Google’s big I/O reveal may be a streaming music service

Google may release its music streaming service at its major developer conference this week. It is reported that the company has signed licensing deals with music industry giants.

Spotify acquires music discovery & playlist app Tunigo

Tunigo's app will remain inside Spotify and its team will move to Spotify's offices in Stockholm and New York.

Apple streaming music service one step closer to reality as deal with Universal Music Group ‘imminent’

An Apple entry into the streaming music market is kind of a big deal. Now it looks to be one step closer to reality.

Spotify launches first ad campaign, reportedly working on streaming video service

Popular streaming music service Spotify has launched its first real advertising campaign. There's also a dubious report floating around that it will try to compete with Netflix with its own streaming video offering.

Spotify continues streaming music dominance, hits 6M paid users

Streaming music service Spotify has added another million paying subscribers in the past few months, bringing its total number of paying users to 6 million — far more than any competitor.

Thanks, Steve: Global music revenues rise for the first time since 1998

Given that this is the first increase in more than a decade, the music industry has a legitimate reason to scream, and shout, and let it all out.

Rhapsody follows Spotify with slick new Windows Phone 8 app

Music streaming service Rhapsody has launched a sleek new app for Windows Phone 8 — just a week after competitor Spotfiy launched its app on the same platform.

Northern European startups headed down Santa Claus Lane

Arctic Startups, which covers entrepreneurship and technology for the Nordic and Baltic region, is shutting down its business operations but will continue to document innovation from the North.

From savage beast to sweet music: How Pandora became the Internet’s radio station

Very few companies have ever had such a crazy, tortuous, long pivot as Pandora.

Rhapsody looks to steal some Spotify magic with sleek new iPad app

Streaming music service Rhapsody has launched an attractive new iPad app that could steal a little attention from its biggest rivals, the company announced today.

Look out Spotify: Trent Reznor to launch streaming music service next year

Nine Inch Nails front man and Oscar-winning musician Trent Reznor will soon launch a streaming music service in partnership with Beats by Dre that will compete alongside services such as Spotify, Rhapsody, and Rdio.

Confirmed: Spotify Apps coming to mobile & web in January

Streaming music service Spotify will bring the Spotify Apps third-party ecosystem to its new web-based player and mobile apps in January.

Enemies no more: Metallica’s Lars Ulrich & Napster’s Sean Parker on the future of music

NEW YORK CITY -- To celebrate Metallica now being available on Spotify, two former rivals -- Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich and Napster co-founder Sean Parker -- took stage today at a Spotify event to talk about their crazy past and the future of the music industry.

Spotify hits 5M paid subscribers, web app coming early next year

Popular streaming music service Spotify announced that it has reached the 5-million-paid-subscriber milestone.

Watch out, Pandora: Spotify starts testing web-based streaming music app

Streaming music startup Spotify will begin rolling out a beta of its first web-based app today.

Spotify’s rumored $100M round includes investments from Coca-Cola, Fidelity

While the rumor mill is heating up again with news that streaming music service Spotify is raising another round of funding, we're hearing new information about where the money is coming from.