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Samsung’s digital assistant Bixby will be updated with Spotify support later this year, according to an executive of the Seoul-based phone maker. Samsung Product Marketing Director Jonathan Wong took to stage earlier today during the Galaxy Note 8‘s official announcement to talk about numerous features of the company’s latest Android flagship and revealed Bixby’s incoming support […]

There’s an ever-growing list of companies taking a stance against hate-speech and now the fight is being brought to the digital music industry as well. Among those, three providers, in particular, have opted to take a hard-line approach to the issue – Google, Spotify, and Deezer. It isn’t currently known exactly what will get a […]

Spotify has further expanded its lead in the music streaming segment by attracting 60 million paying subscribers in recent times, the company revealed earlier this week. The development marks another important milestone for the service that now managed to extend its lead over Apple Music, with the increase itself being Spotify’s fastest subscriber gain till […]

Spotify and Warner Music are close to reaching a new music licensing deal, several sources familiar with their negotiations said on Monday. Both sides reportedly believe that they could agree to a new set of royalties and licenses by early fall as the deal could be concluded as soon as September. The latest development comes […]

Spotify has entered into an official partnership with Sony Music according to a new report. At the moment there are no clear details as to what the partnership terms are between Spotify and Sony Music, but it’s possible that it could afford Spotify a break on the percentage of revenue that it will have to […]

Spotify, one of the more popular streaming music services, is currently working on a rather interesting new feature. First spotted by a reddit user, it appears that Spotify is working on an Auto Mode or a Driving Mode. As you can likely tell by the name, this mode would appear while you’re driving. The idea […]

Spotify is extremely popular, but if you live outside of its service area or simply prefer Google Play Music, a new Chrome extension called Playify will open any Spotify links you come across in Google Play Music. Google Play Music and Spotify both have vast libraries, so opening a Spotify link with Playify that doesn’t have […]

Spotify lets you build playlists with friends through a new feature integration in Messenger. Spotify calls this Group Playlists, and if you’re a Spotify user who also happens to use Messenger to communicate with friends and family and you’d like to share some of your favorite music with them, getting things going is pretty easy […]

The Samsung Gear S3 Classic and Gear S3 Frontier have both gotten a pretty important feature, this week. And that is the ability to play Spotify music offline. This is a feature that the Gear S3 and other smartwatches, have had for other music services like Google Play Music, but hadn’t previously been available for […]

Spotify is one of the more popular streaming music services out there right now, and today it announced that it has over 140 million monthly active users on its service. Despite having such a huge user-base, the streaming music company is still deeply in the red. The company is in the red due to a […]

There are multiple reports surfacing right now, that the Verizon Galaxy S8 is not working at all with Spotify and Android Auto. We have confirmed that this is an issue, when you switch to Spotify for the music input, Android Auto simply says that Spotify isn’t working right now. Spotify is typically pretty iffy about […]

Earlier this week it was confirmed that Spotify has acquired Niland, a music artificial intelligence start-up. It’s thought that this acquisition is the latest in the company’s efforts to improve the backend of its service which recommends music to their listeners. Spotify released a statement on their website, following the acquisition in which it said […]

Spotify has been looking for ways to entice more of its free users to upgrade to their premium service. After all, the company has been posting an operating loss for its entirety of existence. Their latest plea is in a partnership with Capital One. Today, the company announced that those that have a Capital One […]

Google and Apple are abusing their dominant mobile market position by pushing their own products and services at the expense of those developed by independent companies, several European startups including Spotify, Rocket Internet, and Deezer wrote in a letter sent to the European Commission on Thursday. While first reports of the letter emerged on Friday, […]

Spotify has finally brought their Behind The Lyrics feature to Android so users who are streaming music through the service can see the meanings and story behind the lyrics of the songs they love and listen to the most. Behind The lyrics was created for Spotify in partnership with Genius, a service which also has […]

Spotify could be looking to get into the wearables market according to a new job listing that showed up on their careers page, although it is worth noting that the listing no longer seems to be posted to the career board, so it’s possible that Spotify may have taken it down at this point. However, […]

Spotify today announced it’s expanding the availability of its Spotify for Students service to 33 new countries across the globe. Previously available in the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany, the service can now also be accessed by users living in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Philippines, Singapore and many other countries. Spotify […]

Spotify has announced a new deal with Universal Music Group that is likely to displease some of the free users of the service. Speculation has been ongoing that Spotify might need to change up some of its services to be able to successfully proceed with its IPO plans and as of today, it seems the […]

Spotify has acquired the video streaming app MightyTV. Spotify posted a press release on their website today announcing that the popular digital media streaming platform has acquired MightyTV and that its CEO and Founder Brian Adams would be coming on board. Adams and a team of MightyTV experts will be joining the Spotify team, with Adams as […]

Spotify will make some of its music available exclusively to paid subscribers, the Financial Times reports. The popular streaming service is reportedly close to signing a new set of licensing deals with major record labels that have been in the works for months now. The deals are said to help Spotify advance its ambitions to go […]

