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| 25.11.2025 | Warner Music Drops Lawsuit vs. Suno; AI Music Company Gets Licensing Deal Instead | By Isaiah Richard
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| 11.11.2025 | AI Security Institute chair moves investment firm away from UK | The chair of the AI Security Institute has moved an investment firm he co-founded away from the UK, City AM can reveal, as concerns grow over an exodus of tech investors from Britain.
Serial entrepreneur Ian Hogarth, who set up Plural with ... |
| 21.03.2024 | The Reddits | I met the Reddits before we even started Y Combinator. In fact they were one of the reasons we started it.
YC grew out of a talk I gave to the Harvard Computer Society (the undergrad computer club) about how to start a startup. Everyone els... |
| 02.05.2023 | The Triangle's best May shows include Lizzo, Feist and Stevie Nicks | 🧙 May 2: Hyperpop weirdos 100 gecs play the Ritz.
🇫🇷 May 3-14: Moulin Rouge! The Musical comes to DPAC.
🎸 May 6: Mdou Moctar, the Nigerien guitar virtuoso, plays the Cat's Cradle.
🎹 May 10: Feist will play at The Ritz as part of her tour ... |
| 11.06.2021 | The Return of LA Concerts, Sports and Performances | Beginning Tuesday, vaccinated people can go maskless at concerts, sports events and indoor performance venues. L.A. County health officials made the announcement Thursday, opening the door for a return to a pre-pandemic summer.
More than ha... |
| 28.05.2021 | With In-Person Concerts Back, What Will Happen to Livestream Audiences? | In-person concerts are coming back.
In California, venues have received the provisional go-ahead to open at full capacity by June 15 so long as statewide COVID numbers continue their downward trend.
But 15 months after venues shuttered, the... |
| 18.11.2020 | WHERE ARE THEY NOW: One-hit wonders from the past 60 years | Cheryl Lynn released ‘Got to Be Real’ in the 1970s. GAB Archive/Getty Images
One-hit wonders have produced some of the most popular music of the last 60 years.
A-ha had one of the greatest pop songs and music videos of all time with “Take O... |
| 19.11.2019 | Top 10 Employee Wellbeing Companies and Programs | 2 shares
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| 11.04.2019 | 10 successful female-led tech startups from London which got the maximum funding so far | Women entrepreneurs are increasing in number unlike ever before. They have busted stereotypes and are striving to bring about progressive changes in the business ecosystem. The quench for success has made them cross all roadblocks and lead ... |
| 15.02.2019 | Ja Rule Is Planning a New Music Festival That Is Definitely Not a Scam | When Ja Rule witnessed the chaos that ensued at the now-infamous Fyre Festival, the rapper—a co-founder of the fest—assured via Twitter that the fiasco wasn't his fault. But now that both Netflix and Hulu’s competing documentaries (full dis... |
| 23.12.2017 | Garth Brooks' World Tour Solidifies His Status As The Best Arena Act Alive | Garth Brooks performs during South by Southwest at Auditorium Shores, Austin, Texas, March 18, 2017. Bryan Rolli |
| 17.07.2017 | Term Sheet — Monday, July 17 | COOL GIRLS
Good morning from Aspen, where I’m co-chairing Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference!
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Other highlights from today’s agenda include Davis Wang, CEO of Chinese bike shar... |
| 16.02.2017 | Startups: read this before you hire your first employee | This article was originally posted on the Tech North website.
Pete Smith is co-founder of Songkick and Silicon Milkroundabout. He will be giving at talk about sourcing, hiring and leadership at Tech North’s Founders’ Network Summit on 2 Ma... |
| 25.08.2016 | Songkick raises new $15M round from Access Industries, expands US operations | Songkick, which allows you to track the gigs of your favorite music artists and buy tickets to concerts, has raised a further $15 million in funding from Access Industries.
