Wow, if nothing else, new European music service Spotify , which is yet to launch in the U.S., has captured everyone’s attention. TechCrunch Europe reports that Swedish telecommunication service provider Telia will soon release a Spotify-branded mobile phone. [...more]
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Though it can't cache songs like the recently-approved Spotify , Rhapsody's app is available in the U.S., and lets $15-a-month Rhapsody To Go subscribers stream unlimited tracks over Wi-Fi, 3G or Edge. It's also free to try for a week. [...more]
Streaming music service Spotify has launched on the iPhone and Android devices for its premium subscribers. You can download it from Apple’s App Store here and the Android Market . [...more]
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The internet has basically been daring Apple to approve the iPhone app for Spotify, the frankly amazing streaming music app that seems like an obvious threat to iTunes, since you can cache tracks and create fully customized playlists. Well Apple just approved it, "and they hope to add the app to the more than 65,000 apps on the app store very soon." The service itself still ain't available in the US yet (boooo), but it's a good sign Apple approved an app that seemed oh-so-ripe for rejection, a la Google Voice [...more]
The ink isn’t even dry on the MySpace/iLike acquisition , and already Facebook has a new crush on a different music service, Spotify . We’ve heard that Facebook has been talking with the European startup about a partnership for well over a year (about the time the Facebook music rumors heated up), but that the talks have intensified dramatically in the last week. And just as we were digging into that rumor, up pops a Facebook status message from Mark Zuckerberg : “Spotify is so good.” Wondering about the timing? [...more]
Update: This is now confirmed . Breaking news from the other side of the world: Yahoo may well have acquired Maktoob , a leading Arab internet portal that encompasses a variety of services including search, Email, social network, and more. [...more]
We’ve done more digging on the Spotify cap table story from yesterday, and have confirmed with one source that the company did close on at least part of the new round of financing the Financial Times reported they were negotiating earlier this week. Wellington Partners invested in the company some time prior to July 10, taking a 3.8% stake for €6.5 million, confirms our source. That implies a valuation of €170 million, or about $242 million based on today’s exchange rates [...more]
Hot European music startup Spotify is back in the news today. On August 4 we broke the news that the big music labels have secretly been shareholders in the company since 2008, and that they paid roughly the same price for their preferred stock as venture capital investors Northzone Ventures and Creandum paid last year. Now, though, Swedish news site ComputerSweden is reporting that those music labels actually got their stock for free [...more]
I’ve now been given an extended demo of the Spotify iPhone app which is currently awaiting Apple’s approval . Unfortunately the guy who showed it to me managed to prize the iPhone with the app on it from my cold sweaty palms, so I wasn’t allowed to take the app away on my own iPhone. [...more]
iPhonAsia has some information on China's exciting WiFi-crippled iPhone. [...more]
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