Seattle - Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN) has acquired Amie Street, the operator of a digital music store that featured dynamic pricing, based on relative demand for a particular song.read more

London - The People's Music Store, a U.K.-based firm that let consumers operate their own digital music stores, has announced plans to shutter the service at the end of the week, Music Ally reports, citing an email from the company.read more

Los Angeles - Deutsche Telekom's exclusive carrier agreement for its T-Mobile to distribute Apple's (NASD: AAPL) iPhone in Germany is close to expiring, and has not been renewed, The Wall Street Journal reported. Apple is said to be in talks with rivals Vodafone and O2, with deals expected to be in place so that those carriers will begin selling the iPhone by the fall. read more

Berlin - Korean electronics firm Samsung on Thursday introduced the Galaxy Tab, a new tablet computer that the company says is just as good as Apple's iPad. "Honestly, I don't see anything it that is weaker than the iPad," W.P. Wong, head of Samsung Mobile's product planning team, told reporters at the IFA trade show in Berlin.read more

San Francisco - The National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) told Apple (NASD: AAPL) that it must negotiate licenses with publishers and songwriters before it increases the length of streaming song samples at its iTunes Store from 30 to 90 seconds, CNET News.com reported.read more