Songkick says it now plans to use the money to “enhance the connect... |
| 25.08.2016 | Songkick Raises $15 Million from Access Industries | Songkick, the world's leading artist-ticketing and concert discovery platform, announces the close of a $15 million additional round of funding by Access Industries. In addition, Songkick is announcing the expansion of its West Coast office... |
| 25.08.2016 | Songkick raises $15M to help artists sell more concert tickets and thwart scalpers | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Songkick, the company behind the music-monitoring app that lets you track when and where all your favorite bands and artists are playin... |
| 25.08.2016 | Songkick raises $15M to help artists sell more concert tickets and thwart scalpers | Songkick, the company behind the music-monitoring app that lets you track when and where all your favorite bands and artists are playing live, has raised another $15 million in funding from Access Industries.
This latest funding comes eight... |
| 25.08.2016 | Songkick Raises $15M in Funding | Songkick, a NYC-based artist-ticketing and concert discovery platform, closed a $15m additional funding round.
Access Industries made the investment.
Merged with CrowdSurge in 2015 and led by CEO Matt Jones, Songkick provides an independent... |
| 21.12.2015 | Songkick — сервис, который помогает артистам избежать продажи билетов на концерты спекулянтам Статьи редакции | Сегодня в «Идеях для бизнеса» — сервис Songkick, который помогает артистам продавать билеты на свои представления, не опасаясь спекулянтов.
Songkick — система продажи билетов на концерты, которая с помощью собственных алгоритмов выявляет и ... |
| 18.12.2015 | Extroverts Rejoice! Now Facebook Finds You Parties | Facebook should tell me what to do tonight. It already knows what I like, where I live, and who I hang out with.
Now it will. After accidentally becoming the most powerful force in party invitations, Facebook is jacking us into its omniscie... |
| 18.12.2015 | Songkick Raises $10M | Songkick, a London, UK-based artist ticketing platform and concert discovery service, raised $10m in funding.
Access Industries made the investment.
The company intends to use the funds to continue to increase growth efforts.
Led by CEO Ian... |
| 17.12.2015 | Songkick Raises Another $10M From WMG Owner Access Industries | Songkick, the concert discovery app and ticketing company (after it merged with white-label artist-to-fan ticket seller CrowdSurge), has raised a further $10 million in funding from previous backer Access Industries, owner of WMG. It follow... |
| 17.12.2015 | Songkick raises $10 million to help thwart scalpers and sell concert tickets direct to fans | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Songkick, the company behind the eponymous cross-platform app that lets you track when and where all your favorite bands are playing li... |
| 17.12.2015 | 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... |
| 17.12.2015 | Daily funding roundup - December 17, 2015 | Tastemade raised $40M; Rivigo secured $30M; Songkick raised $10M funding
Funnely, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a platform for e-commerce marketers to increase ROI by automating Facebook/Instagram ads, raised $988,000 in seed fundin... |
| 17.12.2015 | Songkick raises $10 million to help thwart scalpers and sell concert tickets direct to fans | Songkick, the company behind the eponymous cross-platform app that lets you track when and where all your favorite bands are playing live, has raised an additional $10 million in funding from Access Industries.
Founded in 2007, Songkick had... |
| 17.12.2015 | 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. Songkick raises $10 million
Songkick, the company behind the eponymous cross-platform app that lets you track when and where... |
| 12.11.2015 | Spotify now recommends live concerts based on your listening history | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Spotify’s flexing its algorithmic muscles today with the news that it’s launching a new music-recommendation tool … for live concerts.
... |
| 07.10.2015 | Tech City UK Builds Out Digital Business Academy as Over 18,000 People Enrol in 10 Months | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
Our dedicated skills programme, Digital Business Academy, launches three new courses for anyone in the UK who want to start, run, or join a digital business. The addition of t... |
| 04.10.2015 | Full Stack Music: 1 Trillion Streams, 200 Million Tickets | Ian Hogarth Contributor
Ian Hogarth is the co-CEO and co-founder of Songkick.
