Business & Tech Apple Slapped With $2 Billion Fine In EU Over Alleged Anti-Competitive Apple Music Practices Regulators in the European Union have hit Apple with a $2 billion fine (actually 1.8 billion euros) over allegations that Apple Music has been muscling out other streaming music platforms like Spotify in the App Store.
Arts & Entertainment Lots of People Were Assigned Berkeley as Their Spotify Wrapped 'Sound Town,' But Also San Luis Obispo? Why? The annual flurry of Spotify Wrapped year-end lists and genre leanings dropped last week, and like your zodiac chart, these categorizations have come to mean something for multiple generations who rely on Spotify for most of their music.
Business & Tech Spotify Says It Will Add Content Warnings to Podcasts; Joe Rogan Offers Half-Apology Facing a growing crisis last week, Spotify rushed to make a public pledge about dealing with misinformation on podcasts — but the company stopped short of saying it would pull down any content or end its relationship with controversial anti-vaxx bro Joe Rogan.
Arts & Entertainment Neil Young Demands His Music Be Pulled From Spotify Over Joe Rogan’s Anti-Vaccine Antics In an angry online letter that has since been deleted, Neil Young declared that Spotify “can have Rogan or Young. Not both,” but the streaming service continues to pay Joe Rogan $100 million to spew anti-vaxx misinformation.
SF News Apple Is Trying To Buy Jay Z's Streaming Service Tidal Apple is apparently making a play to up its streaming game, with The Wall Street Journal reporting that the Cupertino-based company is in talks with Tidal to buy the company. Acquiring the Jay
Arts & Entertainment In A Move To Compete Directly With Spotify, Pandora Buys Rdio Oakland-based Pandora just announced that it's purchasing the assets of San Francisco-based Rdio for $75 million, contingent on the latter company getting bankruptcy protection. As shouldn't be surprising given the rapid rise of
Arts & Entertainment Happn & Spotify Aim to Prove the Quickest Way to One's Heart is Through the Ears Music speaks volumes about a person, no matter how loud it's played. We identify with certain songs at different times, and those tunes can change with our mood. Are you currently a Death
Arts & Entertainment Uber and Spotify Partner So That You Can Stream Your Playlists In The Car Just the other day a friend and I were wondering why Uber and Spotify hadn't partnered yet so that you could stream your preferred playlist the minute you got in an Uber car.
SF News Ed Lee Announces Spotify's Move To MidMarket Joining Twitter, ten other tech companies, a Coi spinoff, a clothing designer and a gastropub, Swedish music streaming company Spotify will move its headquarters to MidMarket in the Warfield Building. "Spotify is innovating
