Technology brand Apple’s plan to offer online television subscription may be boosted by the involvement of US media companies CBS and Walt Disney, according to reports.
Through its planned subscription service Apple could offer TV shows from major networks for a monthly fee according to the Wall Street Journal.
The company is rumoured to be planning to [...]
Free online music provider Spotify is currently providing a much more positive picture of the free music movement than its non commercial, illegal download nemiseis Pirate Bay.
Spotify has provided a framework where music labels make money and users can listen to more than a million tunes free of charge. It was been warmly welcomed by [...]
By Joseph Menn in San Francisco and Tim Bradshaw in London of the Financial Times
Published: March 29 2009 18:54
Tumbling advertising revenues are laying waste to another wave of internet entrepreneurs as they struggle to satisfy promises of free music to users and cash flows to the labels that own the copyright.
Two popular services that allowed [...]