Spotify

Android users will now have to download a new Spotify app if they wish to continue using the service, as the company reacts to a break-in that led to one user’s data compromised. Spotify reported on Tuesday that the company’s internal systems had been hacked. An investigation into the attack revealed that only one user’s Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer chats with Juliet Huddy and Kerry Drew on Fox 5’s Good Day Wake Up about streaming music services. Continue Reading →

Spotify users, take note. The music streaming service just posted a message on its company blog indicating that one user’s account was hacked, but assuring that steps are being taken to ensure others will not fall victim to the same exploit Over the coming days, the Spotify Android app will prompt users to re-enter their Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer chats with Juliet Huddy and Kerry Drew on Fox 5’s Good Day Wake Up about streaming music services. Continue Reading →

Spotify recently announced a major milestone: the music streaming service hit 10 million paying subscribers and now has more than 40 million active users across 56 markets worldwide. Since Spotify launched in 2008, more than 12 billion hours of music have been streamed. The most streamed artist? Eminem. (Rihanna is the most streamed female artist.) Continue Reading →

Spotify announced on Wednesday that its music streaming service has hit a new milestone of 10 million paying subscribers and 40 million active users in 56 countries across the world, since its launch six years ago in 2008. The company says users have created more than 1.5 billion playlists since then, and currently create or Continue Reading →

Spotify dominates the market for music streaming services for consumers. Now a new startup, started by Spotify’s ex-head of business development Andreas Liffgarden and co-founder of Beats Music Ola Sars — and backed by Spotify itself — wants to transform that same music platform into a B2B service. Soundtrack Your Brand plans to sell Spotify Continue Reading →

Spotify has spent years battling the perception that it skimps on royalties; on average, the company pays out $0.007 each time an artist’s song is streamed by its millions of users. In March, one Michigan-based band set out to defy the odds and bring in enough money to fund an upcoming tour. And they took Continue Reading →

Sprint has gathered the NY media on Tuesday to reveal a new smartphone in collaboration with HTC and Harman/Kardon, as well as a discount partnership with Spotify. Sprint unveiled a partnership with Spotify alongside a new service called Sprint Sound sessions, the carrier’s own portal to premium discounted live event, advanced music releases, and of Continue Reading →

You probably have a dozen devices in your house that can stream music from your phone already. But you probably DON’T have something quite like Gramofon, which recently launched on Kickstarter. Gramofon, created by ‘social Wi-Fi’ company Fon, connects to your home’s internet connection and acts like a social jukebox. Your friends can log into Continue Reading →