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Streaming services 'save' Swedish record industry

Business & Money: 24 Jan 12
While Swedish CD sales are continuing to drop significantly, record companies’ revenue from streaming services like Spotify is soaring and digital sales now amount to over half of the companies’ proceeds, according to fresh figures from trade organization IFPI. READ »

Why should I study in Sweden?

Study in Sweden: 17 Jan 12
It is a big step to study abroad, and the options are almost limitless. So what makes Sweden stand out as a study destination? READ »

Ek the 'most important man in music': Forbes

Science & Technology: 6 Jan 12
Swedish internet music service Spotify’s ground breaking inventor Daniel Ek has been hailed the most important person in the world of music by American journal Forbes. READ »

Swedish Soundcloud set to expand with new American investment

Business & Money: 4 Jan 12
The Swedish online audio platform Soundcloud announced on Wednesday that they are teaming up with American company Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Buyers to further expand their lucrative business. READ »

Ashton Kutcher in 'secret' Stockholm visit

Society: 22 Dec 11
Hollywood star Ashton Kutcher swept into Stockholm on Wednesday, spending time at the headquarters of Swedish music streaming service Spotify before heading out for a night on the town. READ »

Spotify launches app platform

Business & Money: 1 Dec 11
Online music service Spotify on Wednesday announced that it planned to open up to outside developers to create applications, unveiling partnerships with Rolling Stone, SongKick, TuneWiki and others. READ »

Spotify hits 2.5 million subscriber milestone

Business & Money: 24 Nov 11
Swedish online music star Spotify said Wednesday that it has reached 2.5 million paying subscribers. READ »

Spotify announcement prompts flurry of online rumours

Business & Money: 22 Nov 11
A promise by Swedish music streaming service Spotify on Monday to unveil a “new direction” has sparked a flurry of rumours and speculation about what sort of innovation the company may have in store. READ »

Swedish toddlers surf the internet in droves: report

Science & Technology: 16 Nov 11
Every other Swedish 3-year-old uses the internet, more than 50 percent of Swedes use Facebook, and there are more computers than people in Sweden, according to a new study. READ »

Jobs 'our time's Da Vinci': Spotify CEO

Science & Technology: 6 Oct 11
Swedish IT notables and politicians are among those joining in the chorus of praise for the life of Steve Jobs, the charismatic co-founder of Apple who died on Wednesday aged 56. READ »

Spotify defends demand for Facebook tie in

Business & Money: 28 Sep 11
Swedish music retailer and streaming service Spotify has defended its decision to require Facebook membership from all new users, explaining that the tie in is "all about creating an amazing new world of music discovery". READ »

Spotify and Facebook in music partnership

Business & Money: 23 Sep 11
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday presented a partnership with Swedish firm Spotify, to make its popular music streaming service an integral part of the social media website's platform. READ »

Swedes pioneer new 'Spotify for e-books'

Science & Technology: 15 Sep 11
Following in the footsteps of Swedish streaming music service Spotify, a group of tech entrepreneurs believe they've found a similar solution that could revolutionise the book market, The Local's Geoff Mortimore discovers. READ »

Top ten Swedish tech innovations

Science & Technology: 7 Sep 11
Sweden is renowned for its innovation and strong research tradition and The Local has compiled a list of ten technological breakthroughs of the last decade. READ »

Windfall on the cards for Spotify staff

Business & Money: 12 Aug 11
Employees of online music streaming service Spotify who took up the option to buy shares are set for a huge windfall. READ »

Spotify service fails on music quality: report

Science & Technology: 22 Jul 11
Music streaming service Spotify may be in breach of Swedish marketing laws, according to claims in a report published on Friday, with many finding that the quality of the music does not match company promises. READ »

Spotify aims high after US launch

Science & Technology: 15 Jul 11
Swedish music streaming service Spotify launched its popular service in the US on Thursday, hoping to repeat its success in Europe which has seen the firm attract more than ten million users. READ »

Spotify set for US launch

Business & Money: 14 Jul 11
Swedish music streaming service Spotify is set to launch its popular service in the US on Thursday. READ »

Spotify signs deal with Virgin Media

National: 7 Jul 11
Virgin Media announced on Wednesday it had agreed a deal with Sweden's Spotify to offer music streaming services for the British company's television, mobile phone and Internet subscribers. READ »

Spotify and Facebook in music streaming tie-in

Science & Technology: 26 May 11
Swedish music service Spotify and social networking giant Facebook are collaborating on a streaming music service, according to a media report Wednesday. READ »

Spotify takes fight to iTunes with iPod app

Business & Money: 4 May 11
Swedish music service Spotify has launched an iPod app, as the firm seeks compete for music sales with Apple's iTunes and expand user options after imposing restrictions on its free streaming service last month. READ »

