According to a new study, mobile operators should quit pushing their own music download stores on users and instead partner with music streaming services to increase revenues. READ»
Spotify, the successful European company (and our #15 most innovative company of the year), which plans to enter the U.S. market this year, offers up free streaming of music--great for users, but it’s not helping the industry, ...READ»
The Stateside launch for Spotify is firming up and could happen in late summer. The music streaming service currently only available in some European countries is in talks with U.S. Internet and cell-phone service providers in this ...READ»
Describing it as a "next-generation" relaunch, Spotify has unveiled its new look, ahead of its U.S. launch. Fans of Facebook and iTunes might notice some similarities with the music streaming service's facelift, but founder and CEO ...READ»
Spotify, purveyors of music streaming to discerning Europeans, has just slashed its subscription prices by 50%. It's introducing a couple of new tariffs: Spotify Unlimited, at half the cost of Spotify Premium, giving users ad-free ...READ»
New data released last night by ComScore shows that we might be waiting a while for the much speculated about mobile version of iTunes (or else, it'll pop up in Vietnam). Consumers, it seems, are continuing to manage their media ...READ»
About 15% of U.S. iTunes users are willing to pay at least $10 per month for a music-subscription service, according to a new study by the NPD Group. The report, which concludes that between 7 million and 8 million users have a ...READ»
The streaming music biz in the U.S. has been more exciting, or at least mysterious than it has in Europe, with leading brand Spotify just beaten to market by Rdio. And Apple, with Lala, seems not to be playing the same game at all.READ»
When Spotify's chief designer bails for Facebook before the service launches in North America, you have to wonder what's going on with both companies.READ»
Legal music-sharing service Spotify just revealed that it's apparently five to six times more used than its nearest rivals. That's a pretty astonishing measure of success, and the site has big plans. In fact, it's likely to beat a ...READ»
There are rumors abounding that MySpace is in advanced stages of trying to social-network music system iMeem, and they set us thinking. Looking at Facebook's tie-up with Lala, and even MySpace's with iLike, is this all to outsmart ...READ»
Lala, the music streaming company bought by Apple at the end of 2009, will be dead in a month. It posted a message on its Web site last night to that effect, that said, "Lala is shutting down on May 31. Unfortunately, we are accepting ...READ»
Spotify, iTunes, Zune, Rhapsody: Watch out. MOG is finally available on iPhone and Android, and it's pretty great, with a big catalog and nice features like high-quality downloading.READ»
