SoundCloud Has a New Pile of Cash, and Wants to Cut Deals With Big Music
The "YouTube for Music" doesn't have licensing agreements with the big labels. Now it wants to change that -- and it has the cash to make it happen.
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View ArticleTwitter Is Considering a Deal to Buy SoundCloud
Would it solve Twitter's growth problem?
View ArticleTwitter Walks Away From SoundCloud Deal
It looks like Twitter won’t be buying SoundCloud, after all: The messaging service let an exclusive negotiating period with the music-sharing service expire this morning, and is no longer in...
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View ArticleTwitter COO Rowghani Resigns From Job on Twitter
Ali Rowghani will have strategic adviser role. Translation: He's gone.
View ArticleSoundCloud, Which Wants Big Music Deals, Hires Big Music Executive
If you want to join them, hire them.
View ArticleTwitter Partners With SoundCloud, iTunes for Audio Distribution
Tracks in your timeline.
View ArticleStreaming Music Is Fundamentally Changing the Way We Listen
The recent debate on streaming has been focused on short-term concerns -- issues of access, mobile convenience and remuneration.
View ArticleEven With a Universal Deal, Does SoundCloud Have a Future?
How many of its 175 million users will actually convert when the service starts charging?
View ArticleCan Web Music Survive?
Here we are in 2016 with more news about the struggles of online music businesses than success stories to share.
View ArticleSoundCloud Hires a Chief Revenue Officer as It Preps Its Subscription Service
NBCU and HBO vet Alison Moore comes on board.
View ArticleSoundCloud’s Music Subscription Service Is Finally Here
Like Spotify, Apple and many others, it's $10 a month. The free version is sticking around, but some songs may move behind a pay wall.
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