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Spotify

Pandora CEO Brian McAndrews leaving as founder returns to top job

Internet radio service Pandora, facing intense competition from Apple, Spotify and other rivals in digital music, this morning announced the departure of… Read More

Spotify hires Microsoft general counsel Horacio Gutierrez as its top lawyer

Microsoft general counsel Horacio Gutierrez, a longtime attorney who oversaw many of the Redmond tech giant’s company’s biggest patent deals and cases,… Read More

Spotify becomes first music platform to integrate with Facebook Messenger

Music has arrived on Messenger. Facebook announced today that its mobile messaging platform now integrates with Spotify. The new feature,… Read More

Google wins Spotify’s cloud-computing business in a big victory over Amazon

You may not be storing much music on your computer or phone anymore, but it’s still taking up a lot disk… Read More

Generation App: Millennials share the secrets of Spotify in the premiere of GeekWire’s new podcast

Snapchat’s just for sexting, right? Why would I link an app to my bank account? What makes Spotify so special?… Read More

Amazon Echo can now play music from Spotify for premium users

Spotify users that pay for a $10 per month premium account can now listen to their music through the Amazon Echo.… Read More

Amazon ‘Spotify killer’ in the works? Report suggests enhanced music service planned

Perhaps not satisfied with its own million-song Prime Music, Amazon is reportedly looking into launching a separate streaming service that would… Read More

Starbucks partners with Spotify to reimagine its music offering, again

Until the MP3 and iTunes went and ruined everything, Starbucks at one time moved a lot of CDs and carved… Read More

Talk about a revolution: The Beatles, finally, are streaming on Christmas Eve

Streaming may have loved you yeah, yeah, yeah, but the Beatles catalog sure never did love it. Until now. For… Read More

Drake dominates on Spotify and claims most streamed artist of 2015

If there was a contest to winning the Internets as a musical artist, Drake gets to put on the crown… Read More

You can now groove to Obama’s awesome playlists on Spotify

Bored with all your friends’ picks on Spotify? Give Barack Obama a try. That’s right. Obama curated two playlists for… Read More

Rhapsody posts record quarterly revenue of $50M — and a $12M loss — amid big growth spurt

Rhapsody International has expanded the customer base for its Rhapsody and Napster music services by 50 percent over the past year, to… Read More

Prince takes on the Internet, pulls his music from Spotify and other streaming services

If you were powering up a bunch of your holiday weekend jams with Prince songs, you might want to check… Read More

Google launches free streaming music service to compete with Apple, Spotify

Google is entering the already-crowded market of online radio music services. The company today announced a new free, ad-supported streaming service of Google… Read More

Spotify reaches 20M paid subscribers, setting a high bar for Apple Music

Spotify announced today that it has doubled the number of paying subscriptions since the end of May last year. The… Read More

Chart: Apple Music vs. Spotify, Pandora, Rhapsody and the rest of the streaming competition

 Apple unveiled its new $9.99/month streaming music service this morning, staking its claim in a market with a large number… Read More

Apple’s new music streaming service coming as soon as next week

Apple is expected to announce a new music streaming service next week that, if successful, could cannibalize its own music download… Read More

Spotify adds podcasts and video streaming, partners with MTV, ESPN, Disney and others

Spotify has streamed more than 25 billion hours of music, but now it’s expanding beyond songs with new podcast and video… Read More

Spotify hoping for ‘millions’ more subscribers thanks to Starbucks deal

Spotify is hoping to sign up millions of new subscribers to its streaming music platform through a new partnership announced today… Read More

Starbucks partners with Spotify on music subscriptions, expanding rewards program

Starbucks is partnering with streaming music service Spotify to put a new spin on music in its stores. The coffee chain… Read More

Chart: This is how crowded the streaming music industry is

It’s hard out there for a streaming music service in the U.S. A new chart from Statista shows just how… Read More

PlayStation owners can now stream Spotify music while playing games

Sony’s partnership with Spotify goes live today, allowing PlayStation owners to stream tunes from the music service while they play games.… Read More

Filing reveals $21M annual loss for Rhapsody, despite big jump in revenue and subscribers

Rhapsody International, the parent company of the Rhapsody and Napster music services, posted a $21.3 million loss in 2014, even as… Read More

This is bleeping awesome: Amazon Echo’s Alexa will cuss on command

Alexa, the virtual personality behind Amazon Echo, will now repeat anything you want. As long as you don’t step into NSFW language,… Read More

Spotify Super Bowl data: Missy Elliott streams spike by 676% after halftime performance

View image | gettyimages.com   Forget the Patriots — the real winner of Super Bowl XLIX was Missy Elliott. In… Read More

Amazon Echo adds voice controls for Spotify, iTunes and Pandora, plus new ‘Simon Says’ feature

Amazon just added a pair of new features to its Echo intelligent talking speaker, providing voice controls for three third-party music services, and… Read More

Sony inks deal with Spotify to power ‘Playstation Music’

Sony today announced that it has signed a deal with Spotify to power a new streaming service called “PlayStation Music” that will… Read More

60 million people are on Spotify, but only one in four pays

While more people are streaming music, they’re still not necessarily paying for it. Spotify announced that it had 60 million… Read More

Spotify releases top jams for 2014: Ed Sheeran, Katy Perry and Pharrell should be happy

In light of the Internet’s outrage over less-than-relevant Rolling Stone‘s choice of U2’s Songs of Innocence as the album of the… Read More

Uber to announce partnership with Spotify on Monday

Uber and Spotify are set to announce a partnership that will let Uber riders access and listen to their Spotify… Read More

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