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Rock and roll superstar Neil Young continued his fight against digital music earlier this week when he compared the widespread acceptability of Internet piracy to the way fans used to discover music on the radio.

The iRadio, Apple's planned radio streaming service akin to Pandora, is reportedly still in the works.

Spotify has removed a feature from its desktop application that allowed users to purchase and download new music in an effort to "simplify" its service.

A significant drop in Instagram's daily active users recorded by AppData after the photo-sharing app announced on Dec. 17 changes in its privacy policy and terms of service may be exaggerated.

Musician and composer Trent Reznor is working with Interscope Records and Beats by Dre to develop a new music-streaming service known as Daisy, the Nine Inch Nails front man revealed in a profile for The New Yorker.

Metallica and Sean Parker ended their feud over music-sharing as the metal band announced it would add its catalog to the popular streaming service.

Spotify is introducing a beta version of its forthcoming browser-based app on Thursday, according to several reports.

Spotify has raised an additional $100 million in its latest round of fundraising including $25 million from high-profile investors like Coca Cola and Fidelity, the New York Times reports.

Spotify is reportedly close to closing a $100M round of financing that would value that company at just over $3B, a $1B drop from its rumored valuation just six months ago.

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has announced the launch of a new music-streaming service, Xbox Music, the company’s first attempt to rival today’s major music services such as Spotify and Apple’s (Nasdaq: AAPL) iTunes.

Search engine optimization is often discussed as some sort of sneaky journalism practice, but X5 Music Group is proving that a trick or two comes in handy with music sales as well.

Paul Simon once crooned: Every generation sends a hero up the pop charts. But the heroes of the latest generation of young music-hungry consumers are finding it difficult to get them to actually buy their work.

Streaming music service Spotify Ltd. launched a mobile radio feature on Tuesday that connects to Apple Inc.'s (Nasdaq: AAPL) ubiquitous iPhones and iPads, encroaching on the turf of online radio provider Pandora Media Inc. (NYSE: P).

Spotify for the iPad has arrived! Almost 10 months after the arrival of Spotify in the states and two years after the launch of the iPad, the music streaming application has released a big-screen version of itself.

Spotify users are now able to embed playlists and songs using the Spotify Play Button.

Netflix has rapidly expanded its instant streaming offerings in the handful of years since it first branched out from being a Web-based DVD rental service. However, some of the most popular films and TV series, including Game of Thrones, are still unavailable on Netflix, and they may never be if HBO has its way.

Android App Market only recently changed its name to Google Play.

Every year, the Y Combinator Demo Day gives startup companies an opportunity to pitch their incubated startups to the Valley's biggest investors. This edition brings more than 60 companies, and at least one of them is sure to make some waves: Flutter.

Spotify, the music startup that has taken the Internet by storm due in large part to its presence on Facebook, has some good news for those who use the ad-supported version of the service after saying it will continue to offer unlimited music.

Netflix has not released a Facebook app in the U.S. because of a privacy law called the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) that prevents video renters from publishing customer's rental records.

Beats Electronics, majority-owned by HTC, is close to acquiring digital music subscription service MOG for an undisclosed sum, according to an anonymous source familiar with the matter.

Turntable.fm, the popular New York-based music streaming service that lets groups listen to music together and virtually DJ for each other, has taken a massive step toward becoming more legitimate: The company has announced today at SXSW that it reached agreements with all four major American labels -- Sony BMG, Universal, EMI and Warner.

Bonnaroo has finally made the long awaited 2012 lineup announcement. The lineup was exclusively announced by Spotify on Tuesday, with Radiohead headlining one of the four days of the music festival on the 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee. This isn't the first time that Radiohead will be playing for the Bonnaroo crowd. In 2006 the band was a headliner along with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers and Beck.

Many don't like Facebook's new changes in Timeline, and luckily, there are a slew of solutions to revert the social network to the way it was. Delete your News Ticker, revert your News Feed, and get your old chat back with these great add-ons and extensions.

Facebook will soon force everyone to update the social network to the latest iteration, Facebook Timeline. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, has never been shy about his vision a world that shares information seamlessly.

Facebook just made listening to music even more social, with its new Listen With button that allows users to share music in a chat room.

Try Pandora, Spotify or Last.fm.

I've tried my best to embrace Spotify. Ever since news broke of its collaboration with Facebook, I've done my best to remain an active user. That's what Mark Zuckerberg wants. He envisions a world of seamless sharing on the internet. I know this because he said so at his F8 presentation, the annual Facebook developers' conference. But of course, Zuckerberg just wants more users on his company's app platform.

Spotify, the online music streaming service, has announced its very own app platform that aims to bring users music related info through third party applications.