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| Aug 4, 2014 | Rhapsody Acquires SoundTracking And Exfm To Boost Music Sharing And Discovery | Rhapsody, the stalwart music streaming service with 2 million paying subscribers, today acquired Schematic Labs, makers of “Instagram for songs” app SoundTracking, and Exfm, a social music discovery service that had been shut down since May... |
| Aug 4, 2014 | Rhapsody acquires music discovery service Ex.fm & 'Instagram' for music SoundTracking | 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!
Updated at 2:35 p.m. PST with a comment from Rhap... |
| Aug 4, 2014 | Rhapsody acquires music discovery service Ex.fm & 'Instagram' for music SoundTracking | Updated at 2:35 p.m. PST with a comment from Rhapsody exec Paul Springer and details about the company’s acquisition of Schematic Labs.
Music discovery startup Ex.fm has been acquired by Rhapsody for an undisclosed amount, the companies ann... |
| Aug 4, 2014 | Rhapsody Acquires Music Discovery Startups SoundTracking and Ex.fm | Rhapsody, the Seattle-based online subscription music service, announced today that it has acquired the NYC-based music discovery startup Ex.fm, as well as the Bay Area-based Schematic Labs, which created the music moment sharing platform S... |
| Oct 31, 2013 | SoundTracking Launches Updated App With New ‘Discover’ Section For Trending Music | Music-focused social network SoundTracking released a new version of its smartphone app today, one that co-founder and CEO Steve Jang said will make the app useful beyond “hardcore music lovers.”
We’re also hearing that SoundTracking has re... |
| Jul 11, 2013 | SoundTracking Update Adds Song Request DMs, Hashtag Support And Auto Music Recognition From Gracenote | SoundTracking, the iOS and Android app with 2 million active users that lets users share with others the music they are listening to, is releasing an update today that takes the app to a new level of usefulness. It is adding song requests a... |
| Mar 31, 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... |
| Jan 10, 2013 | Soundtracking Remixes iOS App To Match Its Musical Photo Twitter Cards That Boosted Referrals 30% | With nearly three million downloads and 300,000 active users, Soundtracking lets you share what you’re listening to. But when it added a Twitter Card integration to turn tweets into musical photos, referrals went up 30%, and it knew its iOS... |
| Dec 20, 2012 | SoundTracking 2.0 Rocks Android-Only Features To Bake In YouTube And A Music ID Lock Screen Widget | There’s some cool things you can only do on Android, and today music moment sharing app SoundTracking starts takes advantage of them. You can watch YouTube music videos of shared songs without leaving SoundTracking, or identify songs Shazam... |
| Dec 12, 2012 | Soundtracking’s New Twitter Cards Music Integration Lets You Hear Photos Within Tweets | While Instagram has pulled its photos out of the Twitter stream, tweets from Soundtracking now stream music in-line. The music moment-sharing app joins a small club including YouTube, Rdio, Official.fm, and Soundtracking that are pushing th... |
| Oct 22, 2012 | Making Music Together: SoundTracking Debuts New Spotify App With Instagram Integration And Playlists | Today, the relationship between social music startup SoundTracking and Spotify became a little more harmonious: the startup from Schematic Labs is the latest to launch an app for Spotify, making it the latest platform where users can create... |
| Mar 19, 2012 | Steve Jang: The Difference Between Last.fm And Imeem Was “Escape Velocity” | Oh the perils of music startups! When CBS acquired European music scrobbler Last.fm in 2007 for $280 million we called it a failure, and closely tracked it versus the machinations of non-acquired competitor imeem. When imeem sold to Myspace... |
| Dec 14, 2011 | An iPhone Lover’s Take On The Galaxy Nexus | You have to hand it to Google . They know that I prefer Apple products and have been generally critical of many Google moves in the past couple of years. And yet, they’re unafraid to give me their newest products to test out. To be honest, ... |
| Nov 9, 2011 | Schematic Labs Completes $4.75M Financing | Schematic Labs, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of mobile social entertainment applications and creator of SoundTracking, a mobile music app for iPhone and iPod touch, has completed a $4.75m financing.
