BY ETHAN SMITH AND SPENCER E. ANTE
Spotify AB will begin offering Facebook-style apps that add various features and functions to its popular online-music service, a move that could differentiate the Swedish company amid growing competition from Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc.
Wednesday's announcement at a press conference in New York included presentations of apps from Rolling Stone magazine, CBS Corp.'s music-recommendation service Last.fm and Songkick, which helps inform users about coming concerts by artists they like.
Since Stockholm-based Spotify is opening its app platform to any developer, much as Apple does for its iPhone app store, more functions are likely to arrive soon.
Though ...
BY ETHAN SMITH AND SPENCER E. ANTE
Spotify AB will begin offering Facebook-style apps that add various features and functions to its popular online-music service, a move that could differentiate the Swedish company amid growing competition from Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc.
Wednesday's announcement at a press conference in New York included presentations of apps from Rolling Stone magazine, CBS Corp.'s music-recommendation service Last.fm and Songkick, which helps inform users about coming concerts by artists they like.
Since Stockholm-based Spotify is opening its app platform to any developer, much as Apple does for its iPhone app store, more functions are likely to arrive soon.
Though ...
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