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Rhapsody

Rhapsody targets the living room on TVs and Xbox Live

Rhapsody is expanding its presence to the living room, rolling out its digital music service to LG, Panasonic and Samsung… Read More

Paul McCartney returns to streaming music sites

In February, we reported that Paul McCartney had pulled his music from streaming sites, like Rhapsody, Spotify and Rdio. It… Read More

Open secret: Rhapsody tops $35 million in quarterly revenue, gets closer to profit

Rhapsody, the subscription music service based in downtown Seattle, has been a private company since spinning off from RealNetworks as… Read More

Paul McCartney jets from streaming music services; Rhapsody calls it a ‘shock’

Paul McCartney appears to be a “Band on the Run” … at least when it comes to popular music streaming… Read More

Look out, Spotify? Rhapsody expands to Europe with Napster International deal

The expansion of European music service Spotify to the U.S. last year brought considerable hand-wringing over the potential impact on… Read More

Rhapsody tops 1M paying subscribers, and its president has the shaved head to prove it

Rhapsody says it has surpassed 1 million paying subscribers — leveraging its MetroPCS partnership, its recent acquisition of Napster and… Read More

Rhapsody marks decade in business as it absorbs Napster

Ten years ago this weekend, on Dec. 3, 2001, the Rhapsody music service was launched by Listen.com, pioneering the concept… Read More

Rhapsody president on surprise Napster acquisition: ‘We’ve got a lot of wind in our sails’

Rhapsody’s acquisition of Napster from Best Buy gives the Seattle-based music service an opportunity to add a “meaningful” number of… Read More

Breaking: Rhapsody to buy Napster from Best Buy

Rhapsody, the Seattle-based music service that spun out of RealNetworks last year, will buy venerable music service Napster from retailer… Read More

Microsoft Zune cuts price, moves away from monthly song credits

Microsoft’s Zune music service today announced plans to reduce its monthly subscription rate to $9.99, from the current $14.99, but… Read More

Rhapsody gets more social, tunes into Facebook friends

Rhapsody is rolling out a new slate of social features today, including the ability for users to create profile pages,… Read More

Rhapsody lands MetroPCS deal, bundling music service with monthly mobile plan

Rhapsody has struck a deal with MetroPCS Communications to make the Rhapsody Unlimited Music service a new feature of the… Read More

Amazon, Rhapsody tangled up by Apple’s rules, remove store links from iPhone and iPad apps

Seattle-based Rhapsody and Amazon Kindle are among a wave of businesses that have removed links to their external digital stores… Read More

Spotify arrives: The music service we’ve been waiting for?

Intrigued by all the hype surrounding the U.S. launch of the Spotify music service, I ponied up a $9.99 monthly… Read More

As Spotify plots U.S. invasion, Rhapsody fires some shots of its own and touts growth

It seems like years since Spotify first discussed plans to come to the U.S. Now, word is that the highly-touted… Read More

Despite competition from Amazon, Rhapsody and others, Pandora soars in stock market debut

Meet the country’s newest multi-billion dollar Internet company. It is Pandora, the music radio service which went public today with… Read More

Apple’s iCloud: Photo Stream is slick, iTunes Match is a half-step

For all the buzz about Apple offering its own cloud-based music service, the part of the company’s iCloud announcement today… Read More

Rhapsody to Google and Amazon: We’ve been doing music lockers since you were little kids

Cloud-based music lockers are all of the rage these days, with Google and Amazon.com recently launching new services and Apple… Read More

Spotify trims free music in Europe: A preview for U.S.?

The popular Spotify music service is making headlines in Europe this morning with new limits on its signature offering —… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: Allen vs. Gates, Amazon Cloud Drive, Giant Thinkwell +1

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we recap a strange week in tech news, including our first glimpse of Paul… Read More

Q&A: Rhapsody rebounding after RealNetworks spinoff

Rhapsody International, on its own now for a full year, has added more than 100,000 new subscribers over the past… Read More

Rhapsody so far avoiding Apple’s 30%, ‘hopeful’ about resolving subscription dustup

An updated version of Rhapsody’s app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad was made available for download today. Yes, the… Read More

Rhapsody app debuts on Windows Phone, in beta

Rhapsody has quietly released the beta of its app for Windows Phone 7, bringing its subscription-based music service to the… Read More

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