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A1 Telekom launches data free music app for Austria

11/08/2018

A1 Telekom launches the A1 Xplore Music app for Austria offering over 30 million tracks and audiobooks. A1 Telekom customers will be able to stream music from Austria without any data consumption in Austria and the EU for up to 12 months. Music streaming has recently overtaken physical CD sales in Austria – a trend that began years ago and is now transforming the entire music industry. With A1 Xplore Music, A1 Telekom now offers its customers a music streaming service […]

Onkyo to support DEEZER HiFi via free firmware update

11/08/2018

Onkyo is to include support for DEEZER HiFi via free firmware update for its AV receivers and networked audio products, it announced this week. The company will be releasing firmware updates throughout the month of August to add DEEZER support to a large number of its AV receivers and networked audio devices. DEEZER is one of the most popular subscription-based, streaming music services, with access to a library of more than 53 million songs. […]

Spotify and Samsung form new partnership

11/08/2018

Spotify and Samsung form new partnership to give Samsung users a seamless listening experience between devices. Spotify has been named as Samsung’s new go-to music service provider offering the only full integration to Samsung devices which includes Bixby – Samsung’s premier voice solution. In a blog posting, Spotify CEO, Daniel Ek explained the reasons behind the Spotify and Samsung integration saying, ‘We’ve studied how people use Spotify. We know that listeners stream different kinds of […]

Verizon offers Apple Music free for 6 months in US

11/08/2018

Verizon offers Apple Music free for 6 months in US starting on the 16th August for Verizon Unlimited customers. The offer is available to new and current Verizon Unlimited customers and customers will have full access to Apple Music and can either stream their favorite songs over 4G or WiFi, or download for offline playback – all ad-free. Apple Music now has more than 45 million songs which can be accessed via iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, […]

Huawei launches Arabic music streaming service in Middle East

09/08/2018

Huawei launches Arabic music streaming service in Middle East and partners with Rotana Records, Qanawat and Mazzika to provide access to a wide range of local and international music. The ad-free service has been launched in five countries – UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq and Jordan. More countries from the region are expected to be added to that list. Huawei Music Service is pre-installed in all Huawei devices with operating system versions EMUI 5.0, 5.1, […]

Sonos goes public on Nasdaq

05/08/2018

Sonos listed on the Nasdaq (Thursday 2nd August) raising $208 million making it the 2nd-largest consumer discretionary IPO of 2018, the share prospectus initially valuing the company at $1.8 billion. The shares were offered at $15 and after an initial surge followed by profit taking the share price is fluctuating around $20 per share giving the company a market capitalisation (5th August 2018) of just under $1 bn. Sonos files to go public Despite […]

DEEZER raises €160m from private investors

05/08/2018

DEEZER raises €160m from private investors and enters into an exclusive distribution agreement with Rotana to digitally distribute Rotana’s music and video content in the Middle East and North Africa region. Kingdom Holding Company and Rotana, led by Chairman HRH Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal together with Access Industries, Orange and LBO France have invested a total of €160 million in a private share placement which values DEEZER at €1 billion. The new funding will be […]