Spotify News

The Telegraph reports that Apple's senior vice president of Industrial Design, who was Knighted at Buckingham Palace last week, is top of the annual Wired 100 , a list that names the key figures in the UK's technology industry.

Website: http://open.spotify.com/app/nztop40 The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand has announced the launch of its dedicated Official NZ Top 40 Music Charts App, designed specifically for the newly-launched music streaming service - Spotify.

Welcome to Australia? On day one of Spotify's launch in Australia & New Zealand, Triple J radio reporter Sophie McNeill grilled Spotify managing director Kate Vale on a number of transparency problems.

After doubling its money last week from a 2010 bet on Facebook , Goldman Sachs is investing much more time and money into Web startups.

Facebook's initial public offering is poised to create some 850 new millionaires, spawning a new class of angel investors looking to help other startups build on the popularity of the biggest social network.

The popular Swedish music streaming service that took the United States by storm will be heading to the Land Down Under with 16 million tracks for free.

RIANZ partners with Spotify to stream weekly music charts   The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand has today announced the launch of its dedicated Official NZ Top 40 Music Charts App, designed specifically for the newly-launched music streaming service – Spotify.

Spotify launched its streaming service in Australia and New Zealand today, bringing the total number of countries served to 15.

Facebook's Open Graph is too tempting for app developers. All they need is the slightest bit of permission from the user, and then they can go nuts posting all kinds of app activity for all that person's friends to see.

Spotify is raking in the money. The six-year-old streaming music startup has only been live in the U.S. for about a year, but it has apparently won the confidence of investors, who are said to be ploughing hundreds of millions of dollars into the company.

Today: Facebook completed its record-breaking IPO, pricing shares at $38 in a deal that should eventually bring in more than $18 billion.

Spotify, the social music service, is in the process of raising hundreds of millions of dollars in a deal that would value the company at as much as $4 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the talks were private.

The 18-year-old idol remains a Hollywood force, having earned $108 million over the past two years.

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The apps, fellody and Tastebuds, both work similarly: After you sign in with Facebook or with a unique username, the applications scan through your music library to find your favorite artists and songs; you are then presented with profiles of other Spotify users with similar tastes in music.

As rumored for weeks, The Orchard has bought indie digital music distributor IRIS.

For all you hear about the primacy of visual culture, you might not expect a Web service exclusively focused on sound to be a big hit.

Streamed music from services like Spotify and Rdio is to get its own weekly chart from The Official Charts Company starting next Monday, 14 May.