| Date | Title | Description |
| 06.10.2014 | LumiFi App Brings Curated Mood Lighting to the Connected Home Scene | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
In the mind of Beatrice Witzgall, fumbling through the dark to turn on the lights will someday be a memory—if people starting using smartphones to control illumination.
“I thi... |
| 02.07.2014 | Google acquires music playlist generator Songza | Google has been on a spending spree this year, buying up a total of 20 startups already
Last year, Google got into the music streaming space with All Access, which was unveiled last May. Since then, though, I kind of have to admit that I fo... |
| 02.07.2014 | Songza | So yesterday it was announced that Google has purchased Songza. Congratulations to Elias Roman and his colleagues. They build a great product and sold it to a great company.
But I’d like to take a second to tell the story of Songza as I kno... |
| 02.07.2014 | Google Acquires Songza | Songza, a Long Island City, NY-based free streaming music service, has been acquired by Google (NASDAQ:GOOG).
The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.
Built by the team that founded crowd-priced MP3 download store AmieStreet.com in ... |
| 01.07.2014 | Songza confirms it's been acquired by Google | Songza has confirmed that Google has acquired the streaming-music startup, according to an emailed statement to VentureBeat.
Songza creates music mixes based on a variety of themes and factors, such as your mood or the local weather forecas... |
| 01.07.2014 | Songza confirms it's been acquired by Google | 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!
Songza has confirmed that Google has acquired the... |
| 06.06.2014 | Google may scoop up music-service Songza for $15M | Google is in talks to purchase streaming music service Songza in a deal worth $15 million, according to a New York Post report published today.
Songza creates music mixes based on a variety of themes and factors, such as your current mood o... |
| 06.06.2014 | Google Music Could Get Touchy-Feely If It Does Acquire Moody Playlist App Songza | “Google Play Music All-Access”. That tongue-twisting name says a lot about how well Google understands humans. It’s also why the New York Post’s report that Google is in talks to buy contextual playlist service Songza for $15 million seems ... |
| 22.04.2014 | How I Work: Clara Gustafson, Venture for America fellow with ZeroFOX | Come August, Clara Gustafson will have completed year one of her minimum two-year commitment to Baltimore.
The 23-year-old is one of seven fellows living and working in Baltimore city as part of Venture for America, a program that finds rec... |
| 27.03.2014 | Songza now pulls data from The Weather Channel to recommend music | 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 two most common factors that affect someone’s... |
| 27.03.2014 | Songza to deliver weather-driven music recommendations | Songza is an online music streaming service that attempts to predict what you're doing or feeling -- based on day, time, device type, location and past behavior -- and provide a curated playlist to suit. It offers playlists for a range of d... |
| 27.03.2014 | Songza Inks Deal With Weather Company To Integrate Rain Or Shine Into Your Music Playlists | Songza, the app that brings music to you instead of forcing you to hunt for it, today announced a deal with The Weather Company to integrate weather data into the app.
As it stands now, Songza uses the day, time, device type, your location,... |
| 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... |
| 10.12.2013 | Chromecast Gets 10 New Apps, Including Songza, VEVO, And Revision 3 | Slowly but surely, Google’s Chromecast devices is beefing up with content partners. The company just announced 10 new apps landing on the $35 smart TV dongle, including VEVO, Revision 3, PostTV, and Songza, to name a few.
For those of you w... |
| 04.12.2013 | Here Are 2013′s Most Popular Tunes, According To Our Informal Survey Of Music Startups | As we head into the last leg of 2013, you may find yourself misty-eyed, staring out the window and listening a mashup of this year’s biggest musical hits. It was a good year, and not just because One Direction decided to make a fragrance. S... |
| 24.10.2013 | SA 100 2013: The Coolest People In New York Tech
Check out the 2012 Silicon Alley 100 list | Business Insider / Mike Nudelman
Yahoo's $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr really put New York tech on the map this year.
But over the past few years, New York City has become a tech hotspot. Scroll through this year's Silicon Alley 100 &g... |
| 18.09.2013 | Slacker’s new iOS app adds a Songza-like feature to take on iTunes Radio & Pandora | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
While Apple is readying the launch of its brand new iTunes Radio streaming services, the existing crop of big music services are all pu... |
| 11.09.2013 | Songza Raises $4.7M in Funding | Songza, a New York-based music streaming service, raised a $4.7m in funding.
