The popular music streaming service Rhapsody is set to make its European debut this year, following its acquisition of Napster International. The service will launch in the U.K. and Germany where it will take over from Napster in March, though it will continue to operate under the Napster name. While Napster hasn’t exactly been a

Napster has met its maker. The seminal peer-to-peer music sharing service has finally bowed out, as the company is officially merging with Rhapsody today, December 1, 2011. The news confirms an earlier report that claimed Rhapsody signed an agreement with Best Buy, Napster’s parent company. Originally launched in 1999, Napster is most widely known for altering the way

Looks like after a long bloody battle between tech companies and the music labels, an accord had been reached in recent months to deliver streaming audio content to the masses. But, it appears, there’s a new wrinkle that’s popping up — and this time, it’s the artists themselves. Coldplay has refused to allow titles from

Competing with Apple’s iTunes music store — the world’s number one music store — was always going to be a difficult task for Walmart, and after eight years of trying the company has finally decided to throw in the towel and close its digital music store at the end of this month. Walmart launched mp3.walmart.com

So why is everyone so excited about Spotify‘s way overdue launch in the U.S.? After all, we have no lack of music streaming services here. Well, it pretty much blazed a trail in Europe, where it is still hugely popular. Unfortunately, the Swedish-based music-streaming company seemingly took forever for it to negotiate the deals it

Spotify is making big waves in the digital music business today. If you don’t know the application, that might be because it’s not available in the U.S. yet outside of a very limited beta release, but the streaming music app and service is hugely popular in Europe. And despite not being publicly offered in Apple’s