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Spotify is continuing its global expansion but, for once, it's not opening up for yet another European country, it's going all the way across the world to Australia and New Zealand.
Spotify is now open to people in those two countries and the company has set up a couple of playlists with native music as w... |
22 May 2012
06:01 GMT |
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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 |
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If you’re a Spotify fanatic, you can now listen to the world’s music collection on your iPad, according to the creators of the music service.Spotify’s Andres Sehr writes on the company’s official blog: “We’re buzzing today because we’ve brought your favourite music service to... |
2 May 2012
09:10 GMT |
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Spotify, the Android application with millions of downloads in Google Play store, is about to receive a major update.
It appears that the application has been completely redesigned and that it now comes with full support for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
The overall performance of Spotify has been improved as wel... |
19 April 2012
08:57 GMT |
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Spotify is the most successful music streaming service there is. It's got millions of users, huge revenue figures, everyone's heard of it and it's getting a lot of engagement on Facebook.
But Spotify isn't making any money and won't be making any money for quite some time. Only a small porti... |
18 April 2012
11:21 GMT |
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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
05:00 GMT |
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Spotify is making it easier, somehow, to embed music, legally, on any site you want. A blog owner could add a track or a whole album to a post and enable readers to listen to the songs. That is if said readers already use Spotify, otherwise they'll be directed to download the Spotify desktop app, provided the s... |
11 April 2012
07:50 GMT |
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The Facebook Timeline for pages hasn't exactly been received warmly by page admins, just like with regulars users before. But some companies are making the best of it, Spotify is only now debuting its page, but it's doing a great job at encapsulating the Timeline's advantages.
"We’ve decided to ... |
30 March 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Spotify has some good news for its US users that haven't yet become customers: they don't have to for an unspecified while longer. Users have been able to enjoy free listening to as many songs as they wanted for months now.
Initially, the unlimited listening was supposed to run out after six months. But th... |
29 March 2012
12:11 GMT |
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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
06:41 GMT |
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Spotify, for all its troubles, is doing quite alright. In fact, it's now raising new funding at a huge valuation, in the range of $3.5 billion, €2.64 billion. That's a big number for a company that still isn't making any huge amounts of money and may not be profitable yet. Granted, Twitter i... |
24 March 2012
08:01 GMT |
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Rdio has just announced a major redesign of its site and, by extension, its web player. The redesign applies to the desktop app as well. The focus was on a more streamlined navigation, easier ways of building playlists, like drag and drop, and generally simplifying things.
The new site is now available to paying use... |
14 March 2012
06:59 GMT |
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Spotify, the popular music streaming service, is gearing up for a major launch on the old continent, which brought it fame in the first place, its debut in Germany. The service is set to welcome new users starting tomorrow. Pricing is said to be the same as elsewhere in Europe, €9.99, $13.10 for the full service... |
12 March 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Although it is an effect that’s been available for years in audio players, crossfading has made its way into Spotify music streaming service. Among other features, version 0.8.2.527 of Spotify brings to the table crossfade support, turned on by default.
Also new in this release is the gapless playback, which e... |
23 February 2012
10:27 GMT |
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Music fans in Europe are going to have more options for streaming their favorite tunes online. Rdio, which debuted in the US, is now launching in Spain and Portugal, the second EU expansion after debuting in Germany earlier this year.
"We're excited to launch Rdio in Spain and Portugal today. Now you can reinve... |
22 February 2012
09:41 GMT |
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It looks like HTC is trying to stave off competition by launching new services that go well with its Android smartphones. The Taiwanese handset manufacturer has big plans for this year’s Mobile World Congress 2012, which is opening at the end of the month.
Tech site GigaOm claims that “sources familiar w... |
15 February 2012
07:47 GMT |
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Spotify Ltd. has issued a new version of its iPhone application that offers access to over 15 million tracks from thousands of albums and artists around the globe. The new release enhances sound quality (for some tracks) and makes it easier to log into Facebook.
The updated Spotify is now available for download in t... |
13 February 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Spotify launched in the US about six months ago. In fact, it launched six months ago minus one week. Since then plenty of people have signed up for the service, Spotify saw a big influx of new users after the US launch and after the Facebook integration a couple of months after that.And those users have been happily ... |
7 January 2012
06:15 GMT |
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Spotify has published its 2011 review. Everyone is doing the same these days, but Spotify is in an interesting position since it has access to what the people are listening to, not just what TV and radio is playing. Not that there's much of a difference.
