Buy Sirius XM Stock, Or Wait for Spotify?; How Streaming Music Redefined an Industry

"While litigation can be an important tool, it often takes a long time and the results are unclear," says Steve Marks. "Solutions between business and industry partners can clear a path through thorny legal issues."

Spotify could be an exciting offering, but Sirius XM Holdings (SIRI) is right here, right now -- and could be even better with Pandora (P).

Facebook is looking to develop a copyright identification system to make it easier for rightsholders to get compensated for their work on the platform -- with licensing deals with the major labels soon to follow.

Super Audio CD (SACD) was introduced in 1999 by Philips and Sony, its co-inventors, as the next generation of consumer audio, featuring six channels of Direct Stream Digital (DSD), the highest resolution then available to home listeners.

The way we listen to music has been changing for years: iPods replaced Walkmans, playlists replaced albums, and streaming services replaced shopping for

Although rumors have been flying about Spotify's potential purchase of SoundCloud for quite some time, it looks as though any hopes of such an acquisition have been dashed. Here we look at why.

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Atlantic Records is releasing a compilation of recent songs that have inspired silly dance crazes, but the album is also a strategic experiment to save a highly-profitable format in the era of streaming music.

Warner Music Group (WMG) has announced a new senior management structure for the company’s technology and data areas.