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Pandora-powered channels will come to SiriusXMs app this year
SiriusXM this week offered a few more details on how it plans to leverage its newest asset, Pandora, following its $3.5 billion acquisition of the streaming music service last year, which officially closes on Friday. At the time of the deal, the company spoke about the potential for cross-promotion opportunities between the services and new […]
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Lin-Manuel Miranda in talks for ‘Moana’ sequel
Where are my clothes again?Image: mashable composite: To the stars and LeAnn Mueller Tom DeLonge is a mysterious man of many talents. A former member of Blink-182 and frontman of Angels & Airwaves, most know DeLonge as a as a kick-ass singer and songwriter. But he’s also an author, director, and entrepreneur who launched To […]
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Apple’s latest acquisition highlights how important Apple Music is for its future
The logo of the music streaming app Apple Music is seen on a mobile screen and a laptop screen. The numbers of people using music streaming apps grow. The biggest one is the Swedish Spotify with 83 million paying users and about 100 others, that use the free version. (Photo by Alexander Pohl/NurPhoto via Getty […]
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No, Apple didnt acquire music analytics startup Asaii, it hired the founders to work on Apple Music
On the heels of news of not one but two acquisitions from Apple last week, a report surfaced yesterday that Apple had picked up yet another company, the music analytics startup Asaii, for under $100 million; the report led to a “confirmation” from a shareholder in a separate report. But as it turns out, neither […]
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SoundCloud finally lets more musicians monetize four years later
SoundCloud moves painfully slow for a tech company, and no one feels that pain more than musicians who are popular on the site but don’t get paid. 10 years since SoundCloud first launched, and four years since it opened an invite-only program allowing just the very biggest artists to earn a cut of the ad […]
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Sources: Apple is acquiring music recognition app Shazam
As Spotify continues to inch towards a public listing, Apple is making a move of its own to step up its game in music services. Sources tell us that the company is close to acquiring Shazam, the popular app that lets people identify any song, TV show, film or advert in seconds, by listening to […]