In a statement audio-only chat app Clubhouse said, it will launch a spatial audio feature to make voices sound as if they’re coming from different directions, in efforts aimed at making virtual conversations and performances feel more life-like. Backed by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz Clubhouse, jumpstarted the social audio trend last year and became…
Storytel , a Swedish audiobook streaming group has teamed up with Spotify to allow its subscribers to listen to its library of audiobooks on Spotify from later this year. Storytel offers listening and reading of more than 500,000 titles across 25 markets and competes with the likes of Amazon’s Audible. “We will also be tapping into the opportunity…
On Monday, digital music company Believe stated it plans to come out with a stock market listing in Paris with an aim to raise around $608 million (500 million euros) so as to finance its expansion. Believe’s digital music brands, Believe Distribution Services, TuneCore, Groove Attack, Nuclear Blast, Naïve, and AllPoints, compete in a sector…
On Tuesday, Spotify Technology SA made its long-awaited debut in South Korea marking its entry into the sixth largest music market in the world. Spotify has a market presence in more than 90 countries and has entered into several new markets in the last two years including India, Middle East and Russia. It will have…
In a statement, Facebook Inc stated, it has tweaked its approach towards political ads and has introduced limited changes, which includes an option for users to turn off certain ad-targeting tools. Facebook has defied critics’ demands of barring political ads in its platform which often spew out fake news. Facebook, the world’s biggest social network,…
Apple’s unfair business practices had led Spotify to lodge a complaint with the EU’s antitrust regulators. In a potentially significant development, Spotify has filed a complaint with the European Commission against Apple saying Cupertino unfair business practices limits rivals to its own Apple Music streaming service. According to Spotify’s complaint, “Apple’s control of its App…
With a population of 1.3 billion and with more than 400 million smartphone users, India is a massive market for streaming service. In less than 7 days, Spotify Technology SA, the world’s most popular paid music streaming service, has racked up more than 1 million unique users in India across its free and premium services.…
The music streaming giant will use Citadel Securities, as a market maker, and Morgan Stanley to set its opening price on the NYSE on Tuesday. The New York Stock Exchange has set the reference price for Spotify Technology SA’s shares at $132. Its shares are expected to start trading on Tuesday. Incidentally, Spotify is pursuing…
In its lawsuit Wixen Music Publishing has alleged that Spotify has made available thousands of songs to its users without getting a direct or a compulsory license from it which allows it to either distribute or reproduce the songs. Wixen Music Publishing Inc has sued Spotify, a music streaming company for allegedly using thousands of…
Ahead of its launch, Spotify and the music group of China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd have aligned their interests for future negotiations with music labels. On Friday, a report by the Wall Street Journal stated China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd and Sweden’s Spotify AB are in talks to swap stakes of up to 10% of each other’s…
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