After years of growth, Spotify is now gravitating away from the use of P2P technology, something it has used from the start as one method for delivering music to subscribers. … Continue reading
Reports and surveys indicate that the popularity of music streaming services is on the rise, particularly in the U.S., where digital music downloads have dipped considerably over the past year. Since this is proving to be such a lucrative market, it makes sense that companies already competing in it would want to do much better. According to a new report Spotify and Sprint may soon join sources. The music streaming service will get access to millions of potential new users, while Sprint subscribers will get free trials and discounts.
Sprint And Spotify Reportedly Joining Forces original content from Ubergizmo.
Following in the footsteps of the AT&T and Beats Music partnership, Spotify is reportedly planning to partner with Sprint to offer its customers an easier way to pay for the … Continue reading
Spotify is one of the more popular streaming services out there for music fans. It has changed the colors of its user interface in an effort to be more uniform … Continue reading
Today, Spotify starts rolling out a new darker redesign. It’s the biggest stylistic change we’ve seen since the service launched
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There has been much debate over a Spotify IPO. The company has long been rumored to be willing to follow rival Pandora, which is already listed as a public company. Spotify hasn’t made an official comments about a possible IPO though it may be talking with banks who may subsequently become underwriters should it go ahead with the plan. Quartz reports, citing people with knowledge of the plans, that Spotify is currently discussing a possible IPO through informal talks with major banks. Formal talks to get them onboard as underwrites might begin next month.
Spotify IPO Expected This Fall original content from Ubergizmo. 
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In their decade long run, Last.fm has seen many ups and downs. In late 2012 the popular Internet radio service was cutting back its scale and turned to paid-only subscriptions. … Continue reading
As the on-demand music streaming industry grows and competition with it (rumors that Apple may be among that competition surfaced last week), Spotify is looking to draw in a larger … Continue reading
Which particular business entity sets out to fail on purpose, and intends to run a charity instead without making some profit to keep it going and growing? None, I suppose, and so the same principle of avoiding defeat while attempting to carve a niche out in this highly competitive world has caused Spotify to put on offer a free, shuffle-based version of its music streaming service on both iOS and Android platforms in the past, and Spotify intends to continue in that particular direction by offering college students in the U.S. a 50% discount when one signs up for a new Premium subscription.
Spotify Premium Is Now 50% Cheaper For US College Students original content from Ubergizmo. 
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China has a reputation for keeping some of the most popular internet services out of its country. The sheer size of it makes it a very lucrative market. Even if they aren’t blocked, some services voluntarily keep away from the country. With global music streaming revenues on the rise, the People’s Republic seems like the market to target. That’s exactly what Nokia MixRadio is going to do, its actually the first global music streaming service to launch in the country that complements its Great Wall with a Great Firewall.
Nokia MixRadio will be available in China later this week. It hopes to target the over 80 percent of internet users in the country, a figure that comes in a tad above 500 million people, all of which access the internet through a mobile device. Its definitely one of the largest individual markets in the world for music streaming, larger than any of the other 31 markets MixRadio is available in.
If you’ve never heard about Nokia MixRadio, its a music streaming service that’s quite similar to Pandora, Spotify and the nascent Beats Music. Even though some of its competitors are well established, none of them service China, which means that MixRadio has got a huge advantage over all of them.
In order to push its music streaming service in the country, Nokia has tapped popular Chinese musicians like Khalil Fong, DJ Wordy and Tia Ray to curate playlists of hit local music.
Nokia MixRadio First Global Music Streaming Service To Launch In China original content from Ubergizmo. 
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