Applitalism.com, the combination of social network and application store that launched in September and ‘went global’ a few weeks ago, says it now has more than 10 million music downloads in its catalogue for US and Canadian visitors. UK users can browse through more than 5 million tracks.
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Music discovery service Shazam has launched a Take That 'Golden Tag' promotion in the UK, offering the chance to attend a special Take That performance and meet the group.
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Microsoft says it's expanding Zune, its digital entertainment service, into more than 20 countries – including the UK. Zune's music and video services will be available on Windows-based PCs, on Windows Phone 7 handsets and on the Xbox gaming console later this year.
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Tonight's big Apple announcement was, as expected, focussed on the music rather than the mobile side of the business.
The company has introduced a new iPod touch music player with many of the features that were first introduced on the iPhone 4, including a 'Retina Display', Apple's A4 chip, FaceTime video calling over WiFi (with front-facing camera and microphone), 3-axis gyroscope and HD video recording.
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Research and analysis business eMarketer predicts that revenue from mobile content in the USA will rise from less than $1.15 billion last year to more than $3.53 billion in 2014. That's a compound annual growth rate of nearly 20% during the five-year period.
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