By Suzanne Choney
Google, which announced its own cloud-based music service in May, is also planning to starts its own online music store that would compete with Amazon and Apple, according to reports.a
The New York Times said Thursday that according to "numerous music executives," the store would "most likely be connected to Google’s existing cloud service, Music Beta, which lets people back up their songs on remote servers and stream them to mobile phones and other devices, said these executives, who all spoke on condition of anonymity because the talks were private and continuing."a
Google would reportedly start the service even before it has the rights to sell songs from some of the biggest labels, "according to people familiar with the matter," said The Wall Street Journal:a
According to these people, all four of the major music companies have held talks to license their catalogs to Google for the new online store. But only the smallest, Citigroup Inc.'s EMI Group, is close to a deal, they said.a
Google and record labels declined comment to the Times, which noted that Google may aspire to get online store going before Apple starts its new cloud-based music service called "iTunes Match," expected to available by the end of this month.a
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