Backers include Amazon, William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, Lerer Ventures, Deep Fork Capital, Metamorphic Ventures, Troy Carter, Scooter Braun, and Gary Vayner... |
| 10.09.2013 | Songza Just Raised $4.7M For More Brand-Sponsored Playlists | Pick your poison! (screencap)
There’s a little more money in Long Island City today. Songza, which offers up playlists to suit your every mood, just announced a $4.7 million round of funding from a small mob of investors, including Lerer Ve... |
| 10.09.2013 | Songza raises $4.7M to scale new ad platform | Branded Moments allows brands to sponsor moments, and playlists, on the app
I've recently started using Spotify Radio on my phone when I go on walks, and, man, that thing is a pain to use sometimes. The genre stations are painfully unspecif... |
| 10.09.2013 | Songza Raises $4.7 Million Funding Round To Develop Advertising You May Actually Enjoy | Mood-based music streaming service Songza has raised a $4.7 million funding round, their second since they closed $2 million in 2011. Songza did not name a lead for the round, the investors for which include Amazon, William Morris Endeavor,... |
| 06.09.2013 | Let The Music Play: Spotify Is Raising Money Again At A $5.3B Valuation, Says Swedish Paper | Spotify, the very popular music streaming service, is moving ahead with its aggressive growth strategy, and it looks like it’s raising more money to do it: a report today in the Swedish financial paper Dagens Industri says that the Stockhol... |
| 11.08.2013 | TuneIn at Outside Lands: It’s our year to take on Spotify & Pandora | 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!
Roaming Outside Lands this weekend, I bumped into... |
| 10.08.2013 | Spotify Wants To Be Everything To Everyone | You can get a little music from a lot of places, but Spotify is on a quest to be your omni-jukebox. It’s already offers on-demand streaming and radio, and it’s just launched Browse, a new way to discover critic and community playlists for d... |
| 04.08.2013 | Spotify adds Songza-like ‘playlists for every mood’ and messaging with friends | 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!
Hot streaming music service Spotify will soon add... |
| 02.07.2013 | Epoch’s iOS app creates online video channels just for you (exclusive) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Epoch is bringing the wisdom of mood rings to mobile entertainment.
The startup launched a mobile video app today that shows you videos... |
| 28.06.2013 | Killer music app Songza debuts paid version with no ads for $1 a week | You have a ton of choices on web and mobile about where to listen to streaming music. One of the most underrated of them is Songza, which curates fresh, smart playlists for any mood, activity, or time of day.
But one thing that Songza has b... |
| 28.06.2013 | Music App Songza Goes Ad-Free With A New Paid Service, “Club Songza” For $0.99 Per Week | Songza, the music-streaming and recommendation service that has picked up some 4.8 million monthly active users with its free, ad-based service, is turning on a feature now that it hopes will convert some of its most loyal listeners into mo... |
| 28.06.2013 | Killer music app Songza debuts paid version with no ads for $1 a week | 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!
You have a ton of choices on web and mobile about... |
| 27.06.2013 | Foursquare, Yelp, and Songza apps all headed to Windows 8 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
SAN FRANCISCO — Windows 8 is about to get a handful of new high-quality apps to help give the OS more firepower including Foursquare, Y... |
| 03.06.2013 | Spotify Community ShareMyPlaylists Introduces Moods To Give Songza The Blues | Spotify community and playlist sharing site ShareMyPlaylists is rolling out a new feature today: Moods will let users select playlists based on, er, mood.
Feeling happy? The site has you covered. Feeling cool? There are playlists for hipste... |
| 02.05.2013 | Songza’s new iOS app predicts exactly what music you need to hear now | Ever felt like your favorite music app just doesn’t get you? With its latest iPhone app, Songza wants to get to know you better than ever and help find the perfect music for your mood or activity.
Songza is best known for curating playlists... |
| 02.05.2013 | Songza’s new iOS app predicts exactly what music you need to hear now | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Ever felt like your favorite music app just doesn’t get you? With its latest iPhone app, Songza wants to get to know you better than ev... |
| 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... |
| 15.04.2013 | Songza raises $3.8M to set a playlist to your mood | The free streaming music service offers up playlists based on day of the week and time of day
When you think of radio, what comes to mind? Probablyjust shock jocks, loudmouth political pundits, terrible top 40 Justin Beiber songs and the sa... |
| 15.04.2013 | Songza Raises $3.8M in Equity Funding | According to a filing with the S.E.C. (read here), Songza, a NYC-based provider of a music streaming app, raised $3.8m in equity funding.
