Apple negotiated with Facebook for more than 18 months to launch Ping, its new music social network. The talks were crucial, though ultimately unsuccessful, for Apple, which aimed to create a vibrant ...

Ping, Apple's largely ignored attempt at a music-focused social network, is officially shutting down Sept. 30. During Apple's media event Wednesday, Apple introduced a redesigned iTunes interface for ...

The attempt at a social network by the tech-giant-turned-music-distributor debuted in September 2010, but the service fell flat and the company has since changed its social-music strategy. By William ...

As worldwide attention focuses on Apple’s problem-riddled Maps app, another Apple miscue is about to be quietly put to rest. This month, Apple’s iTunes music social network -- Ping -- began displaying ...

You'd think that getting a million people to sign up for a social networking site within 48 hours of going live would be unqualified success. But if the company is Apple (AAPL) and the service is Ping ...

Some details about Apple products are still trickling out after all the hoopla earlier today, and one late-afternoon announcement revealed that Ping, Apple's erstwhile social network, has been marked ...

September 1, 2010: Apple’s new music-focused social network, Ping, ships as part of iTunes 10. Apple says the service will let users discover new music and more easily follow their favorite artists.

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Yesterday, Steve Jobs boasted of iTunes’ 160 million users when introducing Ping, Apple’s new social music network. But anyone wading into the service this morning will find an empty community save a ...

That was fast. Apple said Friday it has signed up more than one million users for the Ping music discovery service the company launched Wednesday. The service lets users follow friend and celebrities, ...

You can ping a lost Apple Watch from your iPhone, thanks to iOS 17 and watchOS 10. The reverse has always been a cool feature of the Apple Watch, helping you find a lost iPhone you left somewhere ...

Apple's much bally-hooed iTunes social network is becoming overrun by spam. Comment spam is an increasing nuisance, but security firm Sophos notes that Apple didn't consider the problems when it ...