Coke Enters the Music Business: Wal-Mart, iTunes, Microsoft, and now Coke?
Coca-Cola is launching an Internet music download service in Britain next month, the first consumer brand to jump into Europe’s crowded Internet music market, the company said on Monday.The soft drinks maker said that in January it will begin selling music downloads from a catalog of 250,000 songs supplied from each of the five major music labels.
Microsoft to Give Music a Whirl: This market is getting awfully crowded. Microsoft plans to introduce a song-downloading service next year that will compete with similar offerings from Apple Computer, Roxio's Napster and others. News of the service was first reported Monday by The Wall Street Journal. A company spokeswoman confirmed that…
Wal-Mart to launch online music service: There's nothing anyone can sell that Wal-Mart can't sell cheaper. Wal-Mart Stores is looking to its core customer base with its new online music service, offering a library of largely country music songs for less than the 99-cent per download industry standard.