At media companies, 2018 might be remembered as the year that someone finally got data sharing right. To be sure, there were some missteps. Facebook’s series of data scandals cost the social network around a quarter of its value. But Twitter, Google, Reddit, Snapchat, and even Facebook each tweaked their privacy policies to better balance […]
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Music Streaming: What Your Options Look Like Now
How Apple’s competition stacks up.
Listening To Music In An Age Of Infinite Choice
How unlimited access changes our relationship with music.
Samsung’s Nonfat Streaming Alternative: Meet Milk Video
Let’s hope it’s not another ho-hum Galaxy exclusive.
Spotify Opens Up To Uber—But Closes Down Integration With Other Apps
So long, bizdev 2.0.
YouTube Music Key Is Coming For Spotify And Pandora
For $7.99, YouTube Music Key offers ad-free listening.
Spotify Will Let You Share Your Account With Family And Friends
At a 50% discount, too.
Google Wants Chromecast’s Allure To Rub Off On Its Music Service
Chromecast owners get a free streaming-music subscription.
All Roads Lead To Prime: Amazon Introduces Music Streaming Service
Amazon Prime Music has a lot less to do with music and a lot more to do with Prime.
Facebook’s Dream Of Sharing Every Little Moment Of Your Life Is Effectively Dead
Turns out people don’t like automatically sharing everything they do to Facebook—and with a change to its software, the social network has finally acknowledged that.
With A New App, Sonos Proves It’s Ready For The Competition
We spent some time with the reinvented Sonos app—which may be the key to the modular speaker-maker’s survival.
Can Technology Predict The Grammys?
TV and social media? It’s complicated.
How Beats Music Could Save Streaming From A Premature Ice Age
Dr. Dre’s new streaming music service looks to have learned from the mistakes of Spotify, Pandora et al.
Free Music Or Not, Spotify Still Has a Paid-User Problem
Giving out freebies Oprah-style may not be enough to keep the streaming-music service afloat.
Every Day It’s Shufflin’: Spotify Still Limits Mobile Music
Spotify is giving users free access on smartphones, but only if you hit “shuffle.”
Get Ready For The Streaming-Music Die-Off
The streaming era is the next music industry ice age.
Spotify Demystifies Its Business Model, Sort Of—But Disgruntled Artists May Not Care
Finally we know how much musicians make per stream—and boy, is it not much.
Rise Of The Renter Class: In A Spotify World, Need We Own Anything?
The more we put into our digital devices, the less we seem to own it. Something’s got to give.
Google Just Launched A Grenade At Spotify — And It Just Might Work
With the launch of All Access, Google joins the streaming music business. Why the giant could disrupt the space dominated by Spotify and Rdio.
The Ultimate Streaming Music Service: Just Merge Rdio And Spotify
Spotify and Rdio are the best music subscription services in the U.S., but neither is perfect. Here’s what the ultimate streaming service would look like.