Business Services Industry
Microsoft Decides to Enter World of Internet Music Sales.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, July, 2001
San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 13--Microsoft on Thursday jumped into the business of selling songs over the Internet, fueling the ongoing revolution in the way music is distributed and setting up a fierce battle between formidable rivals.
The move by the world's biggest software company pits Microsoft against AOL Time Warner and RealNetworks in the race to attract paying customers to download or stream music as new technologies make compact discs and other traditional recordings increasingly obsolete.
"We're at a tipping point for the downslide of the CD sale and the uptake of digital distribution of music," said Phil Leigh, digital media analyst for Raymond James & Associates.
In the next...
Most Recent Business Articles
- Multiple criteria evaluation and optimization of transportation systems
- Multi-criteria analysis procedure for sustainable mobility evaluation in urban areas
- A two-leveled multi-objective symbiotic evolutionary algorithm for the hub and spoke location problem
- Multi-criteria analysis for evaluating the impacts of intelligent speed adaptation
- The development of Taiwan arterial traffic-adaptive signal control system and its field test: a Taiwan experience
Most Recent Business Publications
Most Popular Business Articles
- 7 tips for effective listening: productive listening does not occur naturally. It requires hard work and practice - Back To Basics - effective listening is a crucial skill for internal auditors
- FAS 109: a primer for non-accountants - Financial Accounting Standards Board's "Statement 109: Accounting for Income Taxes"
- LIFO vs. FIFO: a return to the basics
- Too Young to Rent a Car? - 25-years-old the minimum age for car renting - Brief Article
- Design a commission plan that drives sales - Sales Commissions
