Songbird, music player that wants to do everything, loses CEO
Songbird , the San Francisco company offering a free Web tool to discover, play and manage music across any device, is looking for a new CEO as it focuses on making money.
Robert Lord, who founded the company, was removed this last week, and replaced by Mark Jung, who was chairman and now takes over as interim chief executive.
The three-year-old company’s music player is still under development. Jung said the company has enormous potential, more than… Continue Reading
Songbird, a browser-integrated media player, received $8M last year
Although we reported in October 2006 that Songbird had taken $1 million from Atlas Ventures and Sequoia Capital, it apparently only took another two months for the company to land another $8 million.
The funding in December 2006 came from the same two funds, according to TechCrunch. It remained unreported, until now.
Songbird works within Mozilla Firefox as an open platform that developers can use to integrate a customized media player into their own website. By working… Continue Reading
Music player Songbird gets $1M, releases cross-platform version
Songbird, the San Francisco start-up that has made a smart music player that searches and plays music on your desktop and on the Web, has raised about $1 million from Atlas Ventures and big name venture capital firm, Sequoia Capital.
It will soon unveil its second release, which has some cool new features. Songbird originally played only on windows, but the coming version will play on other operating systems, including Mac OS and Linux. It began… Continue Reading