One of the key battlegrounds between these two companies will be who has the best curators, but also who has the best algorithms for matching those playlists to listeners.
"The Labour party seem determined to make it one of their battlegrounds, which is very weird," he said.
Despite its own underwhelming performance at the local elections, Labour was buoyed as a new poll by Tory peer Lord Ashcroft showed that Ed Miliband's party was 12% ahead of the Tories in 26 key marginal battlegrounds.
The seats, which include Simon Hughes Bermondseyy and Southwark and Nick Clegg's Sheffield Hallam, are key Labour Liberal Democrat battlegrounds.
Until recently, the Obama campaign even talked of turning Georgia, with its swiftly growing black and Hispanic populations (and a booming Atlanta economy that has attracted its share of eggheads) blue in 2012.Mr Obama's popularity has fallen in the Southern battlegrounds, but less quickly than it has in many Midwestern states.
California-style tussles over prospective pension rights, says Josh Rauh at Stanford University, are one of the three battlegrounds for state and local governments facing pension shortfalls, along with the cost-of-living adjustments applied to pension benefits and the effect of municipal bankruptcies on pensioners.
Strategists from both parties are therefore poring over this week's muddled results in an effort to decipher whether and under what circumstances Democrats can still prevail in the battlegrounds of the South.There is little question that the Republicans remain the party to beat in most of the region.
The prime minister intends to make public investment one of the main battlegrounds of the next election, contrasting Labour's commitment to spend for the future with the Conservatives' preference for lower taxation.
But perhaps the most flattering and least welcome indicator of the sharing economy's rise is the energy being devoted by governments, courts and competitors to thwarting it (see article).The main battlegrounds are the taxi and room-rental businesses.
Several ultra-conservatives in Libya's national congress have echoed similar sentiments, upsetting many who fear the country's campuses are becoming battlegrounds in a wider struggle for national identity.
SEATS, as Gulliver noted in August, are one of the main battlegrounds in the competition between airlines.
