America Online announced on Thursday that it has acquired MusicNow. With the technology of the Chicago-based online music service, which Circuit City Stores bought in 2004, the Time Warner Internet company plans to revamp its music customization and personalization features. AOL will gradually upgrade its current MusicNet AOL subscribers to a new service, called AOL Music Now. Competition among online …

With competition on the rise, America Online buys MusicNow, MySpace starts a record label and Napster gets a boost from Samsung. AOL’s got MusicNow Time Warner’s America Online acquires company in a move to revamp its music customization, personalization features. November 3, 2005 MySpace.com creates own record label Networking site, recently acquired by News Corp., expects its popularity among musicians …

Apple Computer’s biggest competitors in the digital music downloading market are illegal music file-sharing services such as Kazaa and BitTorrent, said iTunes Vice President Eddy Cue. On the day Apple launched the Australian version of its music store iTunes, Cue said that people now have an alternative to illegally downloading music and that he believes they are willing to pay …