Spotify




If you’ve got the right kind of speakers, the streaming service says it will bring high-fidelity audio into your home. Do you care?


Spotify, Pandora and YouTube are all growing. Music sales aren’t. There’s a connection.


Every $10-a-month music service is basically the same. But the world’s biggest video site is planning something different.


Product boss Shiva Rajaraman was one of the guys in charge of a long-delayed subscription service.


If you want to join them, hire them.


It might make sense, but it has not happened as yet.


Big guns from the search giant swoop in to help the popular online music service.




For T-Mobile customers, it’s a no-cost no-brainer. But is it worth it for the rest of us?


Never mind what’s available where ...


We need a music-licensing system that works the way we will be, not -- to paraphrase a great songwriter and friend -- the way we were.




A handful of T-Mobile customers report they have incurred charges while listening to Spotify, despite the carrier’s promise of unlimited music streaming.


Google announces software tools that adapt popular mobile applications for the car.


Plus, Intel’s board gets a new director and more Yo stupidity.


“Rhapsody unRadio” offers more features than Pandora, but less than Spotify. It’s priced in between the two.


The music-licensing organizations continue to keep their head firmly stuck in the sands of the 20th century.


AMC Networks figures out a clever way to give fans more content, without spending a penny.


It’s like Spotify or Beats, minus a lot of music. But it’s free for Amazon Prime members, and that may be enough.


Digital music is a new world, where content experts and technologists must partner to succeed.


But only three percent say they use Beats’ streaming music service.


A talk that covers music, tech, TV and a few hints about the future.


“When I first discovered ProTools ... I ruined a lot of music.”




The cloud service announces the first in a series of deals meant to tout its success as an enterprise player.


Someone you work with may have a 13-hour Spotify playlist comprised entirely of calming wind chimes.


Sprint trims its quarterly losses by 77 percent from a year ago, but still reports a net loss of subscribers.


Sprint gives Spotify a push; Spotify gives Sprint subscribers a discount.


Rebirth will be fueled by the downturn of the $16 billion broadcast radio industry.


Apple will keep 30 percent of each subscription Beats sells. Worth it, says CEO Ian Rogers.


Beats and AT&T tried it earlier this year. Here comes another pairing.


If you’re an advertiser, publisher, consumer or investor, it’s pretty clear which side of the divide you want to be on.


Its software is already being used by thousands of companies, including Spotify.


A burst of new subscribers might be nice before an IPO.


Based on the patterns of consumer spending on music, streaming services are priced too high.


Twenty-eight million people are paying for subscription services like Spotify.


“Yahoo’s too easy,” said one local party-crasher. “Open bar, no line? I’m like, ‘Is this a trick?’”