Spotify is a commercial music streaming service providing digital rights management-restricted content from record labels including Sony, EMI, Warner Music Group and Universal. Music can be browsed or searched by artist, album, genre, playlist, or record label. Paid “Premium” subscriptions remove advertisements and allow users to download music to listen to offline. On computers, a link allows users to purchase selected material via partner retailers. The service reached 40 million users with 10 million subscribers in May 2014.
Apple is reportedly in talks to acquire Beats Electronics in a deal that would surely have as much to do with Beats’ new streaming music service as its line of electronics… Read more »
Apple’s track record with services is pretty awful, but it’s acquiring talent and its cost of streaming music customer acquisition will be much, much lower than anyone else’s. Spotify and Pandora… Read more »
Sprint plans to offer Spotify trials for customers, with the ability to pay for the service through carrier billing, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said at an event in New York on… Read more »
Spotify is getting close to having 10 million paying subscribers worldwide, according to a Guardian report that cites unnamed music industry sources with the estimate that the music subscription service will hit… Read more »
Music subscription service Spotify is getting ready to switch its data delivery technology from P2P to a server-client model, according to a TorrentFreak report. Spotify has long been using P2P for… Read more »
Carriers are becoming more interested in app recommendations, not only because of potential advertising revenues but to promote their ever-increasing number of app partnerships. Read more »
Europeans who buy a new Samsung Galaxy S5 phone will get 6 months of free music with it, courtesy of Deezer. Its just the latest move to give premium music services away. Read more »
Last.fm, the CBS-owned (S CBS) digital music outlet, will close down its streaming radio product by the end of April (hat tip to Engadget). Last.fm announced in its forums Tuesday that… Read more »