Backers were not listed in the filing but it is known that 27 investors participated in the round.
Cre... |
| 14.04.2013 | Songza Raised $3.8M According To SEC Filing, Amazon Still In The Frame As An Investor | Songza, a free streaming music service that has expert-made playlists and runs on the web and various touch screen platforms, raised $3.8 million, according to an SEC filing. While Amazon has long been an “unconfirmed” investor listed on An... |
| 14.04.2013 | Songza secures $3.8M to keep music fans connected to killer 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!
Streaming music startup Songza has raised $3.82 m... |
| 07.01.2013 | iHeartRadio Copies Songza’s Music Concierge Feature | Clear Channel’s iHeartRadio launches a new feature today called “Perfect for.” Available on iHeartRadio’s website and in its mobile apps, the company has shamelessly copied Songza‘s popular music concierge feature. Every step of the user ex... |
| 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. ... |
| 24.10.2012 | Startup News: Bloomberg Wiring up NYC and Canadians Make Sweet Love to Songza | Mr. Bloomberg. (Twitter)
Time Warner Still Sucks On Friday, Mayor Bloomberg made a big move toward ing promise to expand broadband in New York. He launched ConnectNYC, a contest for small businesses that will award free fiber cable wiring (... |
| 18.10.2012 | Songza’s Canada Launch Nabs 1 Million New Users In 70 Days | Songza, a free app that streams expertly curated playlists to your phone, tablet or computer based on your activities, has topped 1 million downloads in Canada. The app only launched a couple months ago (70 days ago, to be exact).
It goes t... |
| 31.08.2012 | Feature Friday: Concierge | Eighty percent of all music listening happens in lean back mode where someone or something plays the music for you. That's a fact. I am not sure where I saw it, but I believe it to be true based on my own music listening experience.
That's ... |
| 25.07.2012 | Music or Marketing? Artist-Branded Apps Search for a Hit | When the iPhone welcomed third-party apps four years ago, the music industry, like everyone else, scrambled to find a revenue-generating angle. Band-specific apps began rolling out, highlighting musicians in the App Store. They haven’t exac... |
| 19.06.2012 | Startup News: New Dating Site Lets You Check Out Your Friends’ Friends; The Fancy Goes DIY | Now for sale on The Fancy: Cookie Monster cupcakes. (Photo: The Fancy)
The new OKCupid TheDatable, a new social dating site, allows users to tag their single or, more selectively, “datable” Facebook friends—so that prospective dates can bro... |
| 12.06.2012 | Startup News: CityMaps Expands Eastward; Hack’n Jill Reminds Us Girls Are Hackers, Too | (flickr.com/VancityAllie)
More maps CityMaps added Boston to its growing list of locales this week. The company also unveiled Featured Maps, which provides users with a layer of recommendations (think NYC and Co’s Best Pizza in NYC and New ... |
| 08.06.2012 | First Queens Tech Meetup Draws More Than 150 to Long Island City | Queens Tech Meetup Rooftop Reception
Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian stood at the front of a large room at the Hunters Point Plaza Penthouse in Long Island City, and looked out over the rows of tables set up for various startups based in th... |
| 27.04.2012 | Fornatale Remembered | Pete Fornatale |
| 21.03.2012 | Too lazy for Pandora? Songza’s music concierge will suggest the right tunes to match your mood | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Back on March 5th, streaming music service Songza released a new feature on its web app called Concierge. “We found in studies that the... |
| 21.03.2012 | Too lazy for Pandora? Songza’s music concierge will suggest the right tunes to match your mood | Back on March 5th, streaming music service Songza released a new feature on its web app called Concierge. “We found in studies that the main thing people disliked about Pandora and Spotify was having to work at discovering new music,” Elias... |
| 20.09.2011 | Songza.com Closes Financing Round | Songza.com, a Long Island City, NY-based free streaming music service, has closed a financing round of undisclosed amount.