At present, there are three distinct music industries: radio, on-demand music, and concert ticketing. However, we are starting to enter a new phase, where these i... |
| 16.09.2015 | Explore Awesome Events Handpicked By Local Extroverts In DoStuff’s New App | Algorithms can’t tell you what to do tonight. You need a local who knows the scene, hears about all the events, and can tell you what’ll actually be fun. That’s why DoStuff hired over a hundred cool kids in cities across the country to powe... |
| 02.09.2015 | How Songkick is changing the music industry | Songkick wants you to never again miss a concert you wanted to see.
“Most people have busy lives,” Songkick co-CEO Ian Hogarth said in his Dumbo office this week. “I’ve always thought Songkick’s ideal user is a busy young doctor. You don’t ... |
| 21.07.2015 | Songkick and Spotify make it easier to discover when your favorite bands are playing nearby | 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!
Songkick, the cross-platform app that lets you ke... |
| 21.07.2015 | Songkick and Spotify make it easier to discover when your favorite bands are playing nearby | Songkick, the cross-platform app that lets you keep tabs on when and where all your favorite bands are playing live, now lets you track artists in your Spotify account through the Songkick website.
For the uninitiated, London-based Songkick... |
| 09.07.2015 | Codebase: Building Startup Ecosystems Through the Turing Festival | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
Ahead of the Turing Festival in August, Jamie Coleman – Founding Director of the Festival and Managing Director of Codebase – shares his thoughts on its origins.
In late 2010... |
| 04.06.2015 | Songkick And CrowdSurge Merge, Raise $16M To Combine Concert Discovery And Ticketing | Half of concert tickets go unsold because fans don’t know the shows are happening. To fix that, 10 million user concert discovery app Songkick is merging with white-label artist-to-fan ticket seller CrowdSurge. Under the name Songkick they’... |
| 29.05.2015 | 20,000 New Jobs to be Created by UK Tech Investment in 2015 | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
Research from Future Fifty company and job search engine Adzuna demonstrates the impact on job creation of VC investment into UK tech companies
The research has shown that st... |
| 13.05.2015 | No, RIAA, It's Not The End Of The World For Musicians | Oh no! The sky is falling! Piracy is decimating musicians! |
| 08.05.2015 | Songkick for iPhone lets you import Rdio playlists to tell you when your favorite bands play nearby | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Songkick now lets you import your playlists directly from music-streaming service Rdio, telling you which of your favorite artists are ... |
| 06.05.2015 | 19 bands with Brooklyn technologists in them | Before technology made starting a business so much less expensive, one of the only ways a few young peers could get together and make something that they might, maybe, possibly, make some money on one day was starting a band. Art, meaning a... |
| 17.03.2015 | Rdio taps Songkick to display live tour date information for artists | Music-streaming service Rdio made a handful of announcements at the SXSW festival today, including Songkick integration that will surface live concert information on artists directly within the Rdio app.
London-based Songkick has made a big... |
| 17.03.2015 | Rdio taps Songkick to display live tour date information for artists | 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!
Music-streaming service Rdio made a handful of an... |
| 08.02.2015 | Female Founder Stories: Michelle You, Founder of Songkick (YC S07) | Songkick makes it easy to go to concerts. We have a website and apps that track your music taste (from the music on your device, Spotify playlists, Facebook listening history, etc.) and notify you when your favorite artists announce tour da... |
| 05.11.2014 | Concert Discovery Superstar Songkick Starts Selling Tickets | “The average American goes to one concert per year. If you double that, it has a profound impact on the lives of artists,” Songkick founder Ian Hogarth tells me. The problem is “It’s easier to buy a taxi to the concert than a ticket.” That’... |
| 19.10.2014 | Inside The Spotify – Echo Nest Skunkworks | They call it Truffle Pig, and it’s ProTools for playlists. Punch in parameters like “danceability”, date ranges, or emotions and Truffle Pig spits out a set of top jams that would fit your “Lovesick 90s Party Starters” playlist.
