| Date | Title | Description |
| 25.03.2020 | Startups Failure Tracker: Coronavirus Adds To Strain As Venture Capital Slows | Coronavirus has led to further tightening of venture capital for startups. © 2020 Bloomberg Finance LP |
| 18.01.2019 | Whyd now helps companies create their custom voice assistant | Y Combinator-backed startup Whyd is pivoting from hardware to software. The startup had been working on a connected speaker with a voice-control interface specifically designed for music. But a couple of years later, it’s clear that subsidi... |
| 15.06.2016 | Radio Service Platform 8tracks Officially Opens SeedInvest Initiative to the Public | 8tracks, the crowd-curated (read not Pandora) internet radio service, announced on Tuesday its SeedInvest campaign is officially open to the public. The platform is looking to sell up to $11 million Series A preferred stock to investors.
Th... |
| 23.03.2016 | This Music Startup Is Taking a Page From Bernie Sanders’ Playbook | 8tracks CEO David Porter. (Photo: 8tracks)
Your startup has the potential to bring in serious revenue but is getting passed up by VCs because it’s unlikely it will sell for billions. What do you do? You get creative.
Yesterday morning, crow... |
| 22.03.2016 | 8tracks is raising a $30 million crowdfunding round | Music startup 8tracks has always had a strong sense of community. But the startup is taking this one step further by raising $30 million from its own community. Instead of asking money from venture capitalists, the company has started an eq... |
| 10.02.2016 | 8tracks, Internet Radio Startup, Grabs $25 Million in Investor Interest | Internet radio startup 8tracks has quickly generated over $25 million in indicated interest from investors under Regulation A+ on SeedInvest. According to information provided by the investment crowdfunding platform, more than 29,000 indivi... |
| 15.07.2015 | 8tracks Updates Web Player With Sleek New Design And Better Recommendations | Music startup 8tracks is releasing a new web version of its service in limited beta today. The completely redesigned homepage is all about personalized recommendations to find the perfect playlist in just one click. It couldn’t be easier, a... |
| 11.06.2015 | 8tracks takes $2.5M in debt funding to surface more relevant music playlists | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
8tracks, a San Francisco startup that runs a onli... |
| 11.06.2015 | 8tracks Closes $2.5 Million Debt Line, Signs More Direct Licensing Deals With Music Labels | Music streaming service 8tracks has been profitable since 2012, but wants to move faster. For its new round of funding, the company chose to secure a $2.5 million debt financing from Silicon Valley Bank. As a reminder, 8tracks is a library ... |
| 11.06.2015 | 8tracks Raises $2.5M in Debt Funding | 8tracks, a San Francisco, CA-based platform for music listeners to create their own playlists, raised $2.5m in debt funding.
Silicon Valley Bank provided the financial resources.
The funds will help grow the company’s product and engineerin... |
| 11.06.2015 | 8tracks takes $2.5M in debt funding to surface more relevant music playlists | 8tracks, a San Francisco startup that runs a online radio service that allows people to create and listen to playlists, announced today that it has taken on $2.5 million in debt money from Silicon Valley Bank. It’s not about keeping the lig... |
| 11.06.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| 11.06.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. David Jones raises $340 million to launch “the world’s first Brandtech group”
Former chief of the advertising and public rel... |
| 15.04.2015 | 100B messages and 500M users say push still works — for messages that matter | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Apparently, people care about stuff that matters. To them, at least.
In the largest study of push notifications ever, Urban Airship say... |
| 15.04.2015 | 100B messages and 500M users say push still works — for messages that matter | Apparently, people care about stuff that matters. To them, at least.
In the largest study of push notifications ever, Urban Airship says that average opt-in rates are highest for apps in categories like business, charity, travel/transportat... |
| 09.04.2015 | 8tracks launches library with 6.5M songs after deals with CD Baby, INgrooves, Dim Mak | 8tracks, a San Francisco startup with a free radio service for making and playing playlists, is announcing today a new library full of more than 6.5 million songs from independent artists.
The music is coming from CD Baby, Dim Mak, and Dash... |
| 09.04.2015 | 8tracks launches library with 6.5M songs after deals with CD Baby, INgrooves, Dim Mak | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
8tracks, a San Francisco startup with a free radi... |
| 09.04.2015 | 8tracks Signs Direct Licensing Deals With Music Labels To Improve Playlist Creation | Music streaming service 8tracks just signed a few licensing deals with independent music labels to make playlist creation much easier. As a reminder, 8tracks true advantage lies in its community — the service is all about creating playlists... |
| 01.01.2015 | 19 startups ready to blast off in 2015 | Tech entrepreneurs were busy in 2014, building startups and raising money for products that could make it big in 2015.