Backers included Deep Fork Capital, Geoff Judge, co-founder of 24/7 Real Media, and an undisclosed strategic investor... |
| 16.09.2011 | Funding roundup - week ending 09/16/11 | A big week for financing across the spectrum of seed, early, late and growth-stage companies
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Getaround, a peer-to-peer car sharing service, raised $3.4 million in seed funding from CrunchFund, Netflix founder Marc Randolph, Time ... |
| 13.09.2011 | Songza Find the Perfect Playlist in 15 Seconds or Less | Songza Playlists
As a child, Betabeat used to lovingly curate the A and B sides of a 60 minutes cassette tape for each of our gift-giving relatives on Christmas. Since then, the mix tape has evolved into an element of the socially networked... |
| 13.09.2011 | Songza launches with "playlists for everything" | The cloud-based service lets users create and share playlists for free
A new cloud-based digital music service has launched to guide us out of the dark ages of paying for music. Songza, a service that allows users to create and share music ... |
| 13.09.2011 | What you need to know - 09/13/11 | Cull.tv launches new music television; CrunchFund's Getaround raises $3.4 million
Amazon is reportedly in talks with publishers over a new venture that could turn Kindle books into the Netflix of the literary world by creating a digital lib... |
| 13.09.2011 | Songza Raises Seven Figure Round; Launches Mobile, Sharable Music Collections In The Cloud | Mike first covered Amie Street back in 2006. At the time, he was a big fan. Back then, the startup was targeting a new music model, which allowed musicians to upload their songs to Amie Street’s platform, offering those tracks to listeners ... |
| 08.09.2010 | Amazon buys music service Amie Street | Site shut down planned for Sept. 22; founders begin working on new music service - Songza
Amie Street announced Wednesday that it's been acquired by Amazon for an undisclosed amount. The news comes three years after the giant online retaile... |
| 08.09.2010 | Amie Street gobbled by Amazon, morphs into new Songza | reader comments 21 with 15 posters participating
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| 08.09.2010 | Amazon Acquires Amie Street, But Not In A Good Way | Amie Street is one of those startups that just got me – love at first site if you will. I first discovered them in 2006, calling it an awesome new music model. Artists upload songs and those songs are free to download to start. As more down... |
| 08.04.2009 | Roundup: Aggregated links to newspaper web sites, and more | Here’s the latest action:
As an online publication largely comprised of former newspaper journalists — It’s pretty obvious what we here at VentureBeat think about newspaper leaders demanding payment anytime anyone aggregates any of their co... |
| 08.04.2009 | News Flash: Amie Street Swallowed Songza Six Months Ago | For months, popular music store Amie Street has kept a deal it forged with Songza, a media streaming service, under wraps. But this tweet (and a fair amount of research on our part) has uncovered the news: Amie Street acquired Songza back i... |
| 11.03.2009 | Social music startup DropPlay blends YouTube, Facebook and Pandora | Social music startup DropPlay launched today, tying together YouTube, Facebook and a recommendation service similar to Pandora Radio to provide what the company claims is the equivalent of a free online version of iTunes. The site lets you ... |
| 19.12.2008 | SeeqPod, a way to search for music and video on your mobile phone | SeeqPod, a company that lets you search for any “playable” content (music, video, presentations, etc) on the internet, legal and illegal, has released a stand-alone application for the Windows Mobile Platform today.
The application is meant... |
| 09.10.2008 | SonicSwap Puts Your iTunes Library On The Web For Streaming And Sharing | Since the launch of YouTube’s API and the release of Seeqpod, we’ve seen many sites emerge that allow users to create playlists of their favorite songs that can be streamed free of charge. Unfortunately, this can be a tedious task – oftenti... |
| 19.09.2008 | Favtape Relaunches As Muxtape On Steroids | It has been just over a month since Muxtape, a popular music site that let users share the online equivalent of cassette mixtapes, was shut down by the RIAA for copyright infringement issues. Since then we’ve seen the site reborn in a few i... |
| 02.09.2008 | We7 adds EMI Music tracks | We7 – the ad-supported music download service based in the UK backed by Eden Ventures and Spark Ventures – has signed a deal to add 400,000 tracks from EMI Music’s repertoire of artists, including, appropriately, We7 founder investor Peter ... |
| 17.07.2008 | Last.fm's Buggy, New Design | Last.fm has a new look today that simplifies the navigation of the main site and makes finding music easier. Or at least, it would make finding music easier if the site wasn’t so buggy. (At least for me. I couldn’t even log in without getti... |
| 03.07.2008 | Streamzy: A Fresh Face For Seeqpod's Streaming Music | We’ve seen a number of music sites like Seeqpod and Grooveshark that leverage user-uploaded music scattered across the web to offer free, on-demand jukeboxes. These services manage to skirt legal repercussions by only serving content that i... |
| 03.07.2008 | SeeqPod Launches PodLists | The music search engine SeeqPod has just announced a new service for music fans: “PodLists.” Because of the massive amount of playable search results available on the SeeqPod service – 12 million at the moment and ever-growing – it can be d... |
| 26.06.2008 | Does Open Sourcing Niche Web Apps Work? | Recently, we’ve seen a couple of our favorite web apps go open source. The code for FF To Go, the popular mobile client for FriendFeed developed by RSSMeme creator Benjamin Golub, is now available under the MIT license and Snackr, the RSS A... |
| 26.06.2008 | Jogli's Music Search Streams 500M Songs, 12M Albums | Meet Jogli, a music search engine that claims to offer immediate listening access to 500M songs and 12M albums.
