With the continuing growth of music streaming services, Microsoft is rumored to be working on a similar service of their own to bring music to its products. CNET reported this week that software giant Microsoft is under negotiations with a number of record labels regarding a music service similar to Spotify, Pandora, MOG, Rdio and other subscription services. “Negotiations...
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Online music streaming service Spotify is now requiring its users to sign up using their Facebook accounts, instead of creating a new Spotify account. In the past, new subscribers should create a unique login that was not tied to the social network in any way. At the F8 developers conference last week, Mark Zuckerberg has announced a number of media partnerships that will...
Spotify, one of the world’s leading music streaming service, announced recently a new developer API called libspotify, or more commonly known as the Spotify Embedded Player. The iOS exclusive API will allow developers to easily embed the Spotify player into their apps. This encourages the development of third-party apps using their music streaming service. Previous...
Since arriving in the United States less than two weeks ago, Spotify has already signed up more than 70,000 paying subscribers. The number, which is not yet confirmed by Spotify, has been released by Billboard, who said that the label executives have confirmed the number. It has been an obsession of Spotify to take their business across the Atlantic. Their American release...
Spotify, the most popular music service in Europe, launches in the world’s largest music market today, after two years of intense negotiation with record labels. In an email sent to Reuters on Wednesday, a spokesperson from Spotify said that Spotify that Spotify “will become available tomorrow morning in the United States by invitation and subscription.” Last...
Spotify, a music streaming service that has enjoyed massive popularity in Europe, has announced that it will be launching in the US soon, though no specific date has been given. According to the official Spotify website, “The award-winning music service that’s taken Europe by storm will soon be landing on US shores. Millions of tracks ready to play instantly,...
Facebook is about to jump the music streaming bandwagon, taking on the likes of Google Music and iTunes. The news comes by way of GigaOm which believes Facebook will unveil the brand new service at the ‘F8’ conference in August. Facebook will utilize larger music services such as Spotify to deliver music to the masses of Facebook users. This is a smart move from the...
Napster has once again evolved the way it delivers music to the masses, gone are the days of dodgy downloads and lawsuits. Napster went legit a few years ago with a web based platform that provides a catalogue of over 15 million songs, the boffins at Napster HQ could see a threat in streaming services such as Spotify and today announced Napster Unlimited plus Mobile. This...
After a week of 3D over the last few days it makes something of a pleasant change (although we’re really not complaining about being indundated with 3D goodies) to write about something else. In this case, it’s all about social networking and the social web. Twitter has reached its 20 billionth tweet in excellent time while Facebook looks likely to postpone...