JERUSALEM (Reuters) – US-Israeli digital music store eMusic said on Tuesday it plans to raise $70 million to build a blockchain-based music distribution and royalty management platform to ensure artists and service providers get a Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – YouTube is hiring music experts across the world to make its revamped music streaming subscription more locally “authentic,” officials at YouTube, a unit of Google, told Reuters on Friday. Music programmers Read more…
LONDON (Reuters) – Online streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music have become the recording industry’s single biggest revenue source, overtaking physical sales of CDs and digital downloads for the first time, a trade group said Read more…
There’s a new smart speaker in town called Volareo, and it has a specific mission – leverage blockchain technology to help music artists actually make money from music streaming for a change. Streaming music services Read more…
(Reuters) – Music streaming service Spotify has been testing an app to rival Pandora Media’s streaming stations, TechCrunch reported on Tuesday. The new app, called “Stations by Spotify”, was visible on the Google Play Store Read more…
With a new alliance between Spotify and Tencent and the acquisition of Shazam by Apple, the big players are getting their ducks in a row to dominate the global streaming music industry. Following on from Read more…
(Reuters) – Microsoft said on Monday it would discontinue its Groove Music Pass subscription service, allowing its existing customers to move their playlists and music collections to Spotify. The Groove Music app will no longer Read more…
PCCW Media has launched a new holding company to develop its OTT content business that brings in Hony Capital, Foxconn Ventures and Temasek as investors. The new company, PCCW International OTT (Cayman Islands) Holdings Limited Read more…
(Reuters) – Spotify has reached a licensing deal with a second major label, Sony Music Entertainment, according to media reports, setting the stage for a US stock market listing by the music streaming leader. Recently Read more…
The Nationalux Research Center says it is making plans to launch what it is billing as the first augmented reality (AR) music service platform utilizing Microsoft Hololens. Nationalux said the AR music service platform can Read more…
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