According to leaked internal documents, Spotify either has, or is, considering ending its app partnership with Uber. This information comes by way of documents seen by The Verge, which highlight that internally, Spotify is finding it difficult to decide whether they should continue to partner with Uber, while the company remains the subject of various […]

Spotify has purchased audio recognition firm Sonalytic and plans to incorporate their technology into the service and application, though not necessarily in the way that many people might think based on what Sonalytic’s technology sounds like. When you hear “audio recognition” you might think that Spotify will be using this technology in the same way […]

A Tweet from Cody Kloepfer, and several other sources beginning around the end of last month has revealed that Spotify may be looking to up its game in the music streaming space. The tweeted image presented by Kleopfer is fairly minimal on details, but the gist of Spotify’s reportedly incoming Hi-Fi subscription can be gleaned […]

Spotify, the music streaming service, has managed to reach another milestone in terms of paid subscribers, and this time around, the company has hit 50 million paid subscribers. This news first surfaced after a tweet was posted by the official Spotify account on Twitter which stated, “Thank you to our 50 million subscribers.”. As Spotify has over […]

Spotify is moving its U.S. headquarters to 4 World Trade Center in Manhattan, the company announced on Wednesday. The music streaming service will be leasing approximately 400,000 square feet for its new offices which will allow it to create 1,000 new jobs in the area. Spotify said it’s planning to relocate and add new jobs by early 2018, […]

Waves Nx lets Spotify users listen to music in 3D Audio following an update of the Waves Nx application. The update which goes live today, pairs with the Waves Nx head tracker device which can be attached to any headset to provide users with the more immersive sound of their favorite music. The head tracker, […]

New data highlights that Netflix and Spotify were among the top revenue apps of 2016. Sensor Tower has compiled statistics on non-gaming apps – the most downloaded and the ones that generated the most revenue during 2016. It may surprise you to find out that the top apps downloaded are not always the ones that […]

While it’s a shame that Spotify wasn’t available on the Samsung Gear S3 smartwatch as soon as the said wearable hit the market last month, the good news is that the popular streaming service is now finally available on both the Gear S3 Classic and the Gear S3 Frontier. In fact, as of today, Spotify […]

It was rumored back in September that Spotify was in advanced talks with SoundCloud in order to acquire the service, something that would have likely strengthened Spotify’s position in the music streaming business. According to a new report out of TechCrunch and based on information from an unnamed source, it now appears as though Spotify […]

Owners of Sonos sound systems will tell you that their quality makes them worth owning, but they can be a pain to operate at times. Unlike the average Bluetooth speaker, setting up and using a Sonos system wirelessly takes a bit of extra setup work on both ends. One of the most common ways to […]

Spotify has been around for over a decade but despite boasting over 100 million active users — approximately 40% of which are paying customers — the said music streaming service isn’t quite profitable. Namely, Spotify’s owners decided to run the service by relying on some basic principles of venture capitalism. In other words, over the years, Spotify raised […]

Samsung Australia has confirmed that there is still a dedicated Spotify application coming to the Gear S3 smartwatch. The news on the official music streaming application for the Gear S3 was a response to a comment on Facebook, more specifically the Facebook page of Samsung Australia, and they state that the app should be expected […]

Not too long ago, it was reported that Spotify would be purchasing SoundCloud, and while there doesn’t appear to be any sort of confirmation or even a leaked sum of how much the deal could be worth, the two firms are said to “be in advanced talks”. For the streaming industry, Spotify is definitely the […]

Streaming music services seem like a dime a dozen in this day and age, but that set of options may be about to get just a little bit smaller in the near future as a new report claims that Spotify, the leading service in the market, is in discussion with SoundCloud to purchase the company. […]

Spotify is the most popular streaming music service around, with over 100 million active monthly users, and the developers continue to improve the app even further by frequently adding new useful features. Recently, Spotify added a new feature called Discover Weekly, which learns from your listening habits, and compiles a weekly playlist of music you […]

Tinder has announced a new feature for their dating app and service, and in partnership with Spotify they will be allowing users to link their Spotify accounts and essentially broadcast their musical tastes to potential matches. After linking your Spotify account, Tinder will allow users to choose which of their favorite artists they want to […]

The hugely popular and widely successful music streaming app, Spotify, has been around for over a decade but only launched its mobile app in 2011. Since then, it has managed to gain millions of users, boasting up to half a billion users, though only about 100 million of those are active users. While the streaming service is […]

Spotify has just recently redesigned its Kids & Family category to help kids with learning at an early age. While the Kids category itself is not new, Spotify’s tweaks mean they take more a focused approach to parents and their children, with a mixture of songs fitting for the playlist as well as activities that […]

Spotify is one of the most popular music streaming services around the world. Many people believe that the online music streaming industry is the only solution to music piracy. With the decline of physical media as a source of music to end users and a source of revenue for companies and artists, the importance of […]

From time to time, Google will offer up some sweet promotions or offers for those that own a Chromecast or Chromecast Audio. The latest offers include two months of Spotify Premium, or 90 days of Google Play Music for free. Both of which will cost you $9.99/month after the offer is up. Although Google Play […]

