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paidContent turns 10: A brief history of digital media
Remember when Friendster was the hot social network, publishers doubted that ebooks would ever sell, and Netflix thought DVDs in red envelopes was the future? We do — that was that state of digital...
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With 15M active users, Spotify adds free radio on Android
Android phones in the U.S. gained a free version of Spotify on Tuesday: The music service announced Spotify radio at no charge with the latest version of its Android software. The free mobile edition...
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Curtains for MOG: Townsquare buys MOG’s blog & ad business
Townsquare Media of Greenwich, CT, that runs live events and owns radio properties has bought the MOG Music Network business. The news was first reported earlier this morning by Peter Kafka who says...
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Spotify gets $100M, including $10M from Coca-Cola
Spotify has completed a new round of financing totaling $100 million, according to a report from the New York Times. The round, which values the company at $3 billion, reportedly includes a couple...
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Music site This Is My Jam could spin out from Echo Nest
Buzzy song-sharing site This Is My Jam could be going independent from its parent company as it prepares to take the next step in its evolution. The site, which lets people share their favorite music...
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Rdio expands global footprint, Spotify reportedly extends free mobile offering
Rdio, the music subscription service backed by the founders of Skype and KaZaA, is expanding to Austria, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Mexico, Latvia and Lithuania. That brings the total number of countries...
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Spotify hits 6 million paid users as market for music streaming heats up
Music subscriptions services, which provide an alternative to purchasing songs on sites like iTunes, continue to gain in popularity. One example is Sweden-based Spotify, which is expanding rapidly...
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This is why Apple wants to launch iRadio
Apple is still dominating the digital download business, with eight out of ten digital music buyers getting their tracks from iTunes in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to new numbers released...
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Rhapsody exec: splashy ads and free streaming promotions don’t work
How do you convince people that they don’t need to own music anymore? That’s a question that streaming music services have been struggling with for years. Both Spotify and Rdio have been ramping up...
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Spotify buys music discovery app Tunigo
Spotify has acquired Tunigo, a Stockholm-based music discovery app, for an undisclosed sum, AllThingsD reported Friday. Tunigo works on Spotify’s platform and also has iOS and Android apps. Tunigo lets...
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Charts: How Spotify is killing music piracy
Spotify has long argued that it isn’t killing music sales, but is rather reducing piracy — and the company now has some numbers to back that claim up: This week, Spotify published a report that shows...
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Who’s to blame for starving musicians – Pandora or the middlemen?
Streaming services like Pandora and Spotify are mighty unpopular in the music world these days. In recent months, famous acts like Pink Floyd and Radiohead have publicly branded them as cheapskates...
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Bid to deny Pandora an FM station reflects out-of-date music royalty system
The town of Box Elder, South Dakota, is an unlikely battleground in the ongoing clash between the music industry and streaming service Pandora. A group representing musicians this week asked the FCC to...
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Ahead of Beats Music launch, Spotify adds some human curation of its own
Spotify is adding a new way to browse its catalog to its mobile devices Monday, enabling users to listen to hand-selected playlists for their workout or morning commute. Separately, the music service...
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Spotify sued by UK dance label over playlist-related copyright infringement
The dance label Ministry of Sound has sued Spotify over alleged copyright infringement carried out by its users, according to a report in The Guardian. This looks like it will be an interesting case....
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No, seriously: Oyster comes pretty close to being a Netflix for ebooks
A lot of startups want to be the Netflix (or Spotify, Pandora, whatever) for ebooks. That is, they want to provide unlimited access to ebooks for a flat monthly fee. But this is really hard to pull...
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Twitter Music app launches on Spotify
Twitter’s standalone #Music app hasn’t really taken off, so the company is trying again: On Thursday it launched the app on Spotify. The app lets users listen to songs that are trending on Twitter and...
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Pink Floyd makes peace with music streaming: drummer says it “might work”
Legendary band Pink Floyd made waves this summer when it publicly blasted online radio service Pandora for conspiring to cheat musicians out of a fair royalty rate. The accusations, set out in a public...
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Rdio takes on Pandora and iRadio with free station streaming on iOS and Android
Rdio, the digital music service founded by Skype co-founder Janus Friis, is now letting its mobile users listen to its Pandora-like personalized radio stations for free. The move comes just weeks after...
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YouTube is reportedly planning a subscription music service (that will...
YouTube is planning to roll out a subscription music service this year, according to a Billboard report citing unidentified sources. The service will apparently be similar to Spotify, with free and...
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