AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford---A showcase and meeting ground for new companies in the digital space---- was held last week with about 850 attendees, primarily venture...

Yahoo will compensate customers of its Yahoo Music online store once the company shuts down its servers and prevents customers from renewing their copy protection licenses, the company says. The firm now says that anyone who purchased tracks in addition to their monthly subscriptions to Yahoo Music will be refunded "for whatever [was] paid" for th...

The as-yet unlaunched MySpace Music will likely partner with Amazon to handle all music ecommerce transactions, we’ve heard from multiple sources. Apple and Rhapsody are also bidding for the business, however, and one source says a final decision hasn’t yet been made. The project, which combines the music from three of the four major labels (Sony [...]

The company said its digital rights management servers would be taken down, severely limiting the use of the files.

If you were one of Yahoo's Unlimited Music Store customers you may soon be what is known as SOL. That's because Yahoo plans to pull the plug on its digital rights management servers on September 30 , effectively screwing stranding any of it's customers that need to re-authorize their purchased tracks if they upgrade to a new PC or need to reload the operating system. Yahoo has suggested ...

The Rolling Stones, the world's top earning music act last year, have signed a long-term, exclusive worldwide contract with Vivendi's Universal Music, dealing a major blow to the group's former recording company EMI Group.

Vivendi's Universal Music has signed an exclusive, long-term worldwide recording agreement with The Rolling Stones, in a deal that will be a blow to the band's previous record company EMI.

For years Apple's iPod and iTunes Store have been the world's most popular digital media player and online music retailer combination, but if Research In Motion (RIM), maker of the BlackBerry smartphone and Apple's number-one iPhone competitor, has its way, that may soon begin to change.

Like Microsoft before it, Yahoo is ending digital rights management (DRM) support for an old music service. Beginning on October 1, users who downloaded songs from Yahoo Music will no longer be able to play them back on new computers or operating systems.

Just over a month after consumer backlash caused MSN Music to rescind its decision to deactivate the digital rights management ("DRM") servers that allowed MSN Music purchasers to "reauthorize" music files after upgrading operating systems or buying new computers, Yahoo!