Tag archive: Daniel Ek

Spotify has relaunched its radio with new an all-new feature set, gently edging itself into territory currently occupied by the likes of Pandora and Sirius XM. In fact, Spotify's CEO Daniel Ek made it quite clear who the company had in its sights with the new radio, describing it as “kind of like Pandora with unlimited skipping and stations,” while on stage at the LeWeb'11 conference this morning. The new version offers… Read More

Spotify is now an app platform. At an event in New York today that is ending now, Spotify CEO and Founder Daniel Ek revealed its newest plan to edge out its streaming rivals: apps. As Facebook and so many other services are slowly doing, Spotify is planning to allow developers to make custom apps that interact with its streaming music service. Examples of apps that could appear on the service include an app that displays song lyrics, a concert… Read More