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Since I’ve been at Mashable, my track record with year-end predictions has been pretty good. That’s probably because rather than making wild and sexy pontifications about what will happen in the year ahead (but almost certainly will not), I tend to just look at the trends of the past year and ma...

Nick Crocker is MD of Native Digital and co-founder of We Are Hunted. It seems as though the first era of digital music may have come to an end. Napster died, P2P lived in some black market twilight zone, streaming services on ad-supported revenue were suffocated by unsustainably high licensi...

Update: Both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal's AllThingsD report that this is a done deal. This is still officially in rumor status at this point, but reportedly two independent sources told CNet that Apple is close to acquiring Lala, a streaming digital music service and storef...