- iTunes has sold more than 25 billion songs, 15,000 downloaded every minute Music lovers have purchased and downloaded more than 25 billion songs from the iTunes Store, Apple, as creators of "the world's most popular online music, TV and movie store", announced recently.
- Apple releases standalone Podcasts app Apple has just released a standalone and appropriately named Podcasts app, describing it as the "easiest way to discover, subscribe to and play your favourite podcasts" on mobile.
- Netflix and new Apple TV play well together The Netflix experience on Apple TV just got simpler. With yesterday's Apple TV 3 announcement, would-be Netflix users can now sign-up for the service directly on their Apple TV device and pay via their iTunes account.
- iTunes Match now available in Ireland, Germany, United Kingdom and others A little over one month since launching initially in the United States, and Brazil a few days ago, iTunes Match is now available in a number of new countries, including Australia, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and possibly unconfirmed others.
- iTunes Match now available, enables users to access entire music library across Apple devices With the release of iTunes 10.5.1 earlier today, Apple's long-anticipated iTunes Match is finally here. iTunes Match is a paid-for service that gives Apple device users access to their entire music library anywhere using iCloud.
- YouTube to begin selling merchandise, music and concert tickets YouTube has announced plans to allow artists to begin selling merchandise, music and concert tickets directly within their own YouTube channel. The video sharing site also revealed that they receive a massive 800 million visits per month.
- Apple opens-up iTunes Store and iBookstore to other European countries ahead of iPhone 5 announcement Apple has expanded the availability of the iTunes Store to 12 more countries in the European Union (EU). This now means that iTunes users in all 27 member states can make purchases on the digital media store.
- Both BBC iPlayer iPad and Android apps now live The long anticipated BBC iPlayer iPad and Android apps have finally arrived earlier today. Response has so far been subdued, with most complaining that the apps don’t bring anything new to the table. Nevertheless, we checked out the iPad version and were quite impressed.