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Spotify Launches An iPad App

BY Nidhi Subbaraman | 05-02-2012 | 7:07 AM | INNOVATION

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Spotify's Updated Android App Is Now Ice Cream Sandwich Ready

BY Nidhi Subbaraman | 04-19-2012 | 10:01 AM | INNOVATION

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Spotify Announces Coca-Cola Deal, Launches Brand Apps

BY Nidhi Subbaraman | 04-18-2012 | 10:24 AM | INNOVATION

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The Great Tech War Of 2012: Players Invade Each Others Turf

BY Kit Eaton | 04-11-2012 | 10:25 AM | DESIGN

Google's move to radically overhaul Google+ is just its latest salvo in its social battle with Facebook, just as Facebook's using Spotify in a musical skirmish with Apple, and Apple's battling with Amazon over ebooks....READ MORE›

E-Book Antitrust Case Against Apple, Google Redesigns Google+ For Better Photos, Video, Nokia Announces NFC Windows Phone

BY Nidhi Subbaraman | 04-11-2012 | 6:55 AM | INNOVATION

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Saavn: A Spotify For Bollywood

BY Nidhi Subbaraman | 03-19-2012 | 12:00 PM | INNOVATION

The music streaming service now has 9.3 million users worldwide, and adds another 125,000 new users per month--five times as many as this time last year. Are you ready to dance?READ MORE›

Vevo, Echo Nest Team For Personalized Music Video Recommendations Based On Your iTunes Library

BY Austin Carr | 03-09-2012 | 5:52 AM | INNOVATION

Today, Vevo announced a partnership with Echo Nest to offer fans personalized, social music recommendations based on their listening tastes.READ MORE›

Spotify Exec Ken Parks On "Windowing": Mind-Boggling, Very Bad, Hostile

BY Austin Carr | 02-28-2012 | 4:31 PM | INNOVATION

For music services such as Spotify and Rhapsody, perhaps the biggest threat is coming from artists themselves, and a practice some are calling "windowing." Are staggered releases a staggeringly bad idea?READ MORE›

Rhapsody, Spotify, Netflix, And The 28-Day Waiting Game

BY Austin Carr | 02-22-2012 | 9:03 AM | INNOVATION

The music industry may soon be acting even more like the film business and delaying streaming songs to avoid cannibalizing sales."Windowing," says Jon Irwin, CEO of subscription-based music streaming service Rhapsody, "[is] fundamentally the wrong thing to do."READ MORE›

Why Spotify Turned Down Adele's "21"

BY Austin Carr | 02-15-2012 | 4:32 PM | INNOVATION

You didn't read that backward. Adele was willing to have her album "21" available on the streaming music service. But Spotify would have had to change its whole strategy to accommodate her. READ MORE›

Spotify Growing By 8,000 Subscribers Per Day, More Than Netflix, Sirius XM

BY Austin Carr | 01-26-2012 | 5:36 PM | INNOVATION

Spotify just hit 3 million paying subscribers, up from 2.5 million just two months ago.READ MORE›

Rhapsody Nabs Napster International To Battle Spotify In Europe, Knocks Competitor Facebook "Growth"

BY Austin Carr | 01-25-2012 | 9:25 PM | INNOVATION

"When it comes to competing against Spotify," says Rhapsody president Jon Irwin, "the name of the game is: Go big, or go home."READ MORE›

Facebook's Open Graph: Boons For Business, Perils For Privacy

BY E.B. Boyd | 01-19-2012 | 3:11 AM | INNOVATION

Integration with Facebook lets apps build their businesses. But users might not be ready to go full open kimono right away.READ MORE›

Slacker Radio CEO Can't Say Whether Music Streaming Business Models Are Sustainable

BY Austin Carr | 01-18-2012 | 6:14 PM | INNOVATION

Searching for answers in the untamed wilderness of digital music with Slacker Radio's Jim Cady ... and realizing we're still very lost. READ MORE›

Facebook Actions: Building Up The Database Of You

BY E.B. Boyd | 01-18-2012 | 1:35 AM | INNOVATION

The social network allows third-party apps to pipe information about what you're doing elsewhere back to the mother ship.READ MORE›

Shazam Launches Music Player For iPhone

BY Austin Carr | 01-11-2012 | 4:04 PM | INNOVATION

The startup behind the popular smartphone app, which enables users to identify music by scanning and matching short audio clips, today unveiled the Shazam Player.READ MORE›

Cars Are Horrible Mobile Tech Devices, So Why Are Pandora, MOG Hitching Rides?

BY Austin Carr | 01-05-2012 | 9:36 PM | INNOVATION

Pandora's Tim Westergren and MOG's David Hyman agree that automobiles are slow, fractured, and generally a pain the tailpipe for web-powered services like theirs. And yet there's nowhere they'd rather be. Here's why.READ MORE›

7 Social Networks Obama And The GOP Hopefuls Should Definitely Join

BY Austin Carr | 01-05-2012 | 5:40 PM | INNOVATION

When President Obama showed the power and potential of Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube in 2008, every politician and their chief of staff's mother jumped on the social media bandwagon. Yesterday Obama joined Instagram. Here are several other networks he--and his rivals--should be on.READ MORE›

Pandora Willing To Become A Spotify App: Cofounder Tim Westergren

BY Austin Carr | 01-04-2012 | 3:11 PM | INNOVATION

"It's an interesting thing to consider," Westergren tells Fast Company. "The wild card here is music licensing." But legalities aside, his openness to collaboration speaks volumes about the future of music streaming services.READ MORE›

Would You Pay $20 A Month For Spotify?

BY Austin Carr | 12-15-2011 | 2:33 PM | INNOVATION

Spotify chief content officer Ken Parks says you can get unlimited music, from anywhere, for the price of just a "couple of beers." Isn't your music worth more than that?READ MORE›