Apple’s new social network for music fans, Ping, has had a rough start. People didn’t expect it to be a Facebook for music right away but they did expect more from Apple. After years of social media ...

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.

Apple plans to shutter its failed social network Ping later this year, a recent report claims. Apple unveiled Ping in September 2010, and while many Apple pundits seemed enthusiastic about a music ...

As usual there was a flurry of rumors surrounding Apple's surprise product launch today in San Francisco. The event was live streamed across the web for Mac users only (though there was a work around ...

Today marks the 10th anniversary of Apple launching its ill-fated social network Ping, which allowed users to follow their favorite music artists and friends within iTunes and discover what songs and ...

There are a lot of reasons why Ping failed, the biggest of which was probably the lack of Facebook integration when the service launched. Back in 2010, the word was that Apple was forced to pull ...

Spammers have wasted no time in flocking to Apple's new music-related social media service integrated within iTunes 10, Ping, which does not feature any protective filtering measures. Security firm ...