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
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, going […] Read more »
Spotify Could Go On Virgin Media; Virgin Wants Exclusive
Spotify and Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) are in talks to carry the music service to the cable company’s customers, paidContent:UK understands. Read more »
Let’s Do The Time Warp: Spotify’s 2009 Accounts
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Spotify’s 2009 UK accounts appeared at Companies House on Friday. They’re largely irrelevant now – not just because they’re nearly 12 months… Read more »
eMusic Launches New Site With Tiered MP3 Pricing
eMusic launched its new website today, which includes 250,000 new songs from Universal, new hits from Sony (NYSE: SNE) Music and Warner Musi… Read more »
WMG Renews Spotify For Europe, Still Talking In U.S.
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If analysts on Warner Music Group’s Q4 earnings call were hoping for news of a Spotify deal, they got exactly what they wanted. Edgar Bronfm… Read more »
Spotify By The Numbers: High Royalty Outgoings, U.S. By Christmas?
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Yes, Spotify is sticking to a target of launching Stateside by Christmas. In the meantime, our original curiosity about the freemium music s… Read more »
Hey, Spotify Sceptics – International Is Hard To Do
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Naysayers continue expressing suspicion Spotify will launch in the U.S.. But Spotify’s not alone in discovering the challenge of an overseas… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10.27.10
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» If you want a white iPhone, better be patient. Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has experienced delays again and says the white version won’t… Read more »
Updated: Spotify Tries Live Concert Broadcasts; New U.S Murmurs
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Spotify aims to add live broadcasts of music concerts to its premium services as one more potential reason people might pay to subscribe, as… Read more »
Warner Bros. Hires Transpera’s Ballard To Lead Digital Games
Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) has hired mobile gaming veteran Greg Ballard to lead its digital games business, as the company continues to double… Read more »
Spotify Gains Another Premium Option – Sonos Wireless Players
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Spotify has given itself one more, small reason why people might subscribe to Spotify Premium – a hook in to Sonos’ wireless music systems a… Read more »
Spotify’s Brown Is COO At Academic Network Mendeley
Paul Brown, who is leaving as partnerships SVP at Spotify, is becoming chief operating officer for Mendeley, a start-up often described as a… Read more »
Spotify SVP Brown Leaving For New Startup This Week
Spotify’s partnerships SVP Paul Brown is leaving after 18 months with the music startup, saying his exit’s on good terms. Read more »
In Unlimited-Music Race, Rdio Beats Spotify To U.S. Launch
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Despite trying for over a year, Spotify has been beaten to U.S. launch by Rdio, the comparable online music start-up backed by Atomico Ventu… Read more »
First Look: Spotify’s On TV, But It Still Needs Partner Deals
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Spotify has been offering pay-TV operators a set top box version of the music service for some time now. But so far it only has the deal ink… Read more »
Spotify Halves Subscription Cost As Competitors Gather
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Spotify is slashing the cost of its advert-free music streaming in Europe, in a bid to win more paying customers besides just mobile users.… Read more »
Spotify Targets iTunes, All-Comers With Social And MP3 Features
Spotify spent most of its first year saying it would refrain from adding “social” features and concentrate on just serving music. But the ic… Read more »
Blockbuster To Get New Warner Bros DVDs Four Weeks Before Netflix/Redbox
This surely isn’t the four weeks of Advent, but nevermind, at least Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) gets some breathing space it desperately needs.… Read more »
@ SxSWi: Spotify CEO Ek Says Spotify Passes 320,000 Paid Subs But Mum On U.S. Date
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If you were hoping that Spotify CEO Daniel Ek would use his South by Southwest Interactive keynote to announce a launch date for the U.S., n… Read more »