It would be valid to argue that there can’t possibly be more room for yet another music destination. However, having spent the p... |
| 16.05.2008 | Songza Announces Facebook App and API | The music search engine and Internet jukebox, Songza, lets you seek out any song on the web and stream it immediately. In January of this year, we announced the site’s partnerships with Seeqpod and Skreemr, which allowed them to grown their... |
| 13.05.2008 | MeeMix Remixes YouTube To Create Personalized Music Video Channels | MeeMix keeps plugging along on its journey to attract more users to its personalized Internet radio service. Today the company is adding a new feature which complements users’ radio stations with “twin” music video channels.
While Last.fm i... |
| 12.05.2008 | Twitter for Music | Twitter is an efficient technology for spreading and harvesting concise ideas. Unfortunately, it’s not so great for sharing rich media. Want to broadcast a video? You’ll have to settle for a TinyURL to YouTube, or maybe switch over to Seesm... |
| 24.04.2008 | Chilirec Is Like TiVo for Internet Radio | Chilirec is a new Swedish music site found through Go2Web20 that extracts individual tracks from internet radio stations. It then lets you either play them back in the browser or download them as MP3 files for later use.
You start with Chil... |
| 07.03.2008 | Bloxes Brings Cardboard Tech To The Office | There is nothing that screams “frugal startup” more than cardboard furniture. Aza Raskin, the founder of Songza and Humanized who was recently hired by Mozilla, designed his own system of cardboard building blocks that can be assembled into... |
| 25.01.2008 | Weekly Wrapup, 21-25 Jan 2008 | Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. For those of you reading this via our website, note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email.
Highlights this week: Marshall e... |
| 23.01.2008 | Songza, Last.fm Expand Music Libraries | Music sites Songza and Last.fm separately announced major upgrades to their streaming music libraries. In Songza’s case, the additional tracks came via partnerships with competing web sites, while Last.fm snagged the support of major labels... |
| 23.01.2008 | 38 free/cheap music sites — Welcome to the fray, Qbox! | Ever since Napster brought free MP3s mainstream — and subsequently garnered the wrath of the Recording Industry Association of America — the music industry has been reeling.
No single strategy for listening to music online has come to domin... |
| 18.01.2008 | Songza Adds More Songs With Help From Seeqpod | Today Songza just got bigger by embracing one of its rivals. The music-search engine (and Crunchies nominee) is incorporating song search results from Seeqpod, expanding the number of songs it can stream from 15.5 million to 23.5 million. N... |
| 15.01.2008 | The Music Industry's Going to Love This: Desktop Client for SeeqPod Released | A new desktop application called Songbeat has been released that allows you to search the web for MP3s using Seeqpod technology, stream those MP3s, and even download them.
Seeqpod, which we covered alongside Skreemr and Songza, is a search ... |
| 15.01.2008 | Breaking: Mozilla Hires Humanized Founders | We hear that the Mozilla Foundation is buying hiring three of the principle folks from Humanized, a small software user-interface shop in Chicago founded by Aza Raskin, the son of famous Apple interface designer Jef Raskin. Humanized has be... |
| 28.11.2007 | Music Search Engines Tread Fine Legal Line | Music search engines are just one of the many ways to get free music on the Internet (BitTorrent and MP3Sparks, formerly AllofMP3, are other popular ways). But for some users they are a near perfect way to listen to music on demand, and/or ... |
| - | SA 100 2014: The Coolest People In New York City Tech | Business Insider New York City has become home to some of the tech industry's most promising companies, including Etsy, MongoDB, and Vice Media.
So we created the Silicon Alley 100 to celebrate people who did the coolest things in the past ... |
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