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Deezer for Windows 8 Now Available for Download

After Nokia Music, Microsoft’s new Windows 8 operating system has received another important music app, this time providing users with the great features of Deezer. The official Deezer client comes with dedicated options to create and manage playlists, organize your music library, and listen to artist-based an...

17 April 2013
07:26 GMT

Deezer for Android Gets a Makeover, Now in Beta

A new flavor of the Deezer application is now available for download for the owners of Android-based devices, though only for beta testing for the time being. The new app release comes to devices with some appealing new features, including a mini player and predictive search for faster typing and finding of songs, ...

4 April 2013
12:41 GMT

Deezer Debuts Mobile App Platform, Affiliate Program for Developers

Deezer may not be as big as Spotify yet, but it's been moving faster lately. While Spotify announced its third-party app service earlier, Deezer was the first to implement it. Now, it's doing the same with mobile apps and it's also using an affiliate program to encourage more developers to get involv...

13 March 2013
15:11 GMT

Spotify Launches in Italy, Poland and Portugal, Now Available in 20 Countries

Spotify is expanding once again and is now available in Italy, Poland and Portugal. The music streaming service has been available in several European countries, but is still far behind Deezer in terms of reach. That's part of the strategy, Deezer is focusing on casting as wide a net as possible, Spotify is f...

12 February 2013
05:12 GMT

Deezer Coming to Samsung, LG and Toshiba Smart TVs

Deezer plan to expand to as many countries as possible has mostly come to fruition, the music streaming service is available in many parts of the world and more countries are added. Now, Deezer seems to be thinking about expanding to more devices. The service is mainly serviced by the website. That has the advantag...

6 February 2013
05:41 GMT

Rdio Offers Free Unlimited Music in 15 Countries Now

While Rdio is often touted as a Spotify competitor, it's mostly in name, as its subscriber and user numbers are much smaller than Spotify's and, more recently, than Deezer's. Given that Spotify and Deezer barely make a living in the music streaming space, being far behind is not a great place to be. ...

29 January 2013
10:46 GMT

Deezer Finally Launches in Brazil

Deezer's strategy of launching in as many places as possible seems to be paying off so far, though the company is far from being profitable, like everyone else in the music streaming business. Still, it's continuing that strategy by launching in Brazil, one of the few places in Latin America where it wasn&...

22 January 2013
10:51 GMT

Despite the Bigger Name, Spotify Is Slowly Falling Behind Deezer

Deezer doesn't get as much recognition as other music streaming services, but that's down to just one thing, it's not available in the US and it's not going to be for a while to come. Yet, that's precisely the reason for its success so far. Deezer attacked the rest of the world, the entire ...

8 January 2013
10:21 GMT

Deezer Goes Free with Unlimited Music for a Year

Deezer, the music streaming service that aims to conquer the world by avoiding the US, has now unveiled a free, ad-supported version. Unregistered users could only play 30-second previews of the songs. Deezer had a free trial period, but users had to subscribe after that. Now, registered users can listen to tracks i...

20 December 2012
08:52 GMT

Deezer Adds Spotify-like Apps, Introduces App Center

Deezer is finally starting to build a decent platform for developers, taking a page out of Spotify's playbook. In fact, it seems to be going beyond what Spotify is currently doing with a couple of the new features. One of the big new features is the App Studio, the second phase of Deezer's Open API program...

28 November 2012
05:50 GMT

Deezer Goes Mobile with Tigo in 6 Latin American Countries

Deezer is continuing its plans of world domination by announcing not another expansion but an even more important deal with a Latin American carrier, which would see Deezer bundled with mobile plans in six countries. These deals can be very important to services like Deezer since they expose the music service to a ...

6 November 2012
08:01 GMT

Introducing Deezer WebApp for Ubuntu 12.10

Starting with this article, we’re going to introduce you guys to a lot of Web Apps for the recently released Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) operating system. As you already know, in the past we’ve introduced lots of Unity Lens and Unity Scopes for the Ubuntu Linux distributions, since Canonical invented...

23 October 2012
01:05 GMT

Deezer Expands to 160 Countries, Full Free Service on Its Way

Deezer is announcing its big new plans, now that it's got the money to put them into action. Last year, Deezer decided that it wasn't going to compete in the US so it could have a chance of competing everywhere else. It seems like that plan is intact, as this is exactly what Deezer has been doing so far a...

