Watch Out, Spotify: Google Might Want In on Streaming Music
Google, possibly eying subscription music streamer Spotify's 6 million paying users, may be introducing a music streaming service of its own.
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Google unveiled its new streaming music service at their annual I/O developers conference on Wednesday. It has a very long name and some pretty cool new features. Whether it will actually do anything to upend your listening habits and the market for streaming music services, well, that's up for some immediate debate.
Google, possibly eying subscription music streamer Spotify's 6 million paying users, may be introducing a music streaming service of its own.
With Twitter's new music service reportedly coming out sometime this weekend, it's time to consider if we really want to go to our Twitter friends to find new tunes.
The streaming music service Spotify is giving ones of its biggest competitors $400,000 per day to advertise on its homepage.
As if the streaming video business couldn't get any more crowded, streaming music giant Spotify is trying to disrupt its way into on-demand Internet TV content. Which sounds like a profoundly bad idea, until you think about House of Cards and how to work a content deal these days.
The relationship between record labels and Apple has always had an "offer you can't refuse" tension. So as Apple looks to expand more robustly into streaming music, it's not surprising that labels are bristling — even if the "too low" per-song economics might actually be an increase.
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich used to be the loudest opponent of giving away music for free online. But today he joined Napster founder and erstwhile enemy Sean Parker to announce that his band's entire catalog has gone up for streaming on Spotify.
The tech masses are applauding Apple for its latest update to iTunes, which strips away the service's bloated, feature-heavy past without delivering a much anticipated streaming music service.
Digital music streams could harm the environment even more than compact discs – so green-minded operators should introduce caching, or even ship their entire catalogues on a single chip.
Spotify, the popular music streaming app, is getting ready to launch a browser-based version of their service, but rumors of a potential drop in the price for their premium service don't add up.
Subscription media services are rapidly seeing consumers build up libraries in their rental ecosystems. But, as they become more popular, operators must keep it easy for users to go back to the content they love and pay for.
Spotify just announced a free mobile radio app for iPOS devices, which has some tech watchers suggesting might mean trouble for rival music streamer Pandora, yet we can still think of one big reason to keep that Pandora in our rotation: Its algorithm.
Dealbook's Evelyn M. Rusli reports that the music-sharing company Spotify is raising money as part of a deal that values it at $4 billion, and fresh off this morning's enormous $1.5 billion valuation for Pinterest, we can't help but fear this is more evidence of a social media bubble.
A pair of apps hit Spotify on Thursday, both with a new and ambitious mission: to find you a lover.
The new "Listen" button on Facebook musician pages does exactly what you think it should do: It plays that artist's music, for free and for as long as you want to play it.
With the launch of a new "Play Button" feature, Spotify's streaming music service will soon live not only in its iTunes-like app but also comfortably on any website on the Internet.
It's not out of the kindness of its own heart that music streaming service Spotify has opted not to follow through on its threat to kick off all its freeloaders.
After making Timeline widely available, Facebook's following up with its Open Graph promises, debuting its frictionless sharing apps tomorrow, AllThingsD's Liz Gannes reports.
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Every year sees the debut of new things -- new actors on the scene, new gadgets, new websites, etc. -- that define an otherwise arbitary date.
Just in time for those six months of free unlimited streaming subscriptions to expire, Spotify has a big announcement this afternoon.
Spotify just lost about 200 record labels, which is bad for a service that's only as valuable as the music it provides.
Today the music streaming service started a no-ads option
There are four times as many people using the streaming service than downloading files
Not surprisingly, it has some social components
Even with an unlimited streaming free option in America, Spotify has 400,000 paying listeners
The scatter-brained billionaire's greatest creation may have been Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg's love of Spotify is expected to translate into Facebook Music
Just when iTunes convinced us to pay for jams, everyone's rushing to sell you free music
Finally Zuck is jumping into the music game
After only three and a half weeks, the cloud service is off to a promising start
Swedish streaming site gets sued after two weeks on American soil
A beloved European cloud music service enters the American market
But is it enough to beat Google, Amazon and Apple?
Apple's cloud product spells bad news for the world's leading music streaming site
Because their 'chief priority is to keep the free service'
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