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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Facebook Actions: Building Up The Database Of You

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

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Shazam Launches Music Player For iPhone

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»

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

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»

7 Social Networks Obama And The GOP Hopefuls Should Definitely Join

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»

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Pandora Willing To Become A Spotify App: Cofounder Tim Westergren

"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»

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Would You Pay $20 A Month For Spotify?

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»

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Meet Google Music's Chief Record Store Geek, Tim Quirk

To make up for its tardiness to the online music store game, Google Music has enlisted bona fide music lovers to help curate its store. It's the Google version of "High Fidelity," with Tim Quirk as Rob Gordon.READ»

To Reach Fans Through Social Music Sites, Labels Need To Learn To Let Go

With social music sites like Spotify and Turntable, fans feel a part of something awesome, something that makes it a pleasure to contribute, not a burden. It’s this type of connectivity that is the envy of every brand in the world. But to work, this connection has to be made on the consumer’s terms, and that piece gets lost more times than not. READ»

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Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson Promotes New Headphones By Way Of Sean Parker

Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson is in a mixing room in Lower Manhattan--but instead of hawking headphones like he's scheduled to do, the Jamaica, Queens-bred rapper is hinting about investing in Spotify and all sorts of other Silicon Valley startups. Looks like G-Unit's getting a VC division.READ»

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"Apps" Like Rolling Stone's Could Shine A Light On Spotify's Missing Links

Spotify's got a huge catalog of music and 10 million subscribers. But what happens when the elite critics it's co-opting for its newest feature recommend Led Zeppelin, Adele, Arcade Fire, Coldplay, or other key artists whose albums are conspicuously absent from Spotify? READ»

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Spotify, Rdio, And MOG On Artist Payments: Don't Blame Us

Recently music services such as these have become the black sheep of the industry--popular among consumers but cursed by the content creators. But are these services really worse for artists than iTunes?READ»

How Mobile Has Changed The Music Industry [Video]

This is about much more than simply distributing music. In the era of Social Mobile Location, music has become a platform for a next generation of apps.READ»

LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman Aims To Accelerate England's Startup Scene, Bomb Scare Be Damned

The LinkedIn cofounder takes 30 Silicon Valley executives and investors to Britain to give innovations lessons to Europe's future entrepreneurs. One improvised lesson: when a bomb threat disrupts your creative session, head to the pub to network. READ»

Dropbox Cracks The Enterprise With The Help Of Addicted Users

Cloud-syncing and -sharing service Dropbox, founded by CEO Drew Houston, boasts more than 45 million habitual users already. Today, the company sets its sights on the enterprise market with the launch of Dropbox for Teams.READ»

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Spotify, Rhapsody, Rdio: When Will Subscription Music Pay Off For Artists?

"It sucks that right now that artists are getting paid so little money by subscription services, but it sucks that artists are getting paid so little money by everyone," says MOG exec Anu Kirk.READ»