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Mobile at the heart of 7digital’s international expansion

7digital is making a push into several emerging markets, inking licensing deals for its digital music services in India, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and South Africa.
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We7 shutters foreign operations

We7 is no longer available outside the UK and Ireland as the company undergoes “a massive change to our website and streaming provision”.
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Music Ally Report: Breaking Pandora’s box

Our lead examines the future for Pandora: with increasing costs as it grows, and more competition from music services offering rival personal radio as a feature, can Pandora prevail as a service in its own right?
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Tesco acquires We7, hints at the future

The music streaming business found itself with an unlikely new player yesterday when supermarket giant Tesco announced that it had bought We7 for £10.8m.
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we7 launches Free Music Radio iPhone app

UK streaming music service we7 has launched a new iPhone app this morning: we7 Free Music Radio.
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we7 hires VP of marketing

British personal radio service we7 has hired its first marketing boss. Mark McCulloch is the company's new VP of marketing, joining from restaurant chain Yo! Sushi. He'll be overseeing marketing and PR activity across the...
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we7 kicks off European expansion with Belgian launch

UK streaming music service we7 is making its long-planned leap across the English Channel with the launch of its service in Belgium. It goes live today with a catalogue of 7.5 million songs, and licensing deals with local...
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we7 closes new round of funding for Euro expansion

Streaming music service we7 has announced an undisclosed amount of funding to fuel its expansion beyond the UK. The new cash comes from founder-investor Peter Gabriel, as well as Eden Ventures, Qualcomm and Pentech Ventures....
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7digital boss hails ‘incredible’ BlackBerry PlayBook music purchasing

UK music firm 7digital makes the official music store app for Research In Motion's BlackBerry PlayBook, so how's it doing? Very well according to CEO Ben Drury. "We're seeing incredible results from BlackBerry and Playbook...
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…And so do music services

We also talked to a couple of UK music startups about their response to the Hargreaves review. Nikhil Shah of MixCloud had strong views...
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7digital relaunches its Android app

It's a big day for would-be iTunes killers. Spotify has launched its desktop-based download store, but its former partner 7digital has its own announcement. 7digital's Android app has been relaunched...
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Not such a long tail for we7 users

we7 boss Steve Purdham has been talking to Hypebot about listening patterns on its streaming music service. “We have 6.5 million songs in the music catalogue. Last week and consistent with all previous weeks, 52% of...