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Apple paid $ 3 billion for headphone and streaming music company Beats Electronics to try to play catch - up in the shift away from downloading music, said a leading Silicon Valley venture capitalist.

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Apple Music has its roots in Beats Music, which came to the company through a hardware acquisition.

Apple executive and Beats founder Jimmy Iovine had hinted in an interview earlier this summer that the company would be selectively interested in additional original content for its Apple Music subscription streaming service.

His music holdings also include investments in emerging - technology companies such as Spotify and Beats Electronics.

In a sign of how important Beats is in reshaping Apple's digital music, the company has made a musician a point man for overhauling the iPhone's music app to include the streaming music service, as opposed to an engineer.

The music streaming company's quarterly results beat expectations, but its guidance fell short and listener hours fell in June.

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The HTC Sensation XL is the second handset to feature Dr Dre Beats functionality and headphones, since the partnership with the music company was announced in August — with the Sensation XE being the first phone.

If the deal solidifies and finalizes, this new relationship for Google wouldn't come long after Apple paid $ 3 billion for Beats (with $ 500 million of that price directed toward the streaming component), a company often praised for having strong curation in their music streaming app.

No one really complained too much, not at least the big music guys, when iTunes was selling 90 percent of music files, but when Amazon has 60 or 70 or 80 percent of the market, all the publishers see Amazon as evil, something to beat down, not as a company to co-ordinate with and to work with and help make the industry grow.

But on a grander note, the technology could erase a string of Microsoft's embarrassing failures with mobile phones, music players, tablets and even Windows from consumers» minds and provide a redemptive beat for the company.

Investors and consumers alike have also been waiting for the company to dive deeper into the music streaming space after buying Beats Music for $ 3 billion last music streaming space after buying Beats Music for $ 3 billion last Music for $ 3 billion last year.

The company only acquired Beats Electronics, launched Apple Music (including on Android), and opened up its MFi (Made For) licensing program to include headphones that use its proprietary Lightning port.

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Even Apple, which typically shuns big deals and doesn't even disclose many smaller acquisitions, bought its own chip design company, P.A. Semi; Beats, the headphone maker and music service; and Siri, the voice - controlled assistant service.

Iovine, if you recall, joined the Cupertino - based company in mid-2014 alongside music producer and rapper Dr. Dre as part of its $ 3 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics.

After the famously secretive company bought Beats Music in 2014 it took almost a year for it to release its own Apple Music streaming service and Beats One radio.

Before the company launched Apple Music it bought Beats, the eponymous headphone maker, for $ 3.2 billion.

Iovine, who joined Apple in 2014 when the company acquired Beats, helped lead the development of its streaming music service.

It also gives Apple an on - demand streaming music service via Beats Music, which the company has previously been hesitant to do for fear that it would cannibalize digital download sales on iTmusic service via Beats Music, which the company has previously been hesitant to do for fear that it would cannibalize digital download sales on iTMusic, which the company has previously been hesitant to do for fear that it would cannibalize digital download sales on iTunes.

When Apple made it's $ 3 billion purchase of headphone maker Beats in 2014, its founders Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre joined the company as executives, overseeing the Apple Music and Beats 1 audio services.

Beats Audio, the company behind the popular Beats by Dr. Dre line of over-ear and in - hear headphones, is reportedly planning to acquire subscription music service MOG.

Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC is the majority owner of Beats, and the deal could open the door for a subscription music service built right into the company's Sense user interface.

The company says in a support page that all the existing subscriptions on Beats Music will be cancelled from November 30 and an option to move song selections and preferences to Apple Music has just been released to provide a smooth transition.

The company used Beats resources in developing Apple Music that was launched with iOS 8.4 on June 30.

Bain beat a host of competitors to buy Gymboree, a company whose roots go back to 1976 when it opened play and music centers for children.