By Yinka Adegoke NEW YORK (Reuters) - Digital music seller Rhapsody is launching a $50 million marketing assault on Apple's iTunes, offering songs online and via partners including Yahoo Inc and Verizon Wireless, Rhapsody said on Monday. The songs will be sold in...
With Apple's integrated iPod/iTunes product dominating the digital-download market, competitors have found it challenging to stake a claim. So what makes MTV, Verizon Wireless, and RealNetworks think they can lure customers to their new Rhapsody America download service (which draws upon two unsuccessful ventures: MTV's URGE music store and Real's...
SEATTLE, June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The first 100,000 people to sign up for an account at http://www.rhapsody.com/mp3 will receive a free digital album of their choice complements of Rhapsody, the digital music service from RealNetworks and MTV Networks, which today opened the virtual doors to its new MP3...
Rhapsody PC Client Integrates Smith Micro's AutoSync Technology to Manage Mobile Music Devices ALISO VIEJO, Calif. -- Smith Micro Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:SMSI), a leading developer and marketer of software solutions and services for the wireless market, today announced it has signed an agreement with Rhapsody America LLC, a...
Yahoo, which is mulling a $44.6 billion acquisition bid from Microsoft, is pulling the plug on its Yahoo Music Unlimited online music rental service and moving its subscribers to Rhapsody in the coming months. Rhapsody will be the exclusive on-demand music service on...
Yahoo will turn off its subscription music service and refer customers to RealNetworks' Rhapsody, the companies announced Monday. Music remains an important area for Yahoo and its users; its music site gets about 22 million unique visitors each month, noted Ian Rogers, vice president of video and...
Keeping track of all those pennies and pence in the online music business can be taxing. RoyaltyShare's new Web-based Content Management Service provides record labels and small distributors with a cost-effective way to manage the complexities of the digital sales process, including ...
Whole Home Automation Partnership Includes Full Integration of Rhapsody LAS VEGAS -- RealNetworks[R], Inc., (NASDAQ:RNWK) and Control4, the leader in affordable IP-based control and entertainment systems, today announced plans to integrate Rhapsody([R]), the official digital music service of RealNetworks and MTV Networks, into the full line of Control4...
40 Million Dollar Deal is the Latest in String of High Profile Wins OSLO, Norway & NEEDHAM, Mass. -- Fast Search & Transfer ASA FAST today announced that a major global science and health information publisher has signed a five year contract extension. The value for 2008 is...
Haier America thinks consumers need another portable media player - one that comes with built-in Wi-Fi. The company has partnered with RealNetworks and MTV's Rhapsody and AOL Video to launch the ibiza Rhapsody Wi-Fi portable media player PMP. It describes the ibiza as "a new class...
NEW YORK -- TiVo will unveil today a deal with RealNetworks to offer its Rhapsody subscription music service on TiVo DVRs. It's the first step in a TiVo campaign to broaden its audio service and further differentiate itself from in-house DVR offerings by cable and satellite providers. ...
RealNetworks, Inc. (NASDAQ:RNWK), and Vodafone are teaming to create a single, integrated digital music experience that consumers can access via their PC, portable music device or mobile phone. Promising to be ultra-rich in music culture, programming and discovery, Rhapsody will unite the best of RealNetworks' market-leading...
- MTV, RealNetworks Merge Music Services to Create Rhapsody America - Wal-Mart Starts Selling DRM-free Music Downloads MTV Networks and RealNetworks are merging their online digital music stores to create Rhapsody America. The new service combines MTV's Urge service with...
Wireless News08-26-2007MTV Networks, RealNetworks and Verizon Wireless Link for New Integrated Digital Music ServiceWIRELESS NEWS-August 26, 2007-MTV Networks, RealNetworks and Verizon Wireless Link for New Integrated Digital Music Service C2007 10Meters - http://www.10meters.com RealNetworks, MTV Networks, a division of Viacom International, and Verizon Wireless are teaming to create a...
Apple's successful digital music business has a big target on its back. But it's not clear whether Apple's rivals can hit the mark -- or how much the company would be hurt if they do. The latest sign that Apple's competitors are gunning for it came...
Competitors are ratcheting up the pressure on Apple's dominant iTunes music store, with a blizzard of new online retailers being launched with support from the record industry. Wal-Mart, the world's largest retail company, said yesterday that it would undercut iTunes with sales of music downloads that...
-- gBox But Not iTunes -- Rhapsody, Wal-Mart, Amazon.com, Best Buy, Too Universal Music, the world's largest record label group, snubbed Apple this week by saying it will make songs available without copy protection in the popular MP3 format at...
RealNetworks and LyricFind made a deal this week to launch searchable lyrics on Rhapsody Online, Real's Web-based digital music service. Listeners are used to going to straight to Google when they want to get the lyrics to a song on their playlist and perhaps sing along....
First Apple teamed up with itself to closely tie the iPod to iTunes. Then Samsung and Napster hooked up to optimize some players for the Napster online music service. Next came SanDisk's Sansa Connect, which is optimized for Yahoo Music Unlimited. Now, iRiver...
SEATTLE -- Amazon.com plans to open an online music store offering only songs that are free of copy-protection technology and can be played on anything from PCs to portable gadgets such as Apple's iPod or Microsoft's Zune. The Internet retailer decided to steer clear of digital-rights management...
