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WEB/TECH: New Round in Apple and Amazon Music Fight

Billboard is reporting that Apple has started to push back against music labels that have worked out exclusive deals with Amazon in exchange for being featured on the online retailers MP3 Daily Deal. In some cases, the labels provide Amazon with new music a day before its sold elsewhere, and the labels push marketing around the Web. The music then gets promoted at the top of the Amazon music download page. The tiff between the media giants reportedly goes back to the fall of 2009, when Amazon s...

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23:50 on March 3 2010

WEB/TECH: New Round in Apple and Amazon Music Fight

All About Jazz — Billboard is reporting that Apple has started to push back against music labels that have worked out exclusive deals with Amazon in exchange for being featured on the onl... more info

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