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Apple Hikes Price Of Apple Music, Apple TV+

Apple users in the US and UK will have to pay a little bit more per month for their favourite streaming service

Deezer to use funds from July IPO in Paris to expand into Germany in partnership with RTL as it seeks to replicate success in France and Brazil

Thanks for memories. Apple confirms that after 21 years, it will discontinue its original music player device – the Apple iPod

Mac

App Store and other Apple services are back online after outages over a two day period, reportedly being blamed on a DNS issue

Amsterdam-based Primephonic is acquired by tech giant Apple, as the iPhone maker seeks to expand its classical music offering

Apple continues its move into the services segment with a bundled subscription package called Apple One, plus the Fitness+ virtual fitness service

Mac

Where is my music? Goodbye iTunes, after latest Catalina update for Apple Mac users

Users of Apple services around the world suffer disruption on Tuesday, but services are now restored

Spotify accused Apple of misusing its dominant iPhone App Store to charge a 'tax' on rival music services

Cloud

Apple's popular music service, said to be neck-in-neck with Spotify in the US, debuts on Amazon's smart speakers in mid-December

Cloud

Competition officials fear Apple could use data from Shazam to place rival streaming services at a 'competitive disadvantage'

UPDATED: Apple 'confirms' acquisition of music identification app Shazam in move that could boost Apple Music

EE extends free Apple Music offer and says streaming will no longer count towards monthly data allowances

Apple Music makes its long-awaited debut, but what do the experts think about the latest entrant into the streaming market?

Spotify snaps up analytics specialist Seed Scientific, which previously worked for Apple's Beats Music

Legal

Investigation opens into whether Apple pressured record labels into giving new music service an unfair advantage against rivals like Spotify

Read what the critics are saying about Apple's WWDC announcements