"How was 2011 for you? It’s been an incredible year... |
29 December 2011
09:55 GMT |
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Owners of BlackBerry smartphones from Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion have had the option to try out Spotify on their devices, and they can now download and install a new flavor of the software. Available only as a preview until now, the mobile application has been released in full, and can be downl... |
22 December 2011
06:51 GMT |
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Spotify has been feeling rather generous lately. A few months ago it upgraded the free tier enabling users to get six months of unlimited access for free.Now, it's enabling users to get full access to the Premium tier for 30 days for free. Spotify Premium enables users to listen to all of the songs on their mobi... |
14 December 2011
14:41 GMT |
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Spotify is debuting a new "Radio" app which will enable users to sit back and listen to music they like without having to constantly fiddle with playlists or pick what they want to hear.
This is important because Spotify hasn't been so great on the 'discovery' part so far and that's been one of t... |
9 December 2011
09:11 GMT |
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Spotify has gained a lot of popularity in the US but, before crossing the ocean, the service was already enjoying a lot of attention in Europe. You can use the application on Windows 7 with no problems, but if you try to run it on Windows 8 Developer Preview, you’ll definitely hit a brick wall.Luckily, the Spot... |
5 December 2011
12:01 GMT |
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Spotify has made the big announcement that it's been building up to and it seems that some of the rumors were, partially correct. Spotify has indeed revealed something related to apps, but it's not what everyone was expecting, an extended API. Rather, Spotify is now enabling third party developers, that it... |
1 December 2011
08:57 GMT |
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Spotify is the best known music streaming service globally and the biggest. But it's still small as a business and it's still struggling to get more people to sign up and especially to pay.So the company is looking at ways of expanding its current service, which offers on demand music streaming to users for... |
25 November 2011
12:31 GMT |
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Spotify has been able to keep itself in the public eye, though not always for the best reasons for quite a while. Now, it's got something else to brag about, the company has just announced that it has over 2.5 million paying subscribers.That's a huge number for a business that is still largely unproven. Whi... |
23 November 2011
13:21 GMT |
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After debuting in Austria, Spotify didn't take long to conquer a couple of new countries. The popular music streaming service is now available in Belgium and Switzerland as well. The service is essentially the same as everywhere else, for better and for worse, so users in these two countries can now finally get ... |
16 November 2011
10:51 GMT |
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Spotify is continuing its expansion. After only being available in a few countries for several years, it is now moving into new territories at a much faster pace. The latest addition is Austria, where Spotify is now available with the regular subscription options."We’ve been busy translating Spotify into German... |
15 November 2011
05:18 GMT |
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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
09:04 GMT |
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Spotify is now available for download via the Windows Phone Marketplace, after being officially announced several hours ago. Windows Phone 7.5 Mango users who would like to give it a try will find it available in the web Marketplace here. The app is available for download via Zune from here. In addition to offering a... |
8 November 2011
05:52 GMT |
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A new mobile application has just been launched for the owners of devices running under Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system, namely Spotify. The app will provide users with fast access to millions of songs that are available through the Spotify subscription service. Thus, users will be able to access fav... |
8 November 2011
01:23 GMT |
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Spotify has just announced the official client app for its music service is now available for download from Nokia Store.However, the application is not available for all countries that got the Nokia N9. On the flip side, Nokia N9 is not available in some regions where Spotify services are working.Anyway, those lucky ... |
25 October 2011
09:05 GMT |
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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
11:10 GMT |
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Spotify has had some big announcements in recent months, it finally launched in the US and it debuted a deep integration with Facebook. But it also had time for the smaller stuff, it recently launched in Denmark and is now available on Boxee, the open source HTPC platform and the Boxee Box, the official device that r... |
15 October 2011
06:51 GMT |
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Spotify now has 250,000 paying subscribers in the US alone according to a recent report. That's quite a lot of people since Spotify only launched in the country a few months back. But the company is going to have to convince a lot more people before it all starts to pay off.Say what you will about Spotify's... |
14 October 2011
13:31 GMT |
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The US is not the only place Spotify is expanding to these days. With that big launch out of the way, and the whole Facebook integration quieting down, the company can finally focus on moving to new countries.
