After introducing a cloud music service with arguably-limited capabilities, Google is in negotiations with the major record labels to expand that service and also open an MP3 store that would compete with Apple and Amazon.
The new service would most likely be connected to Google’s existing cloud service, "Music Beta," which lets people back up their songs on remote servers and stream them to mobile phones and other devices.
Friday, October 14, 2011
Google Getting into the Cloud Music Business?
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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