Ingrid Lunden
May 4, 2011 8:42 AM
As big guns like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) reportedly gear up to launch their own music streaming services, the smaller startups are also ramping up their efforts to become more useful, and discoverable: today Spotify announced a downloads service a la iTunes, but it’s not the only…
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Ingrid Lunden
Mar 10, 2011 8:05 AM
Big news today from Rovio, the Finland-based developers behind the hugely successful Angry Birds mobile game: the company has picked up $42 million in funding, a first round round led by no less than Accel Partners and Atomico Ventures, the VC firm founded and led by Skype/Kazaa/Joost founders Niklas Zennstrom…
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Ingrid Lunden
Feb 3, 2011 7:51 AM
Last week we wrote about how social music service Rdio was picking up a round of funding from Mangrove Capital Partners. Today the company officially announced the news. It’s a $17.5 million investment in a round being led by Mangrove. Rdio has also added a music industry heavyweight to its…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 28, 2011 9:29 AM
The mobile music space has just picked up a bit more capital: Rdio, music discovery and sharing startup, has raised financing from Mangrove Capital Partners. Rdio was founded by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, pictured, who had also created Skype and Joost and file sharing site Kazaa.
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Joseph Tartakoff
Mar 21, 2010 11:05 PM
Skype co-founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis have raised $165 million for their second venture fund which will mainly back European high growth tech startups. Zennström and Friis—who also started Kazaa and Joost—had initially aimed to raise $266 million for the fund a year ago but downplay the shortfall telling…
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