Yahoo has renamed its online music service Yahoo Music. The service had been operating under the brand name Launch, which was acquired by Yahoo in 2001. But now, Yahoo wants to showcase all its music products and services under a single brand, the company said. The service already has begun operating with a new logo. Yahoo Music offers streaming audio, …

Fee-based digital music is gaining popularity among downloaders in the United States, according to market research company Ipsos-Insight. Related story The company is putting$30 million in marketingbehind a new Microsoft-backed “portable”subscription service. About 47 percent of people who downloaded music in December and who were age 12 or older paid a fee to do so, the market researcher said. That’s …

MP3tunes.com introduced its digital music service on Wednesday, offering 300,000 songs at 88 cents each from mostly independent and unsigned artists. As earlier reported, the new download service is the brainchild of Michael Robertson, current chief executive of Linux software company Linspire and Net-calling service SIPphone. His creation of MP3.com in 1997 helped establish the online digital music business. MP3tunes.com …