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Surprise – phone calls are so much more than just voice
We talk about “voice” services being a core component of fixed and mobile operators’ service portfolios – but they’re more than phone calls. Read more…
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Tencent charging for more content drives up profit
China’s Tencent Music Entertainment Group said it had started charging for more of its pay-for-streaming services helped drive up profit above expectations. Read more…
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Spotify loses one of India’s oldest record labels
Music streaming service Spotify Technology SA said it will remove all songs belonging to one of India’s oldest record labels Read more…
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Spotify tries its hand in price conscious India
Spotify, the world’s most popular paid music streaming service, has launched in India, stepping into a price-sensitive market. Read more…
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Video ads and podcasts are paying off big for Spotify
COLOGNE, Germany (Reuters) – Spotify is increasingly attracting viewers as well as listeners to its free music streaming service and is finding new ways to target adverts and podcasts at customers, its head of global Read more…
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Genie Music plans 5G music platform (with holograms!)
KT Corp’s music streaming service, Genie Music, has announced plans to launch a new music platform that will leverage 5G to deliver visual music content, including holograms. Genie Music CEO Kim Hoon-bae said at a Read more…
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eMusic seeks $70 million for blockchain royalty-tracking platform
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…
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YouTube revamps music service to tap local tastes
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…
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Streaming is officially biggest revenue source for music biz: IFPI
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…
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Blockchain smart speaker pays music artists in cryptocurrency
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…
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Spotify takes on Pandora’s streaming stations with new app: report
(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…
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Apple and Spotify just fortified their streaming duopoly
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…
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Microsoft kills off Groove, gives users Spotify migration option
(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…
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PCCW OTT gets $100m injection from Hony, Foxconn and Temasek
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…
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Spotify bags second major-label deal as Sony signs on
(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…
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Nationalux plans to launch AR music platform for Hololens
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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Napster pumps up Rakuten music streaming service
Napster has announced a new partnership with Japanese internet services company Rakuten to enhance its on-demand music streaming service, Rakuten Music. Under the partnership, Napster will deliver song playback and curated playlists from its catalog Read more…