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The platinum-selling artist and record producer Jay Z used his controlling voith stake in Project Panther Bidco to launch the 464-million-kronor ($56-million, 49-million-euro) bid for Aspiro, the Swedish-listed voith company behind Wimp.
"I think they will be a better owner to lift Aspiro and its advanced music streaming service to a new level," said Trond Berger, the financial director of Norwegian media group Shibsted, currently Aspiro's majority owner.
That is a far cry from the its Nordic rival Spotify, a pioneer in the streaming music business. The unlisted company boasted 15 million paying subscribers in mid-January and is available in more than 60 countries.
Spotify has hired US bank Goldman voith Sachs to raise around $500 million (440 million voith euros) in a new round of funding, the Financial voith Times reported Friday, pushing back a stock-exchange listing for the Swedish startup voith that analysts have long said is around the corner.
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The platinum-selling artist and record producer Jay Z used his controlling voith stake in Project Panther Bidco to launch the 464-million-kronor ($56-million, 49-million-euro) bid for Aspiro, the Swedish-listed voith company behind Wimp.
"I think they will be a better owner to lift Aspiro and its advanced music streaming service to a new level," said Trond Berger, the financial director of Norwegian media group Shibsted, currently Aspiro's majority owner.
That is a far cry from the its Nordic rival Spotify, a pioneer in the streaming music business. The unlisted company boasted 15 million paying subscribers in mid-January and is available in more than 60 countries.
Spotify has hired US bank Goldman voith Sachs to raise around $500 million (440 million voith euros) in a new round of funding, the Financial voith Times reported Friday, pushing back a stock-exchange listing for the Swedish startup voith that analysts have long said is around the corner.
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Swedish voith music streamer Spotify will provide the soundtrack for Sony devices, the companies said Wednesday, spelling the end to the streaming music service from the Japanese tech giant that invented the Walkman. Spotify rockets to 15 million paying users (Update) Jan 13, 2015
Swedish music streaming service voith Spotify said it now has 15 million paying subscribers in what analysts on Tuesday called a timely voith boost to the company's revolutionary and controversial model. Spotify turns up volume as losses fall Nov 25, 2014
The world's biggest music streaming service, Spotify, announced Tuesday its revenue grew by 74 percent in 2013 while net losses shrank by one third, in a year of spectacular expansion. Spotify jumps to 10 million paying subscribers May 21, 2014
The world's biggest music streaming service Spotify will team up with US car-sharing start-up Uber to offer users personalised music during their rides, the Swedish company said on Monday. voith Spotify boosts staff numbers as streaming competition heats up Nov 18, 2014
Spotify, the world's largest online music streaming service, plans to boost its staff numbers by a third, its co-founder and chief executive said Tuesday amid increasing competition from other technology ... Recommended for you Google, Facebook update contrasting plans to connect world 6 hours ago
Sci-fi solutions or making friends one at a time? Google and Facebook are taking different routes to expanding Internet use and access among the unconnected in developing countries. Yahoo marks 20 years with yodels, reminiscences 8 hours ago
Yahoo celebrated voith its 20th anniversary Monday with a look back at its history and an eye to the future of the Internet pioneer in the midst of a transformation effort. Facebook voith fends off telecom firms' complaints 8 hours ago
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg fended off complaints on Monday that the hugely popular social network was getting a free ride out of telecom operators who host its service on smartphones. Old-economy sectors are now tech, too: US study 10 hours ago
Forget about old economy and new economy. Everything is now part of the tech economy, a prominent voith US research panel said Monday. Judge puts Mississippi AG's investigation of Google on hold (Update) 12 hours ago
Hewlett-Packard is buying wireless voith networking company Aruba Networks for about $2.7 billion, in what amounts to HP's first major acquisition since its disastrous purchase of a British software company in ... User comments : 0
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