app. Read more

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Story of the week: Cloud music

May 28, 2011 12:35 am by Maryam Nabi

While investors were giddy this week about the latest tech-company IPOs, the technologists themselves were more interested in the advent of services bringing music to people from the cloud–or clouds.  Read more

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Joseph Menn Amazon looks to Gaga-power a cloud ahead of Apple

May 24, 2011 5:41 pm by Joseph Menn

Along with Google, Amazon beat digital-music kingpin Apple in the race to launch a cloud offering that lets users hear their songs on any device, but this week’s deal with Lady Gaga shows just how much it dreads the widely anticipated arrival of competition from Cupertino. Read more

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Chris Nuttall Amazon cloud occludes Foursquare, others

April 21, 2011 6:56 pm by Chris Nuttall

Several popular social networking services were knocked out on Thursday due to problems with cloud services provided by Amazon. The outages for the likes of Foursquare, Hootsuite, Quora and Reddit illustrates the dependence of many startups on rented remote computing power and the widespread disruption that can be caused if a single cloud provider has problems with its network. Read more

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Further reading: Amazon’s cut-price Kindle

April 12, 2011 10:43 am by Phill Tutt

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  • Amazon has announced it is to sell its Kindle e-reader for $25 less than the lowest current list price — with adverts and other types of sponsored content, PaidContent reports.  The first companies to advertise include Buick, Chase, Olay, and Visa and the promotions will appear on either the screen saver or the bottom of the home page.

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Further reading: Amazon joins mobile payment rumour mill and tablets a bitter pill for Acer

April 1, 2011 10:43 am by Phill Tutt

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  • Amazon is considering introducing a service that would let consumers pay for goods using their mobile phones and near-field-communication technology, according to Bloomberg. News that the company’s Amazon Payments unit is said to be examining the service follows reports over the past few weeks that Apple, Google and Microsoft are all also planning to offer the mobile payment system.

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Further reading: Amazon courts music groups and Samsung probes spyware claims

March 31, 2011 10:56 am by Phill Tutt

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  • Amazon.com is courting the world’s big  music companies as it seeks licensing deals that would help improve the online music service it launched Tuesday, according to the Wall Street Journal. The moves are also an attempt to calm the music groups’ concerns over the lack of notice of the online retailer’s plans, the WSJ says.

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Chris Nuttall Amazon floats cloud music service

March 29, 2011 8:30 am by Chris Nuttall

Amazon – not Apple nor Google – is the big new player in cloud music services, launching its offering on Tuesday while those of its rivals are still the subject of speculation. The online retailer announced Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player – the first service gives users 5Gb of free data storage online and the second allows them to play, in a web browser or smartphone app, music they have uploaded to the cloud drive. Read more

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Further reading: Groupon’s president and judge throws out Google book deal

March 23, 2011 10:54 am by Phill Tutt

Tech news from around the web:

  • AllThingsDigital reports that Rob Solomon, the president and chief operating officer of group buying site Groupon, is stepping down from his job. No reasons have been given for the former Yahoo executive’s departure.

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