Spotify and Pandora (NYSE: P) may be the music brands people think of today when it comes to streaming services. But with only five million consumers using services like these today, there is clearly an opportunity for another player to emerge to try to pick up more. Enter a new…

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.

Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) and Orange have long been rivals in mobile phone markets in Europe, but as growth slows down in the region, the two are, at least in part, taking somewhat different paths in their search for fresh revenues: Vodafone is increasingly looking at its investments in emerging markets,…

Bloomberg may still be battling with Comcast over better placement on its cable systems, but the financial news and information company is looking to claim to another screen for its live television broadcasts: the iPad. The company launched its latest free, ad-supported app in the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iTunes Store…

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…

Just a few weeks after landing in the U.S., European-based streaming music service Spotify has gotten an immediate shot in the arm by being selected as one of Facebook’s partners in its new “Open Graph” design. The service, which comes with free, ad-supported and paid options, will now have the…

Internet radio provider Pandora is primarily known for its mobile apps, but as it looks to build up its ad offerings, it’s overhauled its website in the more versatile HTML5 mode to make it more attractive to listeners and display advertisers. But the big question is whether it can turn…

The UK is preparing to roll out a new, superfast mobile broadband service that would also more than double the amount of spectrum that is currently available for mobile broadband. Regulator Ofcom today announced plans to go ahead with “white spaces” broadband services, which run on unused spectrum originally allocated…

Pandora (NYSE: P), which has seen its stock price battered since the brief euphoria that surrounded its IPO pricing back in June, posted triple-digit gains in revenues, which was offset by a triple-digit net loss. streaming music company also said that it expects Q3 revenue growth to range between 84…

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…

Research released this week from Nielsen showed that Android is continuing its domination of the smartphone scene in the U.S.—it now makes up 36 percent of all smartphone usage in the country—but when it comes to what people are doing on smartphones, all platforms, it seems, are more or less…

The UK’s Absolute Radio network, which became a Europe launch partner for Apple’s iOS advertising system by creating an ad for its soccer coverage, has shared metrics it says show iAds is a boon for brands..

Personalized radio streamer Pandora has filed for its long-expected IPO and is seeking to raise $100 million from its stock sale, according to an SEC filing. The filing shows a company operating at a loss but with advertising revenues rising dramatically.

The UK radio industry’s Rajar group has released another set of stats it says shows growing consumption of its programming via online platforms. Its research by Ipsos MORI polled only 1,091 respondents - but the findings are being extrapolated massively in to the millions...

Just the other day, Howard Stern was lashing out at a Sirius XM (NSDQ: SIRI) exec in the kind of language you can only get away on satellite radio, pay TV or the internet. Today, he used the same time to put his fans—and Sirius shareholders—out of their misery by…

The UK’s congested wireless networks may soon be getting an extra traffic lane: today, Ofcom took one further step along the route to putting services into the country’s “white spaces”, or parts of unused radio spectrum between television channels. A similar plan is gradually progressing through the U.S. regulatory system…

The other day I saw a mention of a survey respondent complaining that NPR is too wordy. Maybe someone can track her down and offer the URL to NPR.org’s new programming: the All Songs 24/7 Music Channel. The channel is both a tribute to the music discovery show All Songs…

Less than a week before Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is set to launch Windows Phone 7, it gathered a small group of reporters together at CTIA in San Francisco to show off three music applications, revealing that while Microsoft will include its Zune music portal on the platform, it values a…

T-Mobile USA is unveiling a third edition of its myTouch franchise today, which has been enhanced by a team of T-Mobile developers to create a custom experience running on top of the Android operating system. This time around, the phone was not only built with T-Mobile’s family strategy in mind,…