Digital music has transformed year after year since Shawn Fanning brought us Napster in 1999. The service allowed you to easily download music in MP3 format that you hadn't paid...

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Spotify has been expanding rapidly as of late, finally launching in the U.S, then Denmark and making its service available on a number of Western Digital set-top boxes, and has...

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Music streaming and sharing service Spotify updated its iOS app, which is the product offering that gets the least amount of attention lately, especially after its recent launch in the...

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Spotify has been going from strength to strength since it launched stateside back in July, and since its deep integration with Facebook last month. Indeed, Spotify is now among one of the most recognizable digital brands – but it too was once a young startup. An email from Napster Co-founder Sean Parker to Spotify's Daniel [...]

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Spotify has been going from strength to strength since it launched stateside back in July, and since its deep integration with Facebook last month. Indeed, Spotify is now among one...

Read More: You have to see this email from Sean Parker in 2009 pitching his interest in Spotify

It's been a busy year for Spotify, what with its US launch and tight Facebook integration. And now it has announced it's integrating more tightly with the livingroom, as it...

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It's been a busy year for Spotify, what with its US launch and tight Facebook integration. And now it has announced it's integrating more tightly with the livingroom, as it has teamed up with Western Digital (WD) to bring the music-streaming service to the WD TV media player. In yet another incentive to sign-up to [...]

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Nuance released an update to the free Dragon Go! for iPhone app that adds Spotify, Wolfram|Alpha, Ask.com, Dictionary.com and Google+ to the list of content sources that can be queried by voice.


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On Monday Spotify announced that their service is now freely available for anyone who wants to sign up, previously it was available only by invite. At that time Spotify also announced their participation with Facebook's "frictionless sharing" were the songs you listen to automatically appear in your friend's ticker and newsfeed without you needing to do anything. Several users did not like the idea and apparently Spotify has listen to them and has released an update with a private listening mode [...]

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Wish that Spotify's Facebook sharing feature, introduced last week, was a little more selective? Your wish has been granted The comapny's CEO Daniel Ek tweeted that "We're rolling out a...

Read More: Spotify rolls out ‘Private Listening’ mode to counter Facebook sharing complaints

Facebook's f8 event was a big one for music streaming service Spotify. The company decided earlier this week to limit its signup to Facebook users only, which caused a bit...

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Spotify, which is a popular streaming music service that became available in the United States this summer, is now freely available to anyone interested in signing up for the service. When it first launched, Spotify was in a closed beta and one could only sign up by getting an invite.


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Facebook's recent integration with Spotify will certainly help make the music-streaming service a lot more social, but it seems that users are now required to have a Facebook account to...

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Want the full story from F8? Here's everything you need to know. Now that we know that Facebook has over 800 million users, music on Facebook is a serious business....

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Facebook's f8 developer conference is two days away and the company has been trickling out additional information related to the event, including the roster of speakers that will be appearing on its 'Transforming Industries' track. It includes plenty of familiar names — namely, some top executives and investors in the valley — which isn't all that surprising.

But reading between the lines a bit, it may well give some insight as to who Facebook's launch partners will be for the features that wil [...]

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I received three Spotify invites. If you'd like one, leave a comment with your email addy. First three get them. Disclosure: I'm not being compensated or anything like that Disclosure 2: I really do love the service; it's replaced the...

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It's nice when companies keep their word. As we expected last week, Spotify officially became available in the United States today, although the free version of Spotify is not available unless you receive an invitation. The premium version of Spotify, which costs $9.99 per month, provides full access to the service.


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Most people now know Sean Parker's name from that Academy Award-winning film in which he's a main character. But long before that, his name was well known in the tech world, and especially music circles, as the guy who helped start Napster. In other words, the guy the help bring about the beginning of the end for the music industry as we once knew it. So when he has something to say about the music industry, people listen. And today he had enough to say to write a note on Facebook. What prompted [...]

Read More: Sean Parker On Spotify U.S. Launch: “The Realization Of A Dream”, “The Answer To Piracy”

To outsiders looking at the mobile technology industry, we must appear to be obsessed with music. Each of the major platform companies have their own music services, from Apple's iTunes, to Microsoft's Zune, and to Google's Music beta. Companies that endeavor to become platforms, such as Amazon, see providing a music service as table stakes. With new music services seemingly popping up daily, it's hard for any one service to rise above the crowd, but indeed one has, and i [...]

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