Truffle Pig... |
| 20.06.2014 | Last day to apply to Startup School Europe | Today is the last day to apply for Startup School Europe, which will be hosted in London on July 26.
Apply here.
Speakers include:
Paul Buchheit
Partner, Y Combinator; Founder, FriendFeed; Creator of Gmail
Adora Cheung
Founder, Homejoy
... |
| 10.06.2014 | Seatwave Buys Timbre To Expand Into Live Music Discovery, Primary Ticket Sales | The UK’s Seatwave, a platform for secondary ticket purchases — where people or venues can post live event tickets for resale — is today announcing an acquisition that will take the company further into the primary ticket market and music di... |
| 05.06.2014 | Startup School Europe Speakers | The deadline to apply for Startup School Europe is coming up on June 20. Apply here.
Speakers include:
Paul Buchheit
Partner, Y Combinator; Founder, FriendFeed; Creator of Gmail
Adora Cheung
Founder, Homejoy
Patrick Collison
Founder,... |
| 27.05.2014 | Songkick (YC S07) Reaches 10M Monthly Fans and 100M Revenue | Congrats Songkick!
Songkick is now hooking up over 10 million unique fans every month with their favourite artist – whether it’s at a wild west watering hole in Joshua Tree, a moored boat in Bristol, or a 2000 year old Roman amphitheatre.
... |
| 27.05.2014 | Songkick Passes 10M Monthly ‘Fans’ And $100M Revenue | Former YC startup Songkick, which makes tickets for music gigs social, claims it is now bringing in 10 million “unique fans” every month. Unfortunately that term is rather vague – when asked what this meant, co-founder Ian Hogarth said it w... |
| 12.04.2014 | Eating on Tour Can Blow, But Thank God for the Food in Copenhagen | Welcome to Get Out of the Van, our new column from Max Goldblatt, the guy that well-known bands hire not only for his t-shirt slinging talents, but for his ability to find the best food in any city. He's brought his skill set to the likes o... |
| 21.11.2013 | Songkick Refreshes iPhone App To Push Ticket Buying, And Thus Up Its Revenues | Songkick – which allows users to follow music artists, their live music events and has links to book tickets – is today launching a new iPhone app geared far more towards actually selling concert tickets than simply listing upcoming concert... |
| 07.09.2013 | The 7 Best Music Apps You’re Not Using | Last week, I wrote about Timbre, a music app that allows users to discover live music from local and popular musicians based on their current location. Well, here are some other cool music apps that you probably don't know about (but should... |
| 07.09.2013 | The 7 Best Music Apps You’re Not Using | Last week, I wrote about Timbre, a music app that allows users to discover live music from local and popular musicians based on their current location. Well, here are some other cool music apps that you probably don't know about (but should... |
| 06.09.2013 | Fun Friday: Fall Planning | Panterosa suggested today's fun friday. She sent me this email:
As the 'season' starts here, I wonder how everybody decides which art shows, theater and concerts to attend. It's such a pain to crawl thru event listing in NYC, let alone US o... |
| 17.04.2013 | Tumblr’s CEO on killing its editorial team, not monetizing like Google & YouTube | Tumblr’s CEO David Karp has been in the spotlight as of late, especially in the blogosphere. A little over a week ago, he published a blog post announcing the killing of Tumblr’s Storyboard, and subsequently, the end of the only 1 year old ... |
| 17.04.2013 | Tumblr’s CEO on killing its editorial team, not monetizing like Google & YouTube | 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!
Tumblr’s CEO David Karp has been in the spotlight... |
| 31.03.2013 | All Things SXSW (Re)Considered | Editor’s note: Marc Ruxin is CEO and co-founder of TastemakerX. Follow him on Twitter @ruxputin.
