March 2010
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Spotify: Strike that - we're launching "later this...
“Financial news site Bloomberg has published a story claiming that Spotify “aims to start U.S. operations in the third quarter.” It’s based on an interview with the company’s Paul Brown, but nowhere in the piece is he actually quoted as nailing down a specific quarter for the US launch. So we asked Spotify’s communications boss Jim Butcher, and he confirmed that the company hasn’t set itself...
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Spotify: We're launching by Q3 2010!
“Spotify, a virtual digital jukebox and Europe’s largest legal online music site, aims to start U.S. operations in the third quarter. The Stockholm-based company, which has 7 million users in Europe, is in talks with unidentified U.S. Internet and mobile-phone service providers about partnerships, Senior Vice President Paul Brown said in an interview yesterday.”
Bloomberg News: ”Spotify...
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WIRED asks "When, Spotify....?"
“First, we heard that Spotify was going to launch here by the end of last year, then we heard this spring, and from what Brown told Bloomberg, the new prospective launch date is the third quarter of this year.”
WIRED: ”Inch-by-Inch: Spotify Now Buying Server Space in United States,” 3.26.10
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Spotify's U.S. debut: imminent isn't so imminent
“Only a few months ago, its launch in the U.S. was imminent, Ek believed, but on Tuesday he made no such promises or predictions. ‘We have to get our ducks in a row with partnerships and publishing,’ he said. Deals still needed to be struck with 5,000 publishers and collecting societies, because he wants his service to be completely above board. He didn’t elaborate on the...
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Spotify CEO: we're coming soon-- I still can't say...
“Everybody piled into the ballroom today at the Austin Convention Center to hear Spotify CEO Daniel Ek give the final keynote interview of SXSWI of 2010 fully expecting to be blown away with the release of the peer-to-peer music player. Instead, we got somewhat evasive and elusive answers on when to expect a U.S. version….”
ReadWriteWeb: “Spotify Founder Leaves Us...
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Spotify CEO: It doesn't matter to us if we're late...
“We’ve always said we wanted to launch in early 2010. We still hope that will be the case,” [Spotify CEO Daniel] Ek said in an interview with the Times following his keynote. “That said, I don’t think it matters for us if it’s two or three months later. The U.S. is the world’s biggest market. And to use an American phrase, we really want to hit it out of...
