Best Buy, the largest US consumer electronics retailer, is acquiring Napster, the music download provider, for $121m as it seeks to establish itself as a significant player in the global market for mobile devices and digital services.
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16 September 2008
Amazon has announced a video-on-demand streaming service in the US as internet and consumer electronics companies try to match the capabilities of US cable and satellite providers. The internet retailer said that advertising-free movies and television shows could be watched instantly within a...
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05 September 2008
Apple's multi-prong strategy, hatched in the tough times from 2001 to 2003, is now paying off handsomely. In those difficult days when revenues stayed stubbornly flat, and margins hovered around zero, Apple re-invented its core Mac range of computers, and launched the iPod and iTunes to become a...
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31 March 2008