Early reaction to yesterday's announcement of Apple's iCloud digital locker and iTunes Match has been mixed. Some focused on how iTunes Match essentially legitimizes illegally downloaded music. Others were disappointed. Continue reading

Apple’s new free iCloud and $24.99 a year iTunes Match, "marries the two disparate ideas of consumer convenience and the monetization of pirated music, providing what could be the 'missing. Continue reading

Early in today's presentation at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference, Steve Jobs dropped impressive new stats including 15 billion songs sold on iTunes and 225 million accounts with credit cards on. Continue reading

At about 10AM PT today, Steve Jobs will take the stage at Apple's WWDC2011 to announce the company's latest products.  (We'll be tweeting developments live @hypebot and follow with a. Continue reading

(UPDATED) Pandora has filed an updated S-1 that shows they will be pricing stock at $7 to $9 per share during its IPO on the The New York Stock Exchange.. Continue reading

(UPDATE 2) Apple has added a deal with Universal to the other three other major label agreements it reached earlier, as it readies an official Monday launch of it's iCloud. Continue reading

(UPDATED) Apple CEO Steve Jobs has confirmed as the kickoff keynote for the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, June 6 at 10 AM PST.  In a morning press. Continue reading

(UPDATED) Google and Apple both recently launched cloud music services without licenses from labels and publishers. The result for both are online music storage services rather than a multi-featured cloud. Continue reading