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Founders Fund Raises $1 Billion in Fifth FundFounders Fund Raises $1 Billion in Fifth Fund
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By Kara Swisher
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Amazon Talks to Music Labels About a Streaming ServiceAmazon Talks to Music Labels About a Streaming Service
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Free tunes with your Prime membership?

By Peter Kafka
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You Can’t Buy De La Soul’s Music on the Web. So How Did the Band Give It Away?You Can’t Buy De La Soul’s Music on the Web. So How Did the Band Give It Away?
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Former Netflix CFO Barry McCarthy Joins Spotify BoardFormer Netflix CFO Barry McCarthy Joins Spotify Board
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A guy who helped build a big subscription business joins a company that wants to build a big subscription business.

By Peter Kafka
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Spotify Grabs a Top Engineer From YouTube, Its Current and Future RivalSpotify Grabs a Top Engineer From YouTube, Its Current and Future Rival
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Jason Gaedtke leaves the streaming video service to work at a streaming music service.

By Peter Kafka
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Beats Music Streams With a Human TouchBeats Music Streams With a Human Touch
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By using human curators, Beats Music has created a satisfying music-streaming experience that doesn’t feel robotic.

By Walt Mossberg
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Smartphone Users Gobbling Up More Data Amid Growing Use of Streaming MusicSmartphone Users Gobbling Up More Data Amid Growing Use of Streaming Music
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Average monthly smartphone data use reached 6.6GB per month, up 20 percent from a year ago.

By Ina Fried
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Dropbox Steps Up Business Development With Hires From Facebook, Google and SpotifyDropbox Steps Up Business Development With Hires From Facebook, Google and Spotify
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Longtime Facebook mobile exec Henri Moissinac and others join the inorganic growth team.

By Liz Gannes
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The Second CES: No Giant TVs, No Booth Babes -- Just a Ton of Media Money and Michael KassanThe Second CES: No Giant TVs, No Booth Babes -- Just a Ton of Media Money and Michael Kassan
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Who is Michael Kassan? And why is everyone -- seriously, everyone -- at his parties?

By Peter Kafka
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Beats Music Will Try to Do What Spotify Hasn’t, Using Marketing Muscle and AT&TBeats Music Will Try to Do What Spotify Hasn’t, Using Marketing Muscle and AT&T
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Streaming music is popular. Paying for streaming music isn’t. Here’s the latest push.

By Peter Kafka
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As Song Sales Slump, Streaming BoomsAs Song Sales Slump, Streaming Booms
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Blame the Harlem Shake.

By Peter Kafka
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Gracenote Wants to Let a Thousand Pandoras BloomGracenote Wants to Let a Thousand Pandoras Bloom
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The music data service wants to sell its own version of Internet radio to different brands.

By Peter Kafka