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LIBERTYVILLE, Ill., July 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Spotify, the digital music service loved by more than 10 million Europeans, announced its launch into the U.S., with Motorola as an exclusive launch partner. Motorola Mobility, Inc. (NYSE: MMI), Spotify's mobile device and tablet partner, will be launching a number of marketing campaigns in the coming weeks to offer its customers coveted early access to Spotify's on-demand music streaming service. "The collaboration between Motorola...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., July 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sonos, Inc., the leading manufacturer of wireless music systems, today announced that Spotify is now available in the U.S. for streaming to every room of the home, wirelessly, via the award-winning Sonos Multi-Room Music System. With a Premium Spotify account, Sonos customers can enjoy on-demand access to Spotify's library of more than 13 million songs. To learn more about how Spotify works on Sonos, please visit www.sonos.com/Spotify....

Europe's hugely popular music streaming service, Spotify, is finally coming to the United States after months of licensing setbacks and other technical difficulties. A new headline on the service's website says: "Spotify is coming to the US. The award-winning music service that's taken Europe by storm will soon be landing on US shores. Millions of tracks ready to play instantly, on your computer and your phone." The site does not specify an exact date when the service will debut in America,...

LOS ANGELES, June 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Radical.FM, Inc. (radical.fm) announced today the immediate availability of the public beta of its new, personal internet radio service. Radical.FM combines user tailored music radio stations (like Pandora(TM) and Slacker(TM)) with on-demand playlist functionality (like Rhapsody(TM) and Spotify(TM)), and adds social networking and personal broadcasting capabilities, in one integrated service. The patent-pending RadCast(TM) feature permits personal...

Radical.FM Allows Genres To Be Blended For The Listener's Perfect Music Mix, Unlike Competitors "Intuitive" Systems (Pandora, Last, Slacker, et al.) and Also Includes Powerful Personal Broadcasting Capabilities With LiveShare and DeeJay Features Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 22, 2011 Radical.FM, Inc. (http://www.radical.fm) announced today the invitation-only private beta launch of Radical.FM, it's new, personal internet radio service. Building and expanding on experience gained from...

The new music service Kiwi enables mobile phone operators, handset manufacturers, retailers and media companies to compete for the projected 25 million consumers in Europe paying for a cloud based music service by 2014. Stockholm, Sweden (PRWEB) June 10, 2011 Today PlusFourSix kicks off the non-commercial beta for Kiwi, Europe's first premium cloud based music service also offering music videos. Potential partners such as operators, handset manufacturers, retailers and media companies...

Amazon was the first to open up a large-scale cloud-based music streaming service which allows users to store digital music online and Apple is quickly moving to begin its version of a similar program within the next few months. Google, however, is set to announce its own streaming music storage service at the on-going I/O developers conference, Reuters is reporting."Google Android Music" will allow music bought from Amazon or Apple's iTunes, or uploaded from a personal collection, to be held...

Sony Corp.'s PlayStation Portable (PSP) will have the capability to stream music beginning April 14, the AFP news agency reports. The service will be named Music Unlimited and will be powered by Qriocity, which is a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment specializing in streaming music, games, e-books and video on demand services. The Music Unlimited service can already stream music to your PC along with many other Sony devices including newer model Bravia televisions, Blu-ray disk players...

ZapTunes (http://www.zaptunes.com), a music subscription service and social network that has been becoming a hit among music lovers lately, is going to launch an app for iPhone and iPad very soon. San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) February 23, 2011 ZapTunes (http://www.zaptunes.com ), a music subscription service and social network that has been becoming a hit among music lovers lately, is going to launch an app for iPhone and iPad very soon. This app will provide a lot of free content to the...

According to technology blog TechCrunch, Internet music service Spotify is in the process of closing at least $100 million financing led by venture firm DST. TechCrunch said, citing unnamed sources, that the deal would value Spotify at about $1 billion.  This deal would add to DST's portfolio of online companies including Facebook, Zynga and Groupon. Yuri Milner, the founder of DST, said in November that the firm was seeking to invest in companies that typically have a $1 billion-dollar...