10 October 2012
10:02 GMT

BBC Launches Dedicated iPlayer Radio, Hints at On-Demand Music Future

The BBC is indeed launching an iPlayer Radio, a separate service, but it isn't as spectacular as some of the rumors would have made it seem. The media company is simply splitting radio programming and TV programming and providing two services and two sets of apps to access them. The content itself will remain t...

8 October 2012
11:23 GMT

Deezer Has 2 Million Paying Users, Gets $130 Million from Warner Music Group

Deezer has confirmed rumors surfacing during the weekend that it has seen a $130 million, €100 million investment to spur further growth. The money comes from Warner Music Group's parent company, Access Industries, as well as previous investor Idinvest. Rumors say some of the money is being used ...

8 October 2012
07:54 GMT

Deezer Is Conquering the World, but Subscriber Numbers Aren't Growing

Deezer, one of the many music subscription services that's trying to make it in the cutthroat online music world, decided last year that it wasn't going to compete with Spotify and company, but would rather go to markets where it would encounter little or no competition. The plan was essentially, 1. conque...

24 August 2012
09:10 GMT

Rdio Quietly Launches in the UK and France

The music streaming business is finally becoming global, as the few companies that have been able to offer on-demand unlimited streaming are now expanding to countries beyond the US. Granted, in some cases this means the big European markets, but it's a start. Rdio has now become available in the UK and France...

3 May 2012
12:01 GMT

Facebook's New Listen Button on Artist Pages Opens Your Favorite Music App

Facebook is continuing to improve the music experience on the site. The Open Graph enabled a lot of music streaming services to have access to a lot more users. Now it's helping them even more with a Listen button on bands' Facebook pages. The Listen button, as you'd expect, enables users to listen to...

18 April 2012
05:00 GMT

Spotify Said to Launch Soon in Australia and Ireland

Spotify isn't done expanding. A couple of weeks ago it debuted in Germany, last month in Spain and Portugal and there is now talk of it launching in Ireland and Australia as well. Spotify is set to announce the expansion this week, so if you've been waiting for the popular music streaming site to become av...

26 March 2012
06:41 GMT

Deezer Becomes the First Major Legal Music Streaming Service in Eastern Europe

Deezer is finally making good on some of the promises it made last year. It is now available in all of Europe, the company says, 46 countries in total, thanks to its latest push in Eastern Europe, the last group of countries to join. The site has actually been available for a few days now in the region, but Deezer i...

15 March 2012
10:01 GMT

Deezer Free Music Streaming to Launch in All of Europe by the End of the Month

The music streaming business may not be the most profitable one, but the demand is there and the potential is huge. It just takes someone to find out how to make money from it. Several companies are focusing on the US first, but the French Deezer has another idea. For it, not focusing on the US is actually an advant...

7 December 2011
10:24 GMT

Facebook Posts Great Stats for All Music Apps, but Spotify Is by Far the Winner

It's been a month and a half since the Facebook f8 developers' conference and the social network is coming out with some stats boasting about the great engagement music apps see with the new Open Graph, i.e. the one with automatic sharing.While Facebook says the numbers are preliminary, especially since the...

9 November 2011
09:04 GMT

Deezer to Launch in 100 Countries by the End of the Year

When it comes to music streaming, everyone is talking about Spotify, but there's one player that you should be watching right now, Deezer. The French company has been at it for a few years and is doing pretty well in its home country.But it now plans to expand aggressively and will become available in 100 countr...

19 October 2011
11:10 GMT

Deezer Introduces Premium Services, Desktop and Mobile Apps

Eventually, music is bound to move online completely, no matter what the labels think about that, so a lot of companies are competing for what could finally become a very huge market. The problem is that, today, there isn't that much money being made from it, but this doesn't seem to deter that many. Music ...

5 November 2009
09:53 GMT

Free Music Streaming Service Deezer Raises €6.5 Million

Despite things looking up for online music streaming services, it is still a cut-throat segment with a lot of businesses going under and the ones that do survive hardly making any money. There's been one music service that has been making a lot of waves lately, Spotify, but even it isn't making nearly the k...

12 October 2009
08:46 GMT


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