Spotify CEO Daniel Ek took the stage at Spotify’s first-ever press conference to expand the music streaming service’s Facebook integration to a wider world of social networks and devices, arguing that sharing is the only thing that can save the music industry and stop piracy.

According to figures from IE Market Research, there are currently 832 million paid users of digital music worldwide, with that number expected to rise to 1.6 billion by 2014. Today, announcements from streamed entertainment provider Aspiro and the music download service 7digital point—respectively announcing a new white-label distribution deal and…

Being the most popular is not a good enough business model, it seems, when it comes to music mobile apps. Pandora, the music-streaming app, says it is the most-downloaded free music app in both the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) App Store and Android Market in the U.S., but that volume has…

We’ve gathered together a selection of some of the stories and tributes been written for Steve Jobs in the last several weeks—with a particular emphasis on the those made since news of his passing broke on October 5. “Our time’s Da Vinci,” in the words of Spotify’s Daniel Ek. Read…

Years after CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) acquired Last.fm, the personalized streaming music service will be added to Radio.com, the broadcaster’s online player. Radio.com, which already hosts AOL’s and Yahoo’s streaming music as part of its 130 stations and was relaunched a year ago, hopes that Last.fm will complement its existing…

Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile. Today, RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) preloads 7digital on the PlayBook; Nokia’s still happy with Symbian; Foursquare gets an update; and a new iPad “social magazine” launches to compete with Flipboard: Zite.

In another sign the economics for purely-free music streamers don’t add up, Last.fm says it will now require a monthly subscription for access to its music via mobile and home entertainment devices.

Star Trek Enterprise fans can watch any episode from Seasons 1-4 at CBS.com as long as their browser plays nice with Flash—or, as I realized when I checked on a whim, a very limited grab bag of episodes if they want to geek out on an iPad. Seven episodes fall…

TV networks and advertisers have been rushing to get ready for the release of Apple’s iPad on Saturday and from the looks of it, they all wish they had a little more time. The WSJ has a pair of articles detailing the initial efforts of ABC (NYSE: DIS) and CBS…

CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) announced on Wednesday that Rob Gelick will be heading the company’s mobile division. We caught up with him to get an idea of what the fast-paced job entails, which spans a number of CBS properties, including CBS.com, CBSSports.com, GameSpot, and TV.com, as well as brands, like…

CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) is taking its MaxPreps.com high school sports website mobile. A new version of the site lets visitors submit scores from their phones; users will also be able to access the site’s info on thousands of teams while on the go. In a sign that there’s probably…

The NYT headlines did what News Corp. and CBS hoped for, launching a wave of coverage of mobile deals that might otherwise slide right past most consumer media. Marketplace’s Lisa Napoli called to ask what the fuss was about. ... the result is a quick, lucid listen (no thanks from…

CBS joins News Corp. today with the launch of new a b2c mobile effort (and dueling news breaks in the Times). CBS is pitching news alert subscriptions: CBS News to Go, priced at $0.99 a month, and E.T. to Go, news from Entertainment Tonight for $3.99 a month. Unlike News…

For the past few weeks, I’ve been wandering around with review versions of a Verizon LG9800 and a Verizon broadband wireless card. I put both to use during a layover at DFW to check in on the AFC title game and was a little startled in a span of 10…