While no one can predict the future, there are a handful of startups we are especially excited to watch in the coming yea... |
| 01.01.2015 | 19 startups ready to blast off in 2015 | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Tech entrepreneurs were busy in 2014, building st... |
| 06.11.2014 | 8tracks updates its website with better playlist curation & tools for DJs | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Streaming music startup 8tracks is launching a ne... |
| 06.11.2014 | 8tracks updates its website with better playlist curation & tools for DJs | Streaming music startup 8tracks is launching a new version of its website today that’s focused on improving the discovery and creation of great playlists.
Unlike other services, 8tracks only lets you listen to music via user-created playlis... |
| 28.08.2014 | Hot playlist-focused music service 8tracks raises $1.28M | Streaming music service 8tracks has secured $1.28 million in new funding, according to an SEC Form D filed today.
8tracks’ service plays handpicked playlists featuring mainstream artists as well as any track from Soundcloud, which has a mor... |
| 28.08.2014 | Funding Daily: Waste bin sensors are a thing? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Today’s funding deals: SeatGeek nabs $35M
SeatGee... |
| 28.08.2014 | Hot playlist-focused music service 8tracks raises $1.28M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Streaming music service 8tracks has secured $1.28... |
| 08.07.2014 | Songza has a music curation-scaling problem — and now Google does, too | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The Songza team will do great things for Google —... |
| 03.07.2014 | Photo Sharing + Playlists = Selocial | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
David Baird was working in London as a musician and producer—he’s had his songs featured on the Showtime series “House of Lies” as well as the Wayans Brothers movie “White Chi... |
| 08.05.2014 | 8tracks Launches New iPhone App To Take On Pandora | Music startup 8tracks just released a major new version of its iPhone app. The 3.0 version comes with a completely redesigned interface, a simpler user experience and a new advertising strategy. At its core, it remains a laid-back radio ser... |
| 27.02.2014 | 8tracks Reaches 8 Million Monthly Active Users, Launches Xbox 360 App | Music startup 8tracks just released a new app for the Xbox 360. Live Gold subscribers will be able to play 8tracks playlists for free on their consoles. In other news, the service just reached 8 million monthly active users, representing 30... |
| 27.02.2014 | 8tracks is an awesome (and profitable) music startup you’ve probably never heard of | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Many music startups are trying to solve two basic... |
| 27.02.2014 | 8tracks is an awesome (and profitable) music startup you’ve probably never heard of | Many music startups are trying to solve two basic problems: creating innovative ways to discover and share music and figuring out a successful business model while solving the first problem. 8tracks is one of the rare few that may have mast... |
| 18.04.2013 | Twitter #Music Depends Upon, But Also Pales In Comparison To, Other Music Discovery Services | Twitter #Music got its big public debut today, and at first blush the service is visually impressive, and well-designed with smart, opportunistic integrations. Those integrations, with Rdio and Spotify, completely change how the app works f... |
| 11.04.2013 | Aaron & Kaitlin Tait – cofounders of Spark* | Aaron was born in New Zealand, joined the Australian military as a seventeen year old, saw active service in the Persian Gulf then travelled through the America’s, Asia and Europe before running a nightclub in Spain. Partying in this nightc... |
| 03.12.2012 | Meet Turntable’s Piki, The First Music App To Do Social Music Sharing Right | Turntable today introduced Piki, a Pandora-like, human-powered radio app combined with powerful Twitter-inspired social features. With Piki, the most impressive part is that Turntable is one of the first music startups to get social right. ... |
| 26.10.2012 | 8tracks’ new iOS music app will make your ears happy | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Sorry hipsters, the headline above isn’t signalin... |
| 26.10.2012 | Streaming Radio Service 8tracks Relaunches On iPhone: App Rebuilt From Ground-Up With New Look, Better Music Discovery | Streaming music startup 8tracks is officially relaunching its iPhone application today, which offers a much-needed (and really well done) user interface revamp. For those who remember the earlier version of the app out last year, it will be... |
| 08.11.2011 | 8tracks Brings Its Handcrafted Mixtapes To Android | Music fans, listen up! 8tracks (the self-proclaimed “social, curated alternative to Pandora”) is now available on Android .
