With Musicmetric, Apple could provide its partner labels and artists on Beats Music with its own tool for tracking user engagement data.

The company behind the Beats by Dr. Dre line of headphones is being sued by the audio tech firm Monster, its erstwhile partner.

The new bop.fm Music Player app has some potential.

We're dreaming big for the New Year.

Beats cofounder and Apple employee Jimmy Iovine is “having fresh talks with artists about doing exclusives.”

Bose is apparently planning to take its rivalry with Apple's Beats beyond audio equipment and into music streaming.

Ready to listen to higher-quality music? Then take a look at Deezer and Tidal.

The competitor to Apple’s Beats Music is now offering new customers a three-month premium subscription for just $0.99.

Apple pulled the trigger on the $3 billion acquisition earlier this year.

The new change will take effect on Nov. 30.

Apple purchased the company for $3 billion in May.

A number of other Apple apps have also received some minor updates.

All fliers can listen to handpicked music from the service for free.

In September, the two competitors reported more downloads and revenue.

It's time for Apple to introduce an iTunes Music Extra subscription plan.

Apple has confirmed that the iTunes Store has suffered a decline in sales of digital music.

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Apple will reportedly relaunch Beats Music next year as part of iTunes.

Apple has acquired 20 companies so far this year, including seven companies it purchased during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2014.

Spotify and Apple are both making plans to lower the price of streaming music plans.

Apple is in talks with record labels to cut the prices of music streaming subscriptions ahead of its rebranding of Beats Music.

The timing could coincide with the Grammy Awards in February.

Apple acquired the service as part of its $3 billion purchase of Beats Electronics in May.