2000s in the music industry Inc.), who surpassed Wal-Mart to become the US’s largest music retailer in April 2008. Sector leaders include: Many hundreds more stores operate worldwide, often prominent only in particular countries or specialist genres. A third kind of operator never retails directly to the public, instead offering branded whitelabel stores and portals for organisations including bricks-and-mortar music stores, mobile telephony operators and ISPs. Some services which initially only offered streaming of tracks now also offer a-la-carte downloads, either through third parties (e.g. Spotify) or fully integrated (Deezer, Juno Digital, Rhapsody etc.). In 2009 "Rolling Stone" reported a price war between iTunes and
Community and Public Sector Union sector employees and university general staff, while the PSU Group represents Commonwealth employees, Territory employees, and employees in former Commonwealth entities. These groups reflect the pre-existing eligibility and industrial coverage of the amalgamating organisations. The CPSU has about 160,000 members, approximately 60,000 in the PSU Group and over 100,000 in the State Public Service Federation (SPSF) Group. The CPSU is affiliated with the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and the Australian Labor Party (ALP). The SPSF was first registered as a federal union on 30 July 1976. Initially, the SPSF covered a limited range of State public sector employees