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Rumor: In lieu of upcoming iTuns music streaming service, music labels unlikely to accept prices under $9.99 per month

This is the cost of a company getting to be a certain size or have a certain influence on its surrounding industries. Apparently, Apple is unlikely to offer a free, ad-supported tier for its upcoming streaming music service. It also seemed like Apple was going to try to undercut competitors like Spotify by offering its […]

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Apple’s iOS App Store nets $10 billion in 2013

According to an announcement by Apple on Tuesday, the company took home more than $10 billion last year from iOS app sales. Christmas sales put them over the top with customers downloading almost 3 billion apps, making December Apple’s most lucrative and successful month in the App Store’s history. BusinessWire’s coverage of the record setting sales quoted […]

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Apple purchases Color Labs’ talent base for indeterminate price

Your favorite computer company bought up the talent, not the office supplies (including the trusty coffee maker) Per All Things D, Apple didn’t buy social video startup Color, but it did acquire its engineering team of about 20 employees for as much as $5 million. Disputing a rumor that surfaced on Wednesday claiming that Apple […]