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Samsung want you to listen to them. To its music services, that is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The Koreans are about to up the ante on its software business, a senior exec has indicated, and plans to unleash brand new services for 2013.<\/p>\n

“We’re preparing new services for launch early next year. With these offerings, people will start to think Samsung is good in software, too,” Kang Tae-jin, Samsung senior VP of Media Solution, told Reuters. <\/a><\/p>\n

However, what exactly some of these ‘services’ are remains a mystery. <\/p>\n

But the world’s No. 1 phone maker, Samsung, is getting set to buy mobile content providers, and aims to become among the top 4 music content services within 3 years. <\/p>\n

“The message we’re getting from the top is to raise software capability, and buy rather than build, if needed.” <\/p>\n

The move would not be to make money per se, but rather support its hardware operation–including its line of Galaxy smartphones and Tabs–and create a seamless, fully integrated software and hardware system for Samsung’s millions of users. <\/p>\n

“Our focus on software is primarily aimed at driving hardware sales, rather than making money. We have a full range of handsets in so many countries, and, to better market our products, we thought it’s better to start our own software business,” Kang said. <\/p>\n

The move would also give Samsung a leg up against arch rival Apple, who has its own well established iTunes and rumoured to launch its own Pandora style streaming service<\/a>, with hundreds of Internet-based radio stations streamed from the cloud. <\/p>\n

Just two weeks ago, Apple announced a brand new iTunes featuring a redesigned player and integration with iCloud. <\/p>\n

But its not just Apple that Samsung will be up against – Amazon cloud player, Google Music as well as independent streamers like Spotify, Pandora are all popular among music lovers. <\/p>\n

“We want to grow the Music Hub to rank in the world’s top four services within three years in both revenue and subscriber numbers,” Kang said. <\/p>\n

“And to shorten the time, we’re ready to do more acquisitions, if needed.” And Samsung are willing to dig deep to pay for it, he added. <\/p>\n

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Samsung already have an in-house Music Hub service<\/a> available in Australia, US and parts of Europe that starts at A$9.95 a month, streaming tunes and music videos straight to Samsung devices.<\/p>\n

The Korean giant even opened a pop-up store in Sydney pushing the new service last year, so clearly sees it as a major differentiator among rival mobile brands. <\/p>\n

Samsung has made several acquitions already this year, and purchased cloud-based music locker mSpot in May for around $10m and British owned wireless technology experts CSR in July for $310m. <\/p>\n

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