Bits: Amazon Introduces a Digital Music Locker

Erick Schonfeld submits: Apple (AAPL) is furiously negotiating with the record labels to finalize deals which will allow it to stream music from the Internet to mobile devices (iPhones, iPads, iPods) and computers.

Jimmy Iovine at the HP Event

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By Pierre Sookiew:Archos (ACOSF.PK) is a French consumer electronics company. Archos employs around 200 people and offers a variety of products, including digital audio players, portable video players, digital video recorders, a personal digital assistant, netbooks, and tablet computers using Google Android and Microsoft Windows.

brand-m: More than a quarter of Brits purchased downloads or streamed content (legally) in 2012, and 114 million albums and 938 million single tracks have been sold as digital downloads to date in the UK, according to the BPI’s Digital Music Nation 20

Amazon.com Inc. has catapulted ahead of its digital music competitors by starting a music locker service.