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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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