Songkick is one of a handful of new companies that has taken a simple idea and is slowly transforming the music industry. The site puts concert listings in one single place by aggregating data from 150 ticket sites, then personalizes it for users by scanning artists from their iTunes or Pandora account. Since Songkick launched [...]

On Monday Apple announced iCloud, a revolutionary new cloud-based storage service. iCloud stores everything (photos, videos, music, documents) for you on Apple’s servers and makes wireless updates between Apple devices. The new iCloud services will compete with Google’s web-based services like Gmail and Google Docs, where changes a user makes are saved automatically and are [...]

In a press release on Tuesday, Apple announced that the focus on next week’s Worldwide Developers Conference will be soundly on software. Steve Jobs will come off medical leave to lead a keynote address on Monday, June 6. The press release has surprised many tech watchers. Apple has been typically cagey before major announcements, and [...]

In a report on CNET, Greg Sandoval says that Apple has signed a deal with EMI for their forthcoming cloud music service. While Amazon and Google have both recently launched “passive” cloud lockers in lieu of scoring licensing deals with the major labels, it appears Apple is holding out for the real thing. As we [...]

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 [...]

Last Thursday, All Things Digital reported that Apple had signed two of the four major labels to licensing deals for the company’s yet-to-launch cloud music service, though they were not able to confirm which companies. Now it appears, based on a report on CNET this morning, that Apple has signed a licensing agreement with Warner [...]

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 [...]

Earlier this week, we wrote about Apple’s forthcoming cloud locker and also mentioned Google’s hopes and dreams for the music space. While Google Music was recently discovered in secret, now CNET reports that the search giant’s service is “nearly ready to launch.” Google’s one holdup, CNET and others have reported, is that they’d like their [...]

Is April the cruelest month? Perhaps not if we finally see the launch of an Apple cloud. According to The Music Void, Apple plans to re-launch their subscription-based online services platform, MobileMe, in April and also hopes to have music licenses ironed out so they can introduce the long-awaited iTunes locker. Google was caught in [...]