Pandora Media, the popular streaming Internet and mobile radio service, began trading on the NASDAQ stock exchange this morning under the ticker “P.” After raising its price target twice leading up to the offering, Pandora settled on a $16 a share valuation, then began trading on its first day at $20. According to a press [...]

Google execs confirmed to Billboard yesterday that the company would announce their long-rumored music service – to be called Music Beta by Google – on Tuesday at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco. As has been reported recently, Google all but gave up negotiating with major record labels for licenses for a music service [...]

Life in the clouds. While we’ve been writing about Apple‘s cloud music service – and the recent coup of signing Warner Music to a licensing deal – on Wednesday GigaOm reported that the Swedish company Xcerion was putting their domain iCloud.com up for sale, reportedly for around $4.5 million. Xcerion was running a storage cloud [...]

On Monday of this week, the National Music Publishers’ Association released a press release supporting steps being made by Congress to enact legislative tools to better fight illegal music file sharing online. Now the NMPA, a trade organization which represents the interests of music publishers, has joined many record labels in criticizing Amazon’s new music [...]

Google Music has been rumored to be getting very close to a launching stage for some time. There’s already been a leaked version of a Google Music service with cloud and streaming functionality for Google’s tablet operating system, Honeycomb. Now, a writer from Tech From 10 has uncovered details about an Android smartphone OS version [...]

Well, yesterday we wrote that Amazon might beat Apple and Google to the cloud, and today, the online-shopping giant has officially done it. On Amazon’s home page Tuesday, the company has published a letter to users from CEO Jeff Bezos. Bezos explains in layman terms why cloud computing is, essentially, better – especially for music. [...]

According to CNET’s Greg Sandoval, Amazon has been in talks with major record and movie industry representatives about the creation of an Amazon cloud locker for music and film. CNET reports that such a service could feasibly be announced as early as next week, though a launch date for an Amazon cloud locker is not [...]

Apple Confirms iTunes Overhaul

Keeps fingers crossed…

Quadruple the fun…

Amazon or iTunes?