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Apple Inc is working very hard indeed to open new stores to match its growing popularity since the launch of the iPod and the iPhones. While new stores are being opened every day, this is not enough, so Apple is partnering with Retail partners to bring the Apple stores to places where they aren’t present as of now.

One such example is India, where Apple just concluded  a deal with Reliance to launch its flagship Apple Store in over 10 locations countrywide. The deal was finalized on  Monday and is the first retail partnership of Reliance with an International brand. The first of the Apple Stores will open by the end of October in bangalore, with ten more to open by the end of the year.

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Well how many companies are working round the clock to eat a bit of the share that Apple’s iTunes has on the online music market. And now finally there is one more that you can add to this growing list of companies trying to challenge iTunes. And its not a nobody who is doing that but it is our very own google.

Google is in final stages of building an alternative to iTunes which willl be called gBox. The program, which will be quite different from the model that iTunes follows now. gBox will get referrals through ads Universal will buy through search leader Google. Google will set standard advertising fees rather than a cut of sales. The ads, which will appear when a user searches for specific details, such as the name of an artist,and then the user will be redirected to gBox.

Songs at gBox will cost 99 cents each. For the Universal songs , gBox will offer an MP3 version free of anti-copy technology known as digital-rights management, or DRM. A DRM enabled version will also be available at the same price at gBox.
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