For the unassociated, 8tracks is a massive collection of handcrafted playlists built, for the most part, by the musi... |
| 22.06.2011 | How Long Until The RIAA Kills The Best Music Service Around? | Over the past month or so, there has been tremendous buzz about a startup called Turntable.fm. It’s been written up in a few places and lots of the usual crew of Silicon Valley folks have been using it. In general, I tend to be skeptical of... |
| 11.06.2011 | The Music Runs Through Our Veins | Editor’s note: Guest author Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Internet, and social networks. Shah is based in Palo Alto and you can follow him on twitter @semilshah
Many years ago, as an avid Knight Rider f... |
| 11.04.2011 | 8tracks Brings Its Mix Tapes (And Curated Music Discovery) To The iPhone | When it comes to finding new music, 8tracks has long been one of the cooler methods. Like the once too-popular Muxtape, 8tracks allows users to upload their own mp3s to make a virtual mix tape (of at least 8 tracks) that can be shared. It’s... |
| 11.04.2011 | Rumors & Acquisitions: Sex, Sweat and Hackathons | Sorry for the late rumor round-up, New York techland! Maybe if you all knew how to use the tips@betabeat.com email, we might be able to get these things up more quickly in the future! Without further ado, some nuggets from Twitter, Bnter, G... |
| 03.04.2011 | Amazon, Music, And A Sunny Forecast For The Cloud | Editor’s note: Guest author David Porter is the CEO and founder of 8tracks, the handcrafted internet radio network.
Last week, Amazon launched its Cloud Drive, with an emphasis on music storage. While there have been a number of “jukebox” s... |
| 02.09.2010 | Imbach Leaves Skyhook for 8tracks | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Kate Imbach, long the vice president of marketing for Skyhook Wireless in Boston and a key leader of the Mobile Monday movement in the United States, is departing Skyhook to t... |
| 29.12.2009 | People First, Machines Second | The brilliance of Google' Page Rank algorithm is that it leverages the actions of real people to determine what pages are the best result for a given search term. The specific action I am thinking about is creating a hyperlink on a web page... |
| 26.09.2009 | Your Guide to Music on the Web, Part II | Last month, I published Part 1 of my Guide To Music On The Web, which covered music recommendation sites, Web radio, independent music sites, playlists, and music visualizations. Today, in Part II we’ll take a tour of music search engines, ... |
| 14.07.2009 | Eighteen Streaming Music Resources | According to The Leading Question’s recent research report, as many as 65% of UK teens are streaming music on a monthly basis. Meanwhile, file-sharing has decreased significantly since the Digital Britain Report consultation to address illi... |
| 16.03.2009 | Zelda/hip hop mashup: The Ocarina of Rhyme | Oh no you did not. That’s right, these utter geniuses have taken tracks from The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time and combined them with hip hop from Dre, Jay-Z, Common, and more. The result: Team Teamwork’s “The Ocarina of Rhyme.” I’m ... |
| 25.01.2009 | Community Powered Playlists | There are a lot of playlist services on the web these days. Muxtape got shut down, but imeem, playlist.com, and 8tracks are all alive and kicking. And I am sure there a bunch of others too. All of these services let one person create a play... |
| 18.12.2008 | Mashup Culture Under Attack: Mixwit Goes The Way Of Muxtape | The digital mixtape is dying on the Web. The RIAA is killing it just like it tries to kill anything that smacks of consumer-driven innovation. Digital mixtapes are nothing more than shared playlists. Sites that make it easy to create and sh... |
| 16.12.2008 | 8tracks | Andrew and I met with David Porter, founder of 8tracks, the "legal muxtape", yesterday. David offered to let me try their new uploader (not yet available) that lets you drag and drop iTunes playlists into 8tracks. It’s killer.
Her... |
| 27.10.2008 | 8tracks: The "Legal Muxtape" That Continues To Thrive | 8tracks, the “legal Muxtape” that allows users to build playlists consisting of eight tracks and share them with friends, has launched a number of new improvements designed to flesh out the site beyond basic music playback. Users will now b... |
| 25.09.2008 | Tied Down By Legal Issues, Muxtape Returns In Name Only | Today the story of Muxtape, the popular but shortlived music service that let users create virtual mixtapes, has finally come to light. In a lengthy blog post on the site’s homepage, founder Justin Ouellette details his legal wranglings wit... |
| 04.09.2008 | Tumbltape Mashes Up Muxtape and Tumblr | The demise of Muxtape, the popular mixtape service, clearly left a void on the Internet that a number of new companies are now trying to fill. Most clones, from 8tracks to the self-hosted OpenTape, have followed the Muxtape model very close... |
| 26.08.2008 | Opentape: Host Your Own Muxtape Clone | We were big fans of Muxtape here at ReadWriteWeb, but when the the virtual mixtape service shut its doors last week because of legal issues with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), it definitely left us wanting for more. L... |
| 21.08.2008 | Screen Casts Rock – Here’s Who’s Rocking Them Now | Screen cast videos are one of the most powerful ways to show off anything on the web. They are also quite difficult to do well. That sounds like a pretty sweet spot for specialization and sure enough, a new class of freelancers is emerging ... |
| 17.08.2008 | Constraints and Rules | I believe web services benefit from doing less, not more. I believe that allowing the users to stitch web apps together to get increased functionality is better than a web service trying to do everything for everyone. The Facebook app ecosy... |
