Updated: iCloud: Just A Lot Of Hot Air When It Comes To Streaming?
In the stream of announcements made today at the WWDC, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) may have dismantled more than one business model in its wake. “Sh*… Read more »
Clouds Gather Over iCloud In Germany: Apple Faces Antitrust Complaint
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Amid ever-growing speculation and buzz around the WWDC, and the details of what Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) will be announcing at its annual develope… Read more »
Changing Of The Guard At Three UK: CEO Russell Replaced By COO Dyson
Three, the Hutchison-owned mobile operator that splashed on to the UK mobile scene as a greenfield 3G entrant in 2003, has lost its CEO of t… Read more »
Spotify’s Business Head Has Left The Company
Spotify’s global head of business development, Faisal Galaria, has left the music startup, which is now creeping closer to breaking out of E… Read more »
Video: Zennström, Parker On Innovation And Pushing Legal Boundaries
KaZaA and Napster helped destroy entertainment industry value. Now their co-founders have invested in building legal subscription offerings.… Read more »
Report: Spotify To Gain Prominence In Facebook Media Platform
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Facebook will soon add Spotify as an on-site music service, Forbes magazine reports.
Alongside Facebook’s own-brand photos, events and othe… Read more »
Will Consumers Baulk At Digital-Rental Lock-In?
With growing adoption of new unlimited-access media rental services like Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and Spotify, I anticipate a future crunch poin… Read more »
Google To Bypass Record Companies, Launching Cloud Music Service
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is going ahead without approval of the major record labels and will unveil its cloud-based music program at the search g… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 05-06-11: Sony Ericsson/Facebook; T-Mobile; Visa; JiWire
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) updates its Xperia mini devices, and adds a “Fac… Read more »
7digital On Spotify: ‘Minimal Impact’ From Loss, Freemium Is Unsustainable
7digital, one of the leading digital music downloads retailers, will see “minimal impact” from losing the contract to sell tracks through Sp… Read more »
In The Mobile Music Landgrab, Rdio Signs On With Verizon
As big guns like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) reportedly gear up to launch their own music streaming services, the smaller sta… Read more »
Spotify Ends 7digital Relationship To Become Offline iTunes Rival
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Spotify is set to more closely compete with Apple’s iTunes and iTunes Store, by upgrading its pay-to-download music features and extending i… Read more »
Meet The Spotify Car, Six Months Free
It was only seven days ago Forrester research director Mark Mulligan postulated: “Imagine how tiny a fraction of a three-year Spotify premiu… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 04-19-11
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» The DVD and online video rental company LoveFilm has joined forces with Disney (NYSE: DIS) to stream films including Toy Story 3… Read more »
paidContent Week In Review: Tasini Vs. HuffPo; Google Earnings; Flipboard
In case you missed it, links to some of the top stories in digital media this past week:
» Tasini On HuffPo Lawsuit: We Have ‘Al… Read more »
Pay To Play: Can Spotify Still Turn Freeloaders In To Customers?
Asked why it’s downsizing its free service, Spotify tells paidContent:UK: “It’s not due to bandwidth issues and it’s not a premium conversio… Read more »
Spotify Halves Free Allowance Ahead Of U.S. Launch
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Spotify, which had previously slimmed the amount of music users could play for free, is now making a further curtailment that’s aimed at wri… Read more »
Confirmed: Spotify Hiring Domino’s Savoca In U.S. Push
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Spotify is due to name independent label Domino Records’ long-time head of digital Steve Savoca as its U.S. content operations head, paidCon… Read more »
Shazam Is Now Friends With Facebook
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One more step for Shazam to make itself a more useful service — and another step in Facebook’s ambition to become your central hub for medi… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 03-23-11: Apple Data Center; Mobile Ad Trends; Clouds
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: speculation on what Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) might do with its new data center in North Carol… Read more »
Spotify’s European Business Head Leaving
Spotify’s European business development director Adrian Blair is leaving to join a fast food company.
Specifically, as COO of Just-Eat, the… Read more »
Spotify Vs. Rhapsody By The Numbers
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Spotify has doubled the apparent success of its freemium model by changing the way it reports one number. Read more »
Spotify’s 1 Million Milestone. Is A U.S. Launch Finally Around The Corner?
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A big milestone reached today for the music streaming service Spotify. It now has one million paying subscribers, according to a blog post f… Read more »
Beyond Oblivion Secures $77 Million Extra Funding
Beyond Oblivion, the online music marketplace partly owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS), has secured $77m (£47m) in add… Read more »
Motorola Gets In On Cloud Services With Catch Media Stake
With speculation building up that both Google and Apple are getting ready to launch cloud-based music services, Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is maki… Read more »
Mobile Music: A $5.5 Billion Opportunity For More Than Just Apple
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New forecasts out today for the mobile music market from Juniper Research: it will bring in revenues of $5.5 billion by 2015, compared to $3… Read more »
Is Spotify’s $1 Billion Value A Bubble Bellwether?
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Kleiner Perkins is tag-teaming the already-reported $100 million Spotify investment with DST Global, taking a five percent stake for its hal… Read more »
From Russia With Two $1 Billion Deals?: Spotify And Yandex
The major Russian digital players continue to shape the online economy farther west.
In the latest examples… Read more »
Interview: Rdio CEO Says Subs Will Boom (But First, That Apple Problem)
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In the unlimited music subscription race, Drew Larner reckons his pay-for service has a much better shot at surviving than certain other riv… Read more »
‘Apple Just F****d Over Online Music Subs’
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Apple’s new subscription rules could seriously hurt the nascent wave of unlimited-music subscription services just as they promise to return… Read more »
Facebook ‘Phones’ From INQ And HTC: This Could Be Just The First Step
So INQ and HTC are revving up to release the first “Facebook phones”? Not exactly, but it’s a crucial step for Facebook in testing the water… Read more »
Spotify Lays The Groundwork For U.S. Premium Billing
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Not to report on the start-up’s every utterance, but Spotify may be increasingly confident of an upcoming U.S. launch at some point in the f… Read more »
Rdio: Funded To The Tune Of $17.5 Million; Warner Records’ Cavallo On Board
Last week we wrote about how social music service Rdio was picking up a round of funding from Mangrove Capital Partners. Today the company o… Read more »
The State of Music Monetization
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Who’s paying for what? We’ve been getting hit with a lot of subscriber updates here and there, including a few at MidemNet this weekend. S… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01-20-11
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» Although European streaming music service Spotify is still not ready to enter the U.S. market — it continues to make its state… Read more »
Spotify: International Expansion Is Our #1 Priority
Spotify is putting globalisation ahead of profitability, and breaking America is still top of that list.
Asked if the music service is near… Read more »
Shazam Will Point Users To Songs On Spotify
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Here’s a no-brainer that many users will be thankful for – and which could mean another small increment of business for both sides…
Shaza… Read more »
Swedish Music Service Launching In U.S. (No, Not That One)
While many continue fretting over whether and when Spotify will open up Stateside, another digital music company from Sweden is going ahead… Read more »
Sony’s Qriocity Adds Music To Its Cloud Service
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), which dominates legal digital music downloads, has (so far) stayed away from cloud-based music services. That has given… Read more »
Video: Spotify’s UK Head On How Sceptics Misjudge Paid Content Businesses
[ooyala=JiNDB2MTqTatvG5yYmMfZFfhpm9GqIMD] UK country manager Jon Mitchell tells the AOP… “The crucial thing for businesses heading in to a world they’re not particularly familiar with, like News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) heading to paywalls: you’ve got to be flexible. “There’s obviously lots of comment externally on these businesses, […] Read more »
