Spotify officially launches in the US
Spotify has officially launched in the US. The company announced today that the streaming music service finally is available in the world’s largest music market. The US service does not differ much from what is offered in Europe and prices are as anticipated: $9.99 for the premium streaming plan and $4.99 for the “unlimited” plan. The...
WE7: Peter Gabriel’s online music effort
The UK music service WE7 launched in the UK April 2007 as a download site, then shifted focus in November 2008 to streaming music. In February 2010 WE7 embraced the freemium business model by offering an advert-free service for a monthly subscription. The service claims over 3 million users and 6.8 million tracks for streaming in the...
Timberlake is bringing MySpace back
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation sold the former popular social website MySpace late June for the meager sum of 35 million USD, 65 million less than they initially were looking for. The highest bidder was the online advertising specialists SpecificMedia, who has partnered with singer and actor Justin Timberlake to bring the social network...
Import your playlists with Groovylist
You are perhaps using last.fm, Spotify or iTunes to stream your music? Now you can import your playlists to Grooveshark, the freemium on demand US streaming music service, using the nifty, little application Groovylists. Groovylists takes your playlist from Spotify, last.fm or exported iTunes XML playlists and adds them to Grooveshark. The service is the...
Spotify to power Facebook Music?
It has been rumoured for a long time that Facebook and Spotify were planning an integrated music service that would extend beyond the current facility in Spotify where, using Facebook Connect, users can connect to friends on Facebook and share playlists and songs from the Spotify music library. The project has been dubbed Facebook Music...
Spotify secures 100 Million USD in funding
The US launch of music service Spotify could be imminent as the company secures 100 million US dollars in funding. Reports have it the that the London-based Swedish startup has been negotiating for six months to conclude the round. Funds come from the private investment firm Digital Sky Technologies, one of the major shareholders in Facebook,...
SoundCloud reaches 5 million users
Launched in 2008, the social audio platform SoundCloud founded by the Swedes Alexander Jung and Eric Wahlforss just reached 5 million users. The news were made known in the SoundCloud blog on 15 June, where an infographic was posted showing the explosive growth of the cloud service. According to Jung, 4 million of the users have signed...
Spotify in the US
Spotify signs a deal with Universal The popular technology blog All Things Digital was the first to report Friday that the popular Swedish music subscription service had signed an American distribution deal with Universal Music Group, the world’s largest music label. With deals already signed with EMI Music Group and Sony, Spotify is closer to launching...
Stream your music with DropTunes
Users of the online storage service DropBox can now stream any music files stored in their account via an additional service called DropTunes. DropTunes is an application that sits on top of DropBox, and a user only have to log in with his DropBox credentials to start using the service. DropTunes creates a /Public/DropTunes folder...
