DENVER (Billboard) - Think last year's acquisitions of iLike, imeem and Lala marked the end of consolidation for digital music services? Think again. Gradually thawing credit markets and an increasingly competitive digital music landscape could make 2010 a banner year for mergers and acquisitions. Apple's purchase of Lala in December lends a greater degree of legitimacy to the "cloud-based ...

Ford Motor Co. is adding Twitter messages and Internet radio to its in-car entertainment and communication service, known as Sync, and suggests that the voice-activated system is safer for drivers than trying to manipulate applications on their cell phones. Ford CEO Alan Mulally told an audience at the International Consumer ...

Popular Internet radio service Pandora on Monday confirmed it is getting millions of dollars in new funding in the wake of clinching a deal on music royalty rates. Greylock Partners is investing a reported 35 million dollars in Pandora, which is based in the city of Oakland across the bay from San Francisco. "The team at Pandora is really passionate ...