If you went to SXSW 20 years ago, you would have been there to see and discover new music. You worked at a label or publishing company, or perh... |
| 21.03.2013 | Silicon Milkroundabout Spins Out From Songkick To Staff Startups With Talent By Way Of Events | Silicon Milkroundabout, the London-based networking event started as an informal side-project by two of the founders of the live music alert service Songkick, is growing up. Three years on from its first oversubscribed meet-up in a pub, it ... |
| 29.11.2012 | London’s Onefinestay Nabs Plum District VP Jackson Hull: File It Under ‘Silicon Valley Comes To London For The Realism’ | Last year European startup Songkick got bragging rights for bagging a new CTO by luring Dan Crow away from Google’s London office, now London-based ‘unhotel’ startup, onefinestay, has bagged a West Coast exec as its CTO, convincing him and ... |
| 23.10.2012 | Songkick Lets Fans Build Andrew Bird's South American Tour For Him | Over the last few weeks, we’ve been talking about Songkick’s new “Detour” feature, which artists are using to set up shows in “off the beaten track” places, where they’d be unlikely to tour normally, but via Songkick, they discover there ar... |
| 15.10.2012 | Crowdsourcing A Live Show Lets Fans Spread The Word About How Awesome You Are | We recently wrote about a new feature from Songkick, called Detour, that can be used to crowdsource a concert to guarantee for a performer that it’s worth going to a show there. Songkick now has another example, which is even more interesti... |
| 10.10.2012 | European Cozy Up: Songkick Chosen To Power Deezer’s Concert Recommendations | I always get a warm and fuzzy feeling when two European tech companies cozy up. To that end, TechCrunch has learned that Deezer, the music streaming service which announced ambitious plans for growth today (off the back of a new $130 millio... |
| 04.10.2012 | Songkick Helps Fans Bring Their Favorite Musician To London | When we talk about alternative business models for music, one that always is discussed is live performances. Like it or not, this is a very big (and growing at a rapid rate) part of the market. We’ve never argued that live performance is th... |
| 02.10.2012 | Search for UK’s next top tech entrepreneurs to boost digital economy with 800 jobs on offer at the Silicon Milkroundabout jobs fair | Silicon Milkroundabout, the jobs fair for the London start-up community, will see up to 130 leading UK start-ups look to recruit talented software engineers and designers
London, UK, 2 October 2012: The UK has the potential to become the be... |
| 12.08.2012 | Gold, silver, and bronze: the real winners of the Social Olympics | This year’s Olympics earned the nickname “Socialympics.” It has inspired huge waves of tweets, brought down the reputation of old media giants, and earned athletes millions of new followers in weeks.
Since the Beijing Olympics four years ag... |
| 12.08.2012 | Gold, silver, and bronze: the real winners of the Social Olympics | 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!
This year’s Olympics earned the nickname “Socialy... |
| 12.06.2012 | Songkick Finally Gets Around To An Android App, Claims No.2 Spot Behind Ticketmaster | Music startup Songkick, which tracks your favourite bands and tells you when they are gigging, has gotten plenty of traction on the Web and on iOS. But a missing link in the platform play has been Android. That changes today with the launch... |
| 30.05.2012 | Songkick’s Tourbox Makes It Easier For Musicians To Trumpet Their Concerts Across The Web | I’m not a professional musician, but apparently it’s a headache for artists to publicize their tourdates on the myriad number of websites and apps that cater to music lovers. Not only is there Facebook and Twitter, but there’s YouTube, Spot... |
| 08.03.2012 | Songkick Raises $10M in Series B Funding | Songkick, a London, UK-based startup that helps users to track their favorite bands to see them live, has raised $10m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Sequoia Capital.
