The long awaited Apple Music, the iPhone and iPad maker’s move into the streaming music business, has finally arrived.

Meerkat and Periscope, the new category of mobile apps that allows users to live stream videos in real time, are allegedly a “new form of piracy.”

The telecom juggernauts are taking over. This was confirmed in May with US telecom goliath Verizon’s proposed US$4.4bn merger with AOL.

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