Katie Benner, Columnist

Benner on Tech: Apple Gets Into the Music-Streaming Game

Katie Benner’s roundup of the most interesting things in tech, today.

June 2, 2015 at 2:27 PM UTC

Katie Benner is a Bloomberg View columnist who writes about technology, innovation, and the cult and culture of Silicon Valley. She lives in San Francisco. Benner previously wrote a tech and finance column for the Information. She has worked at Fortune, TheStreet.com and CNN Money, and was a freelance writer based in China covering culture, business and politics. She has a bachelor's degree in English from Bowdoin College.

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The Wall Street Journal says Apple will unveil its music streaming service at next week’s developers’ conference. Like Spotify, it will offer unlimited streaming for $10 a month. Unlike Spotify, Apple won’t have an ad-supported free tier that gives listeners access to the service’s entire catalog. Instead, Apple will offer a free, ad-supported radio option that will be hosted by real DJs.