Introducing Apple Music — All The Ways You Love Music. All in One Place.
SAN FRANCISCO ― June 8, 2015 ― Apple® today unveiled Apple Music™, a single, intuitive app that combines the best ways to enjoy music — all in one place. Apple Music is a revolutionary streaming music service, a pioneering worldwide live radio station from Apple broadcasting 24 hours a day and a great new way for music fans to connect with their favorite artists. Apple Music combines the largest and most diverse collection of music on...
Microsoft’s Surface sales up 29 percent, phones down 49 percent
On the whole, it wasn’t a great holiday quarter for Microsoft. Its revenues fell around 10 percent from last year (from $26.5 billion to $23.8 billion), while its net income fell around 15 percent (from $5.8 billion to $5 billion). Still, the company saw strong cloud growth, with Azure revenue up by 140 percent. Its overall Intelligent Cloud division revenue was up five percent. There were some pretty big gains in other...
Microsoft’s Surface sales up 29 percent, phones down 49 percent
On the whole, it wasn’t a great holiday quarter for Microsoft. Its revenues fell around 10 percent from last year (from $26.5 billion to $23.8 billion), while its net income fell around 15 percent (from $5.8 billion to $5 billion). Still, the company saw strong cloud growth, with Azure revenue up by 140 percent. Its overall Intelligent Cloud division revenue was up five percent. There were some pretty big gains in other...
Apple Introduces Best iPod touch Yet
CUPERTINO, California — July 15, 2015 — Apple® today introduced the best iPod touch® yet and unveiled a new lineup of colors for all iPod® models, including space gray, silver, gold, pink and blue. The ultra-portable iPod touch features a new 8 megapixel iSight® camera for beautiful photos, an improved FaceTime® HD camera for even better selfies, the Apple-designed A8 chip with 10 times faster graphics performance for a more immersive...
Amazon Prime memberships grew by over 50 percent in 2015
That strong international growth was mirrored in how customers are using Prime. Specifically, Prime Video streaming outside the US nearly doubled in Q4 2015 compared to a year ago. Even the fledgling Prime Music service (which still offers “only” 1 million songs, compared to the 35+ million that you’ll get with Spotify, Apple Music and most of their competitors) is starting to grow. Amazon said that streaming hours...
