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Social will Make Google Music a Hit
With the release of Google Music, the company really showed how ingrained social services will be with their web products. Buying music on line is such a sterile experience and no one company has a completely cohesive experience. Apple tried to do it with Ping and Facebook is attempting it by hooking up with Spotify and Rdio. The difference is these companies have to work with other companies that provide a service. Google has the advantage of being a complete end to end solution for purchasing, playing, and sharing music.
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Google is Another step closer to Motorola Acquisition
Google and Motorola agreed on a 12.5 billion dollar merger just a couple of months ago, which was a huge deal. Everyone knew that was only the first step to Google owning Motorola. Now, we are one step closer because the shareholders for Motorola have approved the merger.
There were 74% of the shareholders available to vote, and it was an overwhelming 99% vote for yes. Google still has other regulatory issues to get past first, but from what it looks like now the acquisition will be taking place in the first half of 2012.
(via Android Community)
New Google Music Adds Plus Integration and Purchases
Google had it’s Google Music event today and everything happened that was expected and more. Google announced that, the new Google Music App will now allow purchases of music. Along with that it made mention of several partners that will have their music available for purchase in the Market.
Universal, Sony Music Entertainment, and EMI, were some of bigger partners and several others that are in also. 13 million tracks are said to be available soon, and 8 million are live today. Google is also working with several artist, like Coldplay, Busta Rhymes, Pearl Jam and more, to offer exclusive content for their music Market.
Along with the new Google Music additions, they integrated Google+ into the service. You will be able to share purchases and songs straight into your Google+ feed. The really cool thing is, if a friend shares a song you will be able to listen to the whole song and not just 90 second previews. This gives the incentive to share more and could push a lot more purchasing of music. It is good to see Google finally get over a hurdle they have had for a while.
Google Music Purchases Coming Soon?
Google Music has been going for a while now and everyone has been long awaiting the option to actually purchase music from some sort of store. Along with the option to upload your music and stream it. Now, screen shots have surfaced today that show the options to purchase music in the Market.
It looks very similar to the setup of the current Android Market and looks like there will even be a free song of the day. That is similar to what iTunes and Amazon does with free songs of the week/day. It shouldn’t be long before we hear something official on this being there is a Google Music event planned for Wednesday in Los Angeles. We are keeping our fingers crossed.
(via TechnoDroidVe)
