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...While Google operates a technically “open” app ecosystem, licensing Android to smartphone makers which can in theory offer rival stores, Apple has an end-to-end “closed” model where it offers iOS exclusively...
...Spotify launched in 2008, Apple Music in 2015 and Amazon Music Unlimited in 2016....
...In Europe, an Amazon-backed trade group for the cloud computing industry has repeatedly taken aim at Microsoft, calling out what it deems to be uncompetitive licensing contracts surrounding “enterprise software...
...Google of using its immense bargaining power to stifle competition, focusing on the internet group’s requirement that smartphone makers sign an “anti-fragmentation agreement” as a precondition for app store licensing...
...We don’t think Apple does either. Or phonemakers. Or developers. Or users.”...
...Mr Kulkarni said the sector would become more like “Apple v Samsung”, where biotechs competed on adding generation after generation of features....
...Additional reporting by Tim Bradshaw Apple v Qualcomm: two years of conflict January 2017 US Federal Trade Commission sues Qualcomm, alleging monopolistic behaviour and charging of excessive licence fees...
...Disney’s event comes a few weeks after Apple made a splashy presentation for its own streaming service featuring Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg. Unlike Apple, Disney did not bring out the stars....
...After a years-long stand-off with the big music companies, YouTube struck fresh licensing agreements last year. Music executives are cautiously optimistic....
...(Apple, which does not license its iOS operating system and App Store to rivals, was not considered a competitor to Android.)...
...Two years ago, she ordered that Ireland claw back €13bn in back taxes from rival Apple....
...It depicts the licensing terms as minimum requirements to ensure Android works smoothly on different devices....
...Spotify’s vast catalogue of 30m songs due to its licensing deals with Sony, Warner and Universal allows users to access practically any song they want....
...If even 1 per cent of Facebook’s users signed up to pay for a music service, it would be about the same size as Apple Music....
...Thanks to a series of court rulings since the mid-2000s, such as eBay v MercExchange in 2007, Mayo Collaborative Services v Prometheus Laboratories in 2012 and Alice Corp v CLS Bank in 2014, and the subsequent...
...Spotify’s closest rival, Apple Music, has 20m paying subscribers, providing the most lucrative streaming customer for record companies....
...Internet streaming will become the largest source of global recorded music sales this year as revenues from services including Spotify and Apple Music surpass sales of CDs and vinyl records for the first...
...Lingering paranoia from the Napster shakeout has made licensing negotiations with labels “slow and tough”, says one streaming executive....
...Spotify remains the market leader, this week reaching 40m paying customers, with Apple Music last week announcing it had hit 17m paying users....
...Meanwhile the biggest record labels, weighed down by shrinking album sales, are in a row with YouTube as they negotiate new licensing terms with the site....
...The deal comes as the big record labels, plagued by years of shrinking album sales, are in a stand-off with YouTube as they look to create new licensing terms with the world’s biggest streaming music platform...
...And in a David v Goliath dispute, a 32-year-old man from Wales won a lawsuit against Apple over a crack in his Apple Watch Sport, which he noticed 10 days after he bought it in July....
...The biggest uncertainty is an impending decision by the US Copyright Review Board on licensing rates for the next five years....
...Besides losing a key Samsung contract, it has almost no foothold in the iPhone, putting it at a disadvantage as Apple has grown its market share and Apple and Samsung between them have accounted for a bigger...
...But antitrust authorities in the US are investigating the company’s licensing negotiations with music labels over the new service....
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