May 8th, 2013 by Music Ally

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Pandora has revealed that its listener hours fell 12% to 1.31bn in April as a direct result of the 40-hours-a-month cap introduced for non-paying users of Pandora's mobile app in March.

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May 8th, 2013 by Music Ally

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If digital music service Soundrop is like a big house with rooms devoted to different artists and genres, well, it just got a mighty-big extension.

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May 7th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge

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It's been a busy couple of years for Spotify, but not for acquisitions: the streaming music service has been distinctly quiet on the M&A front. On Friday, though, the company confirmed its acquisition...

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April 25th, 2013 by Music Ally

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Social music startup Soundrop wants to help Spotify users discover more new music through a series of new 'Best of' playlists.

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April 23rd, 2013 by Music Ally

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In the latest Music Ally podcast, Eamonn Forde calls Stuart Dredge on Skype even though he's in the next room. Hopefully this will mean they no longer sound like they are trapped inside an echo chamber...

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April 23rd, 2013 by Music Ally

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Rhapsody's VP of product and content Jon Maples has published a blog post on Sidewinder.fm discussing two of his company's key rivals: Spotify and Rdio.

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April 19th, 2013 by Music Ally

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After a week of speculation, Twitter finally launched its new music discovery app yesterday for iPhone and as a website.

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April 17th, 2013 by Music Ally

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We reported on the beta launch of iPhone social music app Clerkd last year (Bulletin, 17-Dec-12), but now it's launching officially. It's good timing too.

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April 15th, 2013 by Music Ally

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Pournouri announced plans to launch a new label called PRMD Records.

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