28 new countries around the world get Amazon Music Unlimited and Echo devices

You can stream your favorite tunes on Amazon Music Unlimited and have Echo smart speakers shipped to a bunch of new global territories.

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Amazon Music Unlimited subscriptions go half off to $4.99 a month for ‘eligible students’

Just like Apple Music and Spotify, Amazon Music Unlimited memberships now include a student-exclusive tier available for $4.99 a month instead of $9.99.

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US-based HTC U11 buyers can get three months of free Amazon Music Unlimited service

As deal sweeteners go, three months of Amazon Music Unlimited streaming instead of one isn't so remarkable. But the HTC U11 is very attractive anyway.

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Hundreds of thousands of Amazon Prime Day deals are coming on July 11, some are already live

The third annual Amazon Prime Day event promises to eclipse its predecessors, expanding to 13 countries, lasting 30 hours and saving you tons of money.

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Amazon Music Unlimited audio streaming service quickly spreads to the UK, Germany and Austria

The busiest time of year for Amazon’s main area of expertise has officially kicked off both on American and British shores, but the e-commerce giant isn’t pausing its increasingly ambitious efforts to gain more relevance in various hardware and software segments either.

Fire tablets and Echo smart speakers should sell like hotcakes this holiday season, and alongside them, Amazon hopes to also boost Prime memberships and especially early Music Unlimited adoption.

Not entirely satisfied with Spotify or Apple Music’s bang for buck in the US, UK, Germany or Austria? “Premium” Amazon Music Unlimited monthly service costs as little as $3.99 stateside for a good few weeks now, expanding to the other three aforementioned markets today at similarly irresistible prices.

Namely, £3.99 a month in Great Britain for use on a single Echo or Echo Dot, £7.99 as far as Prime customers with phones, tablets or PCs are concerned, and £9.99 for everyone else. Across the board, you’ll be getting 24/7, uninterrupted access to a rich library of over 40 million songs and thousands of hand-curated playlists and personalized stations “not just at the tips of your fingers, but also on the tip of your tongue.”

Yup, in case you forgot, the other global Amazon Music Unlimited key selling point is Alexa. You can ask your own personal assistant for a hands-free selection of “party music”, for instance, “happy music” or even search and play that song that goes “I was doing just fine before I met you.”

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Significant Apple Music price cuts are reportedly ‘under serious discussion’

Apple may still afford to keep profit margins at sky-high levels most competitors can’t even begin to dream of when it comes to mobile or wearable hardware, but as far as music streaming services are concerned, the race to the bottom could soon get to the Cupertino-based tech giant too.

Amazon Music Unlimited seeks to disrupt a cutthroat scene where prices nonetheless appeared to stabilize, treating Prime subscribers to essentially the same “premium” content as Apple Music or Spotify at $8 a month instead of $10, further dropping the rate to an irresistible $4 for Echo smart speaker users.

While Apple is yet to decide on a counterattack maneuver, a “pair of sources working closely with the streaming service” claim a general price trim of up to 20 percent is “under serious discussion.” This could well materialize “as soon as this Christmas, and possibly start with a holiday promotional discount” before taking a permanent nature.

If the rumors are right, a single Apple Music license would slip from $9.99 to $7.99, whereas family packages should themselves shave 2 bucks off to a new $12.99 monthly fee. The 90-day free trial window would be retained, and although Apple’s record label expenses are to remain the same with potentially shrinking revenues in the short term, the long-haul goal of fending off Amazon and Spotify is probably far more important.

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Amazon Music Unlimited rival for Spotify and Apple Music could be mere weeks away

Amazon’s almost instantaneous answer to Google’s increasingly ambitious Alexa-contending moves, as well as Apple’s rumored Echo challenger? Since the e-commerce giant’s intelligent personal assistant remains a venerated industry pacesetter, especially as far as home ...

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