On Monday, Shares of Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL), lost -1.12% to $106.82.
Apple Inc. Trademarks For Beats 2,3,4,5 Hint At New Apple Music Radio Stations
Beats 1 may only be the beginning for Apple Music’s push into the online radio space. Beats Electronics — an Apple Inc. subsidiary — applied for several service marks pertaining to station names “Beats 2” through “Beats 5” as well as logos B2 through B5, according to U.S. Patent and Trademark office applications spotted by French blog Consomac., according to International Business Times
Currently, Beats 1 is the only radio station offered through the Apple Music streaming audio service and features a mixture of pre-recorded content and live shows from DJs across the world such as Zane Lowe in Los Angeles, Ebro Darden in New York and Julie Adenuga in London. While there’s a variety of genres of music played on Beats 1, the majority of music has tended to skew towards hip-hop, according to an analysis of Beats 1 data by Quartz.
Access to Beats 1 is free for anyone with the Apple Music app on iOS or Android. But Apple also offers a paid subscription to customers, which gives access to a streaming catalog of about 43 million songs. Paid subscribers reached 6.5 million users in October, according to Apple CEO Tim Cook. That number is forecasted to come in just under 8 million users by the end of 2015, according to MIDiA research cited by Fortune.
Apple Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, and portable digital music players to consumers, small and mid-sized businesses, education, and enterprise and government customers worldwide. The company also sells related software, services, accessories, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications.
Shares of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), inclined 0.87% to $105.93, during its last trading session.
Facebook Inc. founder, Mark Zuckerberg, on Monday fired another salvo in the company’s marketing blitz for its controversial Free Basics Internet service that has faced opposition in India, home to the world’s largest offline population, according to WSJ
In an opinion piece published in the Times of India, the country’s biggest-selling English-language daily, Mr. Zuckerberg defended his company’s Free Basics service, which provides free, but limited, Internet access.
He compared Free Basics to a library—which houses only a selection of books—as well as to public healthcare and education.
“Everyone also deserves access to the tools and information that can help them to achieve all those other public services, and all their fundamental social and economic rights. That’s why everyone also deserves access to free basic Internet services,” Mr. Zuckerberg wrote.
Free Basics allows users to access a small number of Web services without charge.
The service has been criticized by people who say it violates the principle of net neutrality, a concept that all Internet traffic should be treated equally. WSJ Report
Facebook, Inc. is a social networking company. The Company is engaged in developing products that enables users to connect and share through mobile devices and personal computers. It offers various services focused on people, marketers and developers. It offers various platforms for people to share their opinions, ideas, photos and videos, and to engage in other activities. Its products comprise Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp.
Finally, Shares of Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG), ended its last trade with 1.89% gain, and closed at $762.51.
Google has filed patents for a new version of its formerly sidelined Glass device with the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), revealing that it is ongoing to work on development and release of the wearable, according to Zdnet
The tech giant filed photos, internal photos, test reports, test setup photos, a user manual, a request for confidentiality, and information on radio frequency absorption for the device, dubbed GG1, with the FCC.
According to the user manual, the power button is positioned on the back of the device.
“The plastic cube just above your right eye allows you to interact with the device. The Home Screen is your starting point. By default, the display shows you the current time,” the document explains.
“The camera button is located on top of the device near the display. Press the camera button to take a photo. Hold it down to record a video. The green light shows when the camera is on.”
The flat area along the side is the touchpad, which Google says is used to navigate through what it calls “cards” on the device’s display. Zdnet Report
Alphabet Inc., through its auxiliaries, builds technology products and provides services to organize the information. The company offers Google Search that provides information online; Google Now that offers information to users when they need it; AdWords, an auction-based advertising program; AdSense, which enables Websites that are part of the Google network to deliver ads; DoubleClick Ad Exchange, a marketplace for the trading display ad space; and other advertising platforms, such as AdExchange and AdMob.