Nostalgia can be a powerful, powerful thing and there are few things in life that help to channel nostalgia like music and gaming, especially in 2016. We see remakes and remasters of games launching on new systems a few times a year, and gamers are more than happy to pay for one of their favorite […]

Facebook Messenger, the messaging app by Facebook, currently has 800 million users and 96 million active users each month. It was the fastest growing app with a 31% increase in users from 2014. To keep a steady stream of new users and to keep the old users satisfied and never bored of the app, Facebook constantly adds new […]

Ever since Napster entered our collective consciousness back in the late nineties, the way we listen to music has never been the same. With the advent of freely available music online, the bulky CD Players were on their way out by the start of this millennium, and in their place, came the tiny little MP3-players […]

Even though Spotify earned more than $2 billion out of $4.5 billion that the entire music streaming industry made last year, the company isn’t exactly floating on cash. As per reports, Spotify paid over 80% of its earnings to record labels and individual artists, and as a result ended up suffering an operating loss of over […]

Spotify made some pretty big changes to their family plan today. Before today’s announcement, their family plan used to offer two accounts for $14.99, three for $19.99, four for $24.99 and five for $29.99 per month. That is all out of the window now, with Spotify offering up to six accounts for just $14.99. That’s […]

Today has already been a day which has seen a number of Android TV-related announcements coming through. The first of which was one from Google which looked to detail the expansion of the platform in 2016. As part of that announcement, Google confirmed that a number of new products would become available, including one from […]

Carriers often come out with a number of features and services to try and maintain their current customer base and also attract new users. For instance, if you are of the Sprint persuasion and looking for a large amount of data to burn through, then their XXL plan now comes with 12 months of free […]

While the streaming music market is already saturated with tons of options for users, services like Spotify which remain among the top choices are looking for new ways to branch out and expand on what they offer. Back in the beginning of the year rumors began circulating that Spotify would eventually be adding video into […]

Spotify is easily one of the top contenders for best streaming music service, but like everything Spotify has to continue evolving to keep the interest of users as the world of technology evolves around them. Just last month, Spotify links were made sharable through Facebook’s Messenger chat application on mobile devices making it that much easier to […]

Several hundreds of Spotify users have apparently suffered a quite significant privacy breach as a list containing their account credentials including usernames, passwords, and email addresses has reportedly been posted on a website called Pastebin. Several of affected users claim that they were compromised a few days ago while Spotify insists that its popular streaming […]

Regardless of music genre preference, the chances are good that you do know who Kanye West is. You may even be familiar with the fact that West released a new album not too long ago entitled ‘The Life Of Pablo” and you may also be aware that the album became available as a Tidal exclusive. Essentially meaning […]

Intex Unveils Cloud Jewel Handset With 2GB Of RAM In India The Cloud Jewel is Intex’s new entry-level smartphones. This device sports a 5-inch 720p (1280 x 720) display, along with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of expandable internal storage. The phone is fueled by MediaTek’s MT6735 64-bit quad-core SoC, and a 2,500mAh battery is […]

The music streaming industry is one which has certainly made its mark on technology. However, it is also an industry that has been seeing a number of new companies looking to grab their fair share of the user base. A move which has meant the competition between these streaming services has increased dramatically. As most […]

If you typically get your dose of music videos through Vevo, the recently launched mobile applications which are available on Android and iOS are making it possible for users to receive a more personalized experience moving forward. While personalization within the Vevo app was possible prior to today’s changes, users would initially have to open […]

The way we listen to music has changed dramatically over the past 20 years, and in the last decade especially we’ve steadily moved away from dedicated to music players to letting our phone do all the work. As network connections got quicker and being able to get access to fast 3G or even 4G LTE […]

Spotify, perhaps the most popular streaming music service, has been a bit of hot water as of late. Since word came out that Spotify hadn’t paid out all of the royalties that they should have, many haven’t been too happy with the service. Especially artists that were missing their royalties. However, today Spotify and the […]

Facebook Messenger has been gaining a number of updates recently. Ones which look to improve the overall functionality of the app and of course, keep you in the app for longer. The latest of which is an interesting one as it now seems that Spotify has been somewhat integrated within the Messenger app. The main […]

Spotify has been on a roll lately. Introducing all sorts of new features, and one of the most popular features that they introduced was “Discover Weekly”. What Discover Weekly did was it made a weekly playlist customized to your liking. It would be curated based on the music you listened to in the past week […]

Yes you’ve read that headline correctly, Spotify is moving its entire data storage infrastructure from its own mix of home-grown and leased servers to Google’s own Cloud Platform.  While this sounds like some sort of merger or weird conflict of interest given Google Play Music’s direct competition status with Spotify, it actually makes a lot […]

It’s been a turbulent last year or so for music streaming services, with Apple Music and YouTube Red hitting their stride as Pandora and iHeartRadio see some decline and some services shutting down entirely. Through it all, Spotify has managed to stay fairly strong despite a relatively low count of premium users, gathering a good […]