Music-focused startup The Echo Nest has raised $17.3 million in its fourth round of funding, a move that will help it improve its music platform, which powers many popular music apps around the web and on mobile devices.
Some of …
An iOS application called Sonarflow for Spotify, which hooks into the streaming service for access to 15 million tracks and counting, promises to point you to artists and songs that you’re sure to love.
Sonarflow for Spotify, a brand new …
The debate over native apps versus mobile web rages on: which is better, which is more accessible, which is more customer-friendly.
VEVO just provided its answer by giving 50 million music lovers in the U.S. and Canada access to the …
Streaming music service MOG was officially acquired by audio hardware company Beats Electronics today, reports USA Today.
MOG is a subscription-based streaming music service that’s similar to Rdio, Rhapsody, and Spotify. It offers a free ad-supported version of the service, …
Apple’s flagship service iTunes is in for a much-needed overhaul, according to a Bloomberg report that cites unnamed people familiar with the matter.
The changes are said to include further integration with its iCloud cloud storage service and increased sharing …
Yahoo has reached an agreement with Spotify that will put the streaming music service in front of its 700 million global users, the web portal announced today.
Spotify is the ultra-popular music service that lets people share their song library …
The days of being able to rip an MP3 file from the audio of a YouTube video are numbered as far as Google is concerned.
The search giant apparently sent a letter to one of the biggest offenders, YouTube-MP3-.org, to …
Apple’s iTunes Match service is getting a very significant upgrade in the next version of iOS that will make it far more competitive with the growing number of cloud-based music service competitors.
The biggest problem with Apple’s overall push to …
Apple’s Ping, that social music service in iTunes that most people didn’t use, is finally kicking the bucket. In the next version of iTunes, Ping will be gone, sources told All Things D.
Ping is a social network for music, …
Soundrop, a social app for streaming service Spotify’s music platform, has raised $3 million in its first round of funding, the company announced today.
Soundrop was among the first batch of apps that launched with Spotify’s new open-platform, which invites …
It’s no secret that Amazon’s business strategy involves growing its digital media sales, which it has done by undercutting MP3 music download prices on iTunes. But Amazon’s streaming music strategy, kicked off by its Cloud Player release last year, has …
As of yesterday, the only music available on Microsoft’s digital media platform Zune are funeral procession songs.
The technology/gaming giant has confirmed that the Zune brand will be heading to the graveyard, according to the New York Times. All Zune-related …
Xbox Music gets previewed at the Microsoft Press conference today.
Musician Amanda Palmer has managed to raise more than $1 million for a new album through a Kickstarter project, making it the seventh project to break the million-dollar mark in the crowdfunding platform’s history.
For those not familiar with Kickstarter, …
Two of the biggest companies in the tech industry, Facebook and Google, are interested in grabbing a piece of popular music video site Vevo.
The tech giants are competing for an equity stake in Vevo as well as a lucrative …
Apple is rumored to be in acquisition talks with music-editing startup Redmatica, according to Italian news blog Fanpage.
Italian-based Redmatica produces music editing software for OS X, with four main products that range in scope from casual to professional. The …
Samsung has released new details/a> of its forthcoming streaming music service, Music Hub, and it might even turn out to be more than just another iTunes competitor.
The service aims to provide a media service for owners of Samsung’s mobile …
YouTube is no stranger to live streaming popular events, such the Coachella Music Festival back in April. But for its upcoming live stream of Australia’s annual Vivid Live music event held at Sydney Opera House, YouTube is showing off a …
Pandora gave investors something nice to listen to for its fiscal Q1 earnings report: record increases in revenue, user activity, U.S. radio station market share, and more.
The company reported $80.8 million in revenue (with a net loss of 9 …
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