Twitter expanding #Music team in L.A., looking for a ‘head of music partnerships’

If you'd like to work for Twitter, live in L.A., and don't know a join from a conditional but have good connections in the U.S. music industry, you're in luck.

Codecademy adds API training with YouTube, NPR, Bit.ly, and 6 other services to help new devs build actual products

Today Codecademy is launching a new partnership with nine companies to help budding developers learn APIs and create actual functioning sites, projects, and even products.

SoundCloud: Why sound will be bigger than video online

The audio-sharing network SoundCloud, which allows users to share not just music but any audio recording -- from company earnings calls to cat impersonations -- has just launched a new version, "Next SoundCloud," at LeWeb in Paris.

SoundCloud refreshes its mobiles apps to focus on audio editing

Audio service SoundCloud has updated its mobile apps on Android and iOS with a slew of new features aimed at improving a user's ability to edit sound clips on the go.

Pinterest gets more in-board actions, gives attribution to SoundCloud, Etsy, others

Pinterest is making content creators of the Internet happier today, by providing more attribution tools for sites such as Etsy, 500px, Kickstarter, Slideshare, and SoundCloud.

Pinterest allows you to take images, videos, and other content from around the web and …

LinkedIn Co-founder joins Berlin-based EarlyBird Ventures

Have cash? Looking for tech talent? Go to Europe. So says Konstantin Guericke, co-founder of LinkedIn and newly minted venture partner in Berlin’s EarlyBird Ventures. EarlyBird recently raised $100 million for its fourth fund, focusing on European, and in particular …

Flipboard turns up the volume and adds audio content, SoundCloud support

The problem with most magazines is that they’re just too quiet. Flipboard, the gorgeous iPad and iPhone reading app, is teaming up with SoundCloud to add audio content to its mix of news, photos, and social media.

The partnership kicks …

SoundCloud unveils Next, a completely revamped web app

The audiophiles at SoundCloud, the large sound-sharing platform, unveiled a completely rebuilt web app at its office in San Francisco Wednesday. The new app is only in private beta to start, though ten thousand invites are being sent out today.…

Listen up! Exfm triples its user base following relaunch, raises fresh $1.5M

Back in October music discovery service Exfm attempted to transform itself from a browser extension to a full fledged web service. Apparently the kids like what they’re hearing, because the site has gone from around 75,000 active users to more …

Ashton Kutcher invests in another Berlin startup, “Etsy for experiences” Gidsy

Gidsy, a new company from Germany, could be a way for you to make a few bucks from your more unusual talents.

Gidsy is a “marketplace for authentic experiences,” and it just landed a $1.2 million investment from a combination …

Audiophilic startup SoundCloud raises a reported $50M

SoundCloud, a startup focusing on audio-sharing in social media, has announced a new (and reportedly sizable) round of funding.

The round, which was led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, may have been as large …

Audio sharing site SoundCloud jamming with 5M users

SoundCloud is quickly carving out a niche for itself as a great alternative to MySpace for musicians to share their songs, and now the company has announced that it’s just surpassed 5 million users, the New York Times reports.

The …