The Echo Nest

On a brutal December day, 17% of Spotify employees found out they had been laid off in the company’s third round of job cuts last year. Not long after, music fans around the world realized that the

Personalization comes at a steep price. All your data gets sucked up into a company’s servers where they can do whatever they want with it. But Canopy is a new content discovery startup that&#82

Truffle Pig is just one of the new musical inventions dreamed up at the sonic skunkworks born from Spotify’s $100 million acquisition of The Echo Nest. Deep inside Spotify’s New York head

Music streaming service Rdio is getting rid of partner The Echo Nest, its CEO Anthony Bay told CNBC in an interview published this week (via Verge). The news comes despite promises by The Echo Nest an

"We want to enable straight playback from Spotify on other services", CEO Daniel Ek tells me. It's part of why his company just acquired The Echo Nest, the top music personalization and discovery API

Spotify has acquired The Echo Nest, as revealed by an official blog post today. The financial details of the acquisition haven’t been revealed, but The Echo Nest is a self-described “music

<a target="_blank" href="http://echonest.com">The Echo Nest</a>, a "music intelligence" company whose technology powers recommendations in services like Rdio and Clear Channel's iHeartRadio, is now lo

Music intelligence startup <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/the-echo-nest">Echo Nest</a>, which you might know better as the company <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/12/16/the-echo-nest-

<a href="http://www.vevo.com/">VEVO</a> launched officially to the world in December 2009, and in the same month <a href="http://blog.vevo.com/vevo-launches-as-1-music-network-in-the-us/">became the m

For a long time now, Spotify has had its own Radio experience, but, to be honest, it hasn't been very good. Then, last week, the Swedish-turned-America music service <a href="http://www.spotify.com/us