Petabyte Technology, a Seattle-area startup building a cloud-based platform to modernize how veterinary clinics manage their practices, has raised $8 million. The startup’s mobile-first Rhapsody platform touches every aspect of… Read More
— Identity management startup OneLogin hired Vanessa Pegueros, the former chief information security officer of DocuSign and Expedia, to lead global information security. Pegueros, who stepped down from DocuSign in… Read More
Napster parent company Rhapsody snagged Angel Gambino as its chief commercial officer. Gambino founded and was CEO of Sensai, which uses AI to help organizations improve social media campaigns. Gambino’s… Read More
RealNetworks doubled its stake in Rhapsody International, which owns music streaming service Napster, from 42 to 84 percent. RealNetworks will pay $1 million up front in a deal that could… Read More
Napster is coming to Japan. Or, at least, its underlying technology is. Seattle-based Rhapsody International and Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. announced Monday that the two companies will partner on… Read More
In streaming music, Spotify gets the celebrity. Spotify gets the global reach. Spotify gets the IPO. Yet the music service originally known as Rhapsody was the streaming pioneer. It had… Read More
Rhapsody, the Seattle-based company that operates the Napster subscription music service, is cutting an undisclosed number of jobs, part of an effort to sharpen its focus in the face of ongoing competition… Read More
Seattle-based Rhapsody International, which operates the Napster music service, posted a profit of more than $1.6 million in the third quarter on record revenue of more than $54 million, several months… Read More
Rhapsody, the granddaddy of music streaming services, will dump its longtime name in the U.S. in favor of the Napster brand that it has been using internationally, creating “one global… Read More
Seattle-based Rhapsody International — composed of music streaming services Rhapsody and Napster — announced Mike Davis as the first CEO in the parent company’s history. Previously, Davis worked as a TPG… Read More
The move to streaming music has overwhelmed us with too many choices to count. While we can find the entire back catalogue of an artist in seconds, finding one we actually… Read More
One of the glories of streaming all your music is that you never have to sync any of your devices with each other. There are no CDs to burn or… Read More
Rhapsody International, the company behind the subscription music service that predates Spotify by five years, posted about $202 million in revenue in 2015—a new record and 16 percent more than 2014 revenues. But… Read More
Streaming may have loved you yeah, yeah, yeah, but the Beatles catalog sure never did love it. Until now. For the first time ever, music lovers can stream the Beatles… Read More
The music streaming business may be more competitive than it was a year ago, but 14-year-old Rhapsody says its prospects have never been brighter. The company this week released a recap of… Read More
Streaming is the future of music, but you might not want your kids getting into every tune on Spotify or Google Music. A new service introduced today from Seattle-based Rhapsody… Read More
Rhapsody is adding a new section to its streaming app designed just for kids. In a teaser trailer released today, the company offered a sneak peek of the “first streaming music experience… Read More
Rhapsody International has expanded the customer base for its Rhapsody and Napster music services by 50 percent over the past year, to more than 3 million subscribers combined, but that growth has come… Read More
Rhapsody International says it has surpassed 3 million subscribers combined for its Rhapsody and Napster music services, representing 50 percent growth over the past year, and the fastest expansion period in the… Read More
Apple unveiled its new $9.99/month streaming music service this morning, staking its claim in a market with a large number of existing competitors. Established players include radio services like Pandora,… Read More
A new Seattle startup wants to help neighbors share items and expertise with each other while donating to a good cause. Founded by two former Rhapsody executives, MyNeighbor is a marketplace that… Read More
Rhapsody, the Seattle-based streaming music service, has received new loans totaling $10 million from RealNetworks and another of its investors, according to a regulatory filing this afternoon. The filing with… Read More
That didn’t take long. This past September, Seattle entrepreneur Nick Soman launched Reveal Chat, a startup that built an anonymous chat app to help people overcome loneliness and make connections. Today,… Read More
It’s hard out there for a streaming music service in the U.S. A new chart from Statista shows just how crowded the market is for businesses vying to provide music… Read More
A new initiative from streaming music service Rhapsody will let its subscribers share songs from its 34-million track catalog with their Twitter followers — who will be able to play the tracks in… Read More
Rhapsody International, the parent company of the Rhapsody and Napster music services, posted a $21.3 million loss in 2014, even as its revenue climbed 23 percent to $173 million and its… Read More
Recently, I had the opportunity to attend a small networking and branding event for professional women, organized by Fuel Talent and held at Rhapsody’s offices in Seattle. About 50 women… Read More
Rhapsody, the Seattle-based music streaming company, said today it now has 2.5 million paid subscribers around the world using its Rhapsody and Napster music services. That’s a 60 percent increase… Read More
Rhapsody International, the Seattle-based streaming music service, posted a net loss of $7.97 million in the third quarter, falling further into the red even as its quarterly revenue climbed to more… Read More
Rhapsody, the Seattle-based music streaming service that’s battling the likes of Apple, Spotify and Pandora for the eardrums of consumers, has named Soundwall co-founder and former SignalSoft CEO David Hose… Read More