This round was led by Accel Partner... |
| Nov 8, 2011 | Accel, True Ventures And Softbank Plunk $4.75M Into Music Sharing App SoundTracking | With almost a million users and six million songs shared daily, Schematic Labs’ social music sharing app SoundTracking is today announcing that it has raised $4.75 million in Series A funding led by Accel Partners, True Ventures and Softban... |
| Aug 16, 2011 | Onesheet, The About.me For Bands, Adds 10,000 Artists In Just Over A Month; Launches Public Beta | Over the last few years, the music industry has endured some serious growing pains. And while the industry still wears its new digital outfit like an ill-fitting coat made of cassettes, I, for one, love hearing about young startups that are... |
| Jul 12, 2011 | Play For iPhone Coming Tomorrow, AOL Pitches Me Over Instagram | Back in March, we noted that the mobile-first group inside of AOL was pushing forward with a pretty nice new music app called “Play”. The timing was good, they released it just as SXSW was kicking off. Unfortunately, it was Android-only — m... |
| Jun 27, 2011 | Frenzapp Takes On SoundTracking With A Social Music Discovery App For iOS | Last winter, Singapore-based Bitsmedia launched a new app into the marketplace called Frenzapp that enables users to share their favorite iPhone apps with friends, joining a cluster of services taking on Apple’s Genius in the attempt to mak... |
| Jun 22, 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... |
| Jun 13, 2011 | How Twitter Could Make Apple's Ping the Next MySpace (In a Good Way, That Is) | Apple (APPL) quietly began a partnership with Twitter during last week's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) to integrate the social network more into Apple mobile products. Picture sharing and other aspects were discussed, but the bigge... |
| Jun 11, 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... |
| Jun 10, 2011 | With Neighborhoods And A New Website, SoundTracking Sounds More Like The "Musical Postcard" | When we first covered the launch of SoundTracking back in March, co-founder Steve Jang explained his vision for the service as a sort of “musical postcard”. That is, it’s not just about the music, it’s about the music mixed with location an... |
| May 31, 2011 | Disrupt Backstage Pass: So What, Exactly, Is Social Music? (TCTV) | One of the most interesting panels at last week’s Disrupt featured a discussion about social music between Steve Jang the co-founder and CEO of Schematic Labs and Alexander Ljung the founder and CEO of SoundCloud.
Jang and Ljung are both de... |
| May 3, 2011 | Qwiki iPad App Hits 250K Downloads In 11 Days | TechCrunch Disrupt winner Qwiki launched its iPad app in the App Store a less than a week ago and after 11 days has hit the quarter of a million downloads milestone. This is notable for an iPad app, especially when compared to other highly ... |
| Apr 28, 2011 | (Fly Or Die) Can TweetDeck's New iPhone App Survive A Twitter Acquisition | TweetDeck’s new iPhone app came out a couple days ago. It is completely redesigned from the ground up and looks more like it’s Android cousin than the first TweetDeck for iPhone. Instead of cramming as much as possible into an iPhone screen... |
| Apr 25, 2011 | Social Music App SoundTracking Passes 250K Downloads | Launched at SXSW, social music app SoundTracking has announced its quarter of a million milestone today, surpassing 250K downloads in just six weeks after launch on the iPhone. With 100K downloads taking place in the app’s first two weeks o... |
| Mar 29, 2011 | SoundTracking Is A Hit! Reaches 100K Downloads In Two Weeks | If you haven’t noticed by the amount of follower notifications you’re suddenly receiving, music snippet sharing app SoundTracking has a had an impressive 14 full days since its SXSW launch, clocking in 100K downloads from the Apple App Stor... |
| Mar 29, 2011 | Social music app SoundTracking passes 100K downloads | SoundTracking, a mobile application for telling your friends about the music you’re listening to, has been downloaded more than 100,000 in the two weeks since it launched, according to co-founder and chief executive Steve Jang.
Users identi... |
| Mar 19, 2011 | Dogpatch Labs San Francisco Additions & Updates | Redeem now
For South by Southwest 2011, we constructed a two-day long Dogpatch Labs SXSW and, over that period, hosted 100s of entrepreneurs. It was a lot of fun and a big success (TheStreet, Inc, NY Observer, etc).
The weekend also reminde... |
| Mar 15, 2011 | SoundTracking Sings The Praises Of "Mobile-First" And "From-The-Ground-Up Social" | Late last week, we first wrote about SoundTracking, a new iPhone application from Schematic Labs that allows you to easily share not only the music you’re listening to, but the music you’re listening to in the context that you’re listening ... |
| Mar 11, 2011 | SoundTracking Sets Out To Share Your Music Moments In A Postcard-Like Manner | Twitter allows you to share a short message at any given time. Foursquare allows you to share your location at any given time. Instagram allows you to share your photos at any given time. IntoNow allows you to share what you’re watching on ... |
| Super Neural – True Founder Camp IV – Spring 2011 | Metcalfe’s law states that the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of connected nodes or users. With all due respect to Dr. Metcalfe, I think he only got it half right (1). In addition to just the number of nodes,... |
| Connecting people never goes out of style | Connection is an essential part of the human experience. And since we don’t often have the luxury of face-to-face contact with our friends, family and business associates, communications has become one of the most important resources in our... |