The latest on the list is Denmark, perhaps an obvious choice given its geographical closeness to Sweden,... |
12 October 2011
07:12 GMT |
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It's been a few weeks since Facebook's f8 conference and the launch of the upgraded Open Graph which includes so-called "frictionless sharing," i.e. automatic sharing of activity with friends, mostly via the newly-launched Facebook Ticker.
So far, the apps that have implemented the feature are mostly mus... |
10 October 2011
06:02 GMT |
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Western Digital has invested quite a lot of effort in the development of its line of media players and earlier today it introduced the next-generation of WD TV Live streaming player that claims it's the first in its category to support the Spotify music service. The media player is available in two versions, one... |
6 October 2011
10:50 GMT |
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According to a new report, music piracy started to decline within Sweden due to the huge popularity of Spotify and the convenient plans it provides, thus rendering piracy useless.Music streaming is viewed as a win-win solution for everyone, since end-users get easy and affordable access to songs while artists retain... |
29 September 2011
16:28 GMT |
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It may have put off quite a lot of users and subscribers, but Spotify's move to align itself with Facebook and even require new users to sign up only with a Facebook account, is paying off, at least in the sense that a lot more people are engaging with Spotify on Facebook and a lot more are linking their Faceboo... |
29 September 2011
08:05 GMT |
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Spotify is doing some more damage control and has now published a blog post explaining how users can control what they share with their Facebook friends. Ever since the Facebook integration, users have been asked to link their Facebook accounts and new users wanting to sign up can only do so with a Facebook account.B... |
27 September 2011
13:21 GMT |
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Spotify's decision to require new users to have a Facebook account is not going well with both existing users and potential ones. The move has been highly criticized and it didn't help that Spotify didn't make any announcement until after it blew over.
Now it's defending the move by arguing tha... |
27 September 2011
08:31 GMT |
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Spotify has announced a couple of changes that seemed somewhat inevitable at this point. The music streaming service also made some changes that were not announced. All are related to the new partnership with Facebook.Spotify has announced that it is dropping the Open tier, which offered users free, ad-supported list... |
26 September 2011
12:41 GMT |
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Facebook's rumored and anticipated music platform was indeed unveiled at its F8 developers' conference, but it was part of a much broader project, the expansion of the Open Graph set of APIs, which will enable developers to build all sorts of apps that interact with Facebook and which rely on social data an... |
23 September 2011
10:51 GMT |
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Facebook's eagerly anticipated F8 developers' conference is about to get underway. There have been plenty of rumors about the expected new features and announcements at the event and there are a few new ones as well.
But at least part of the rumors are turning out to be accurate, the first panel is dubbe... |
21 September 2011
07:50 GMT |
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While many were skeptical that Spotify would ever get to launch in the US and be both legal and free, others kept their faith then helped the platform grow when time came. It now seems the Europeans must have done something right since other services now follow suit.Since it might look like Americans are overwhelmed... |
15 September 2011
15:19 GMT |
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More details about Facebook's media integration plans have surfaced. The site is expected to announce deep integration with music services like Spotify and Rdio at its F8 developers conference.Several reports, citing anonymous sources, have surfaced indicating that Facebook's announcement is coming on Septe... |
1 September 2011
05:41 GMT |
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Not long ago, MySpace got bought for $35 million. Fire sale price, to be sure, but the site is bleeding users worse than it has had in recent years and its prospects are bleak to say the least. But the company that bought it has some big plans for it and has now revealed the focus of the new MySpace, music. The site... |
24 August 2011
11:11 GMT |
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Spotify has only been available in the US for less than a month, but the media hype and heavy marketing have paid off, the service is said to have about 1.4 million users already, 175,000 of which are paying subscribers.Spotify launched after a two year wait in the US last month and it hoped that the hype leading up ... |
9 August 2011
09:05 GMT |
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It has been confirmed that Spotify raised money in a new funding round this summer which valued the company at over $1 billion. Existing investors as well as new ones contributed in a round which raised close to $100 million. Spotify raised $98.15 million, €69 million, in the latest round at a valuation of $1.1 ... |
8 August 2011
10:30 GMT |
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