Founded in 2007 by Ian Hogarth, Pete Smith, and Michelle You, S... |
| 08.03.2012 | Songkick (YC S07) Secures Sequoia’s First Ever UK Investment With A $10M B Round | Songkick – which allows users to follow music artists, their live music events and book tickets – has raised a $10 million B round of financing from Sequoia Capital. This is Sequoia’s first ever investment in a U.K.-headquartered startup. T... |
| 08.03.2012 | Songkick Secures Sequoia’s First Ever UK Investment With A $10M B Round | Songkick – which allows users to follow music artists, their live music events and book tickets – has raised a $10 million B round of financing from Sequoia Capital. This is Sequoia’s first ever investment in a U.K.-headquartered startup. T... |
| 05.12.2011 | Hands-On With the New Spotify – Apps Make it Way More Useful | This week, darling of the all-you-can-stream music space Spotify announced that it’s opening up to third party developers and creating a platform on which they can build HTML5 apps to run within its desktop client. Once approved by Spotify,... |
| 17.11.2011 | FanBridge’s New Facebook Brand Page Omni-App Combines Functionality From 12 Partners | Facebook Pages can host as many applications as they want, but unfortunately, most visitors never click away from the single default landing tab. To let its brand and band clients offer ecommerce, crowdfunding, music, video, and ticketing a... |
| 10.11.2011 | A year later the Prime Minister returns to East London's 'Tech City' | Well, it’s exactly a year on from the UK Prime Minister’s speech in Shoreditch which fired the starting gun on what the government decided to call “Tech City“, a cluster of tech companies it had recognised were growing organically in East L... |
| 17.10.2011 | YouTube adds “Merch Store” feature to let musicians hawk T-shirts, tickets | YouTube is going to let musicians sell merchandise, tickets and more on the site, the company announced on its blog yesterday.
Giving fans the ability to purchase things via the YouTube platform transforms the site from being just a place t... |
| 17.10.2011 | YouTube adds “Merch Store” feature to let musicians hawk T-shirts, tickets | 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!
YouTube is going to let musicians sell merchandis... |
| 12.10.2011 | Announcing Step2 — Our New Platform For Helping Creators Succeed | Today we’re extremely excited to announce the launch of Step2, our discussion platform for helping creators, fans, techies, business folks and anyone else work together to help creators figure out ways to better succeed with their efforts. ... |
| 26.09.2011 | London Startups Fire A Hiring Gun At The Banks | Back in May, a sort of revolution started in the London tech scene. You see, London is a special place. It has massive industries in the shape of the financial sector and the media industry (like the BBC) right on its doorstep, so any fresh... |
| 18.08.2011 | Finally: Foursquare lets you check in to movies, sports games and concerts | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Location-based social network Foursquare now allows its users to check in at specific events, the company announced today on its blog.
... |
| 18.08.2011 | Foursquare Now Lets You Check In To Official Events, But You Still Can’t Create An Official Event Yourself | Foursquare has announced today that people can now check into events officially, which is weird because people have actually (unofficially) been checking into events for a long time. I mean just look at NYC Mayor Bloomberg’s check in to som... |
| 29.07.2011 | Tastebuds.fm launches its bid for investment [Springboard] | Tastebuds.fm has been making waves recently with an innovative approach to dating which is a lot less run of the mill. Today it launches to investors at the Springboard accelerator programme in Cambridge, with a bid for £500,000 of Seed inv... |
| 08.07.2011 | TechCrunch Giveaway: Tickets to Outside Lands Festival And Summer Party #SongkickApp | The San Francisco Outside Lands Festival is one of the biggest music, food, wine, and art events of the year. Musicians like Phish, Muse, Arcade Fire, MGMT, The Shins, and many more will be performing over the course of three days. You can ... |
| 07.07.2011 | Loic Needs To Get His Head Out Of His Silicon Valley | I have the hugest respect for Loic Le Meur. Years before anyone was organising a major tech conference in Europe (outside of the dull corporate IT ones) Loic was charging ahead with first Les Blogs, which became the juggernaut of Le Web. It... |
| 22.06.2011 | Songkick hits 100,000 downloads of its iPhone app inside two weeks | So, one normally judges high growth in consumer apps by traction early on. Instagram, which is killing it lately, had 100,000 downloads in one week. Soundtracking has the same inside two weeks.
