Internet radio service Pandora, facing intense competition from Apple, Spotify and other rivals in digital music, this morning announced the departure of its CEO Brian McAndrews, the longtime technology executive with deep roots… Read More
Microsoft general counsel Horacio Gutierrez, a longtime attorney who oversaw many of the Redmond tech giant’s company’s biggest patent deals and cases, is leaving Microsoft to join music streaming service Spotify as… Read More
Music has arrived on Messenger. Facebook announced today that its mobile messaging platform now integrates with Spotify. The new feature, which is rolling out to iOS and Android users, is… Read More
You may not be storing much music on your computer or phone anymore, but it’s still taking up a lot disk space somewhere. Spotify has been handling that storage for its… Read More
Snapchat’s just for sexting, right? Why would I link an app to my bank account? What makes Spotify so special? If you’re used to hearing these questions (or asking them)… Read More
Spotify users that pay for a $10 per month premium account can now listen to their music through the Amazon Echo. Amazon announced today that its virtual assistant will now officially… Read More
Perhaps not satisfied with its own million-song Prime Music, Amazon is reportedly looking into launching a separate streaming service that would take on big players Spotify and Apple Music, a report in… Read More
Until the MP3 and iTunes went and ruined everything, Starbucks at one time moved a lot of CDs and carved out an important (and decidedly middle-of-the-road) position in the music… 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
If there was a contest to winning the Internets as a musical artist, Drake gets to put on the crown this year. He was the most streamed artist worldwide, according… Read More
Bored with all your friends’ picks on Spotify? Give Barack Obama a try. That’s right. Obama curated two playlists for Spotify today with the White House launching a new channel… 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
If you were powering up a bunch of your holiday weekend jams with Prince songs, you might want to check your playlists again — the all-mighty Purple One has removed… Read More
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 Play Music, “giving you a new way to find just… Read More
Spotify announced today that it has doubled the number of paying subscriptions since the end of May last year. The streaming music service now has 20 million subscribers and 75 million… 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
Apple is expected to announce a new music streaming service next week that, if successful, could cannibalize its own music download business. The service, which is expected to cost $10 a… Read More
Spotify has streamed more than 25 billion hours of music, but now it’s expanding beyond songs with new podcast and video features. The streaming giant also announced today that it’s adding… Read More
Spotify is hoping to sign up millions of new subscribers to its streaming music platform through a new partnership announced today with Starbucks. “We are trying to grow in the millions,”… Read More
Starbucks is partnering with streaming music service Spotify to put a new spin on music in its stores. The coffee chain announced today that My Starbucks Rewards members will soon be… 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
Sony’s partnership with Spotify goes live today, allowing PlayStation owners to stream tunes from the music service while they play games. Initially announced in January, the Spotify integration — called “PlayStation Music”… 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
Alexa, the virtual personality behind Amazon Echo, will now repeat anything you want. As long as you don’t step into NSFW language, that is. Over the weekend, Amazon began notifying owners of its… Read More
View image | gettyimages.com Forget the Patriots — the real winner of Super Bowl XLIX was Missy Elliott. In a surprise cameo, the 43-year-old veteran rapper joined Katy Perry… Read More
Amazon just added a pair of new features to its Echo intelligent talking speaker, providing voice controls for three third-party music services, and making it possible to get the device’s “Alexa” digital persona… Read More
Sony today announced that it has signed a deal with Spotify to power a new streaming service called “PlayStation Music” that will be available initially on the PS4, PS3, and Xperia devices.… Read More
While more people are streaming music, they’re still not necessarily paying for it. Spotify announced that it had 60 million active users by the end of 2014, but only 15… Read More
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 year, Spotify has released its most popular artists and songs… Read More
Uber and Spotify are set to announce a partnership that will let Uber riders access and listen to their Spotify playlists while riding around town. TechCrunch and The New York… Read More