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It seems that shortly after Paris-based music streaming service, Deezer, announced that they would be expanding to US markets come 2014, a new rumor has surfaced suggesting that Microsoft could be interested in acquiring the company for themselves. As it stands Deezer has about 5 million paid subscribers which isn’t too far behind Spotify’s 7 million paid subscribers, that and the fact that the company has been successful in negotiating deals with mobile companies, such as LG, Samsung, and Toshiba, should say something about their reputation.

The rumors are saying that if Deezer hopes to have a strong launch in the US, they would need to team up with a strong company with reach, and Microsoft is one of those companies. In fact teaming up with Microsoft could make sense as it would allow Deezer to possibly integrate into Microsoft’s products, such as the Windows platform (maybe even Windows Phone?) and even the Xbox platform. This will allow Deezer to compete with the likes of Spotify while providing Microsoft with a streaming music service of their own without having to start from scratch. This rumor is particularly interesting, especially since we have also heard that Microsoft could be interested in Winamp and SHOUTcast as well, another media platform albeit not exactly the same as Deezer.

What do you guys make of this? Does this sound like a good idea for Microsoft and Deezer?

Microsoft Rumored To Be Interested In Acquiring Deezer original content from Ubergizmo.

Deezer is a music service that has been available in some countries for years. Deezer has been considering steeping into the US market for years and has been looking for a partner to make that step. So far, no partner has stepped forward. Deezer co-founder Daniel Marhely recently announced, “2014 will be an American year […]

If you’re not already fully signed up to the likes of Spotify, Rdio MOG or the rest, there will soon be another music option: the French streaming service Deezer will launch in the US in 2014.

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At some point, competition and catch-up should iron out many of the differences between rival cloud storage platforms. For now though, each option focuses on slightly different things, and Stream Nation’s main specialism is private video streaming, which it has just made accessible to users in the US, UK and elsewhere. Unlike Flickr Pro or Dropbox, for example, there’s no limit to the length or file size of a video clip that can be streamed to someone else’s browser. The service’s founder, Jonathan Benassaya, who also co-founded Deezer, says he originally designed it to help him share vacation videos with his family.

Then again, there are few hold-ups to consider: you need to install an uploader application to store photos and videos, unless you’re grabbing them from Dropbox or elsewhere on the web, and from our experience the whole process is rather slow — it took a good 20 minutes to encode a 90MB clip we brought over from Dropbox. Furthermore, you can only share a video with people who are also registered on Stream Nation, and you have to pay for anything over 2GB (or suffer the indignity of inviting all your Google contacts, which nets you a bonus 8GB). So yeah, this won’t suit everyone, especially if they need unlimited space or if their friends and family are savvy enough to know what to do with a Dropbox link, but it might just come in handy.

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Via: LA Times, The Verge

Source: Stream Nation

As much as we like extending our music universe through apps within the likes of Deezer and Spotify, that wider experience hasn’t usually carried over to mobile. Deezer, at least, thinks it can put those apps inside our pockets. App Studio now supports building add-ons for both Android and iOS devices, giving travelers music and social components beyond what Deezer can provide on its own. The company isn’t relying just on phones and tablets to pad its customer base, though. It’s also improving the behind-the-scenes framework to bolster gaming through its API, and an affiliate program will pay social app creators every time one of their users subscribes to Deezer. Us listeners will just have to wait for developers to implement App Studio and the API changes before we reap any potential rewards.

Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Audio/Video, Tablets, Internet, Mobile

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Source: Deezer for Developers