Adding to this roster is Songkick, which is te... |
| 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... |
| 08.06.2011 | Songkick goes mobile with concerts on iPhone | See which of your favorite artists are playing in your area with Songkick Concerts
Songkick, a website to discover upcoming concerts, announced Wednesday the launch of its iPhone app. Songkick Concerts is available for download from the App... |
| 08.06.2011 | Songkick launches iPhone app to connect location to concerts | I have a confession to make. I’m a fan of live bands, but what with one thing or another, I just don’t get to see enough. I signed up to all the obvious sites to get emails about upcoming gigs. I don’t read their emails. I’ve scrobbled and ... |
| 30.05.2011 | Silicon Milkroundabout: How London startups took hiring back into their own hands | This is guest post by Ian Hogarth, co-founder of Songkick, relates how 45 startups in London’s East End got tired of being over-shadowed by the financial sector in London and created their own event to lure wanna-be startupers.
Sunday 15th ... |
| 12.05.2011 | YouTube Launches Music Chart (Feat. Rebecca Black in the Top 10) | Today YouTube launched a new music video chart, called the YouTube 100. It’s a popularity index that measures “song traffic” for official music videos and user-uploaded videos. YouTube 100 has similarities to other online music charts, such... |
| 27.04.2011 | Hey BT, we put a countdown clock on your ineptitude – Let's see you beat it | We recently brought your attention to the scandalous delays BT Openreach is capable of when being asked, in simple terms, to connect a central London building up to a fibre broadband connection. At the same time the UK government – and the ... |
| 21.04.2011 | There will be no Tech City in London if BT is not brought to heel | Sometimes being a TechCrunch editor can actually be vaguely useful. Honest. Because we cover European startups from London, I’ve ended up being invited to join the London Mayor’s Digital Advisory Board as well as attending roundtable sessio... |
| 05.04.2011 | TechCrunch Europe and The Telegraph release the Startup100 | TechCrunch Europe occasionally partners with other media outlets in Europe in order to support the European ecosystem. Last December we agreed to link up with the London Telegraph newspaper, which planned to put some time and resources into... |
| 18.03.2011 | Songkick Poaches A Big Hitter CTO Out Of Google | Live bands site Songkick has achieved something fairly rare for a European startup. Rare enough to be worth a mention, at least. In common with what appears to be a trend of Google people escaping to new startups in the Valley, it’s hired a... |
| 18.03.2011 | Songkick poaches big hitter CTO out of Google | Live bands site Songkick has achieved something fairly rare for a European startup. Rare enough to be worth a mention, at least. In common with what appears to be a trend of Google people escaping to new startups in the Valley, it’s hired a... |
| 15.02.2011 | Songkick raises $2 million to help people track, catalog live music | Songkick is in the process of raising $2 million, an SEC filing reveals. Songkick indexes a host of ticket vendors, venue websites as well as local newspapers to create a database of concerts happening around the world.
This provides people... |
| 15.02.2011 | Songkick raises $1.9 million for live music | Y Combinator graduate, three years and $5 million investments later, still working on concert lists
If you love live music, you’ll love this website.
Songkick, a website for tracking tour dates for your favorite musicians, has raised $1.9 m... |
| 14.02.2011 | SongKick Raises Nearly $2m More for Concert Alerts, Music History & More | There are many different services that let you sign up to get an email alert when your favorite band is coming to town, but UK-born SongKick keeps innovating and keeps finding more support for its efforts. A 2007 graduate of tech incubator ... |
| 07.10.2010 | Songkick gets a boot up its traffic, as Yahoo integrates its gig listings API | Recently Yahoo attempted to bring the search fight back to Google Instant and Bing’s guided search by packaging up searches related to music, movies, or news, into a box with vertical tabs along the side. This is similar to Google’s Univers... |
| 29.09.2010 | Playlistnow.fm launches Twitter for sharing music playlists. Look out, Ping. | For anyone that has ever struggled to string together a music playlist – whether it be for listening to at the gym, a party, at work or just casually – you may want to listen up. Playlistnow.fm, a brand new startup coming out of Paris, rece... |