Spotify to set limits on free music streaming

Science & Technology: 14 Apr 11
Swedish music streaming service Spotify has announced plans to implement new limits on its free service in hopes of encouraging more users to pay for the services premium features. READ »

Spotify shuts down ads as virus strikes

Business & Money: 25 Mar 11
Swedish online music streaming service Spotify has switched off its adverts after users of its ad-supported version reported being hit by a virus attack. READ »

Spotify hits million paying user milestone

Business & Money: 8 Mar 11
Swedish digital music service Spotify now has one million paying users, the company announced on Tuesday, more than twice as many compared to a year ago. READ »

New music service takes up the Spotify gauntlet

Business & Money: 24 Feb 11
Scandinavian mobile technology firm Aspiro has announced the impending launch in Sweden of WiMP, a new music streaming service hoping to imitate the success of pioneering Swedish site Spotify. READ »

US student builds online travel dreams in Sweden

Travel: 24 Jan 11
While he first came to Sweden for the free education and "hot women on bicycles," American entrepreneur Peter Sullivan now finds himself the centre of a new brand of social networking business, contributor Malin Nyberg discovers. READ »

Spotify signs US deal with Sony: report

Science & Technology: 21 Jan 11
Swedish online music service Spotify has inked its first US distribution deal, bringing the popular music service one step closer to the desktops and mobile phones of US-based listeners. READ »

Spotify poaches radio revenues

Science & Technology: 16 Nov 10
The radio is losing ground in the advertising market to digital broadcasters such as Spotify, according to a Swedish media industry organisation. READ »

Swedish entrepreneur launches first Social Exchange: Introducing Social Networking 2.0

Business & Money: 15 Sep 10
Sponsored article: Swedish internet visionary and serial entrepreneur Johan Staël von Holstein is back, this time with MyCube, which he calls 'the social exchange,' where privacy, ownership and control are the foundations that enable more valuable and meaningful online interactions. READ »

Songwriter royalty fees surge through Spotify

Science & Technology: 24 Jun 10
Payments from the Swedish Performing Rights Society (Sveriges Tonsättares Internationella Musikbyrå, STIM) for music listening through Spotify have increased eightfold in one year. READ »

Spotify boost for Swedish music firm coffers

Business & Money: 27 May 10
Swedish online music service Spotify is starting to become a major revenue stream for Swedish music companies as digital sales are forecast to account for 25 percent of income in 2010. READ »

'Streaming overtakes file sharing': report

National: 13 Feb 10
Although file sharing over the internet continues to grow in Sweden it is becoming dwarfed by online streaming of TV and and films, according to a new report by the internet company Cisco. READ »

Sweden sets pace as countries race to tackle music piracy

Science & Technology: 27 Jan 10
Countries all over the world are following the lead of Sweden, France and South Korea as the battle against illegal music downloads intensifies. READ »

Top ten Swedish songs of the decade

Lifestyle: 18 Dec 09
Songs of the decade: The Local's editor Paul O'Mahony dips into the vaults and pulls out his ten favourite Swedish tracks of the last ten years. READ »

File sharing in Sweden nears record high

National: 6 Dec 09
Following a severe drop in the aftermath of Ipred, Sweden’s new anti-piracy law implemented in April, illegal file sharing is once again on the rise, reaching record high levels. READ »

Stockholm Pride asks: 'how hetero' is your Facebook?

Society: 26 Nov 09
Facebook users can now check to see "how hetero" the pictures they have posted on the popular social networking site are, thanks to a new web application launched this week. READ »

Spotify launches Symbian mobile app

Business & Money: 23 Nov 09
Swedish online music service Spotify announced on Monday that it has launched an application for mobile phones running the Symbian operating system. READ »

Swedes scramble to join new online movie service

Science & Technology: 11 Nov 09
A new service for watching movies over the internet for free has attracted more than a quarter of a million Swedes since its launch two weeks ago. READ »

Spotify and Telia sign two-year deal

Business & Money: 8 Oct 09
Telecoms operator TeliaSonera and Swedish music service Spotify have signed a two-year cooperation agreement that will enable Telia’s customers to use Spotify in computers, mobile phones and TVs in the Swedish market. READ »

Spotify ties make Pirate Bay judge biased: court

Science & Technology: 29 Sep 09
A Swedish court ruled on Tuesday that a lay judge set to hear the next phase of the Pirate Bay trial is unsuitable for the job because he works for the Spotify digital music service. READ »

Bias allegations mount in Pirate Bay case

Science & Technology: 24 Sep 09
Two of the three judges in the Pirate Bay case are biased, according to the defence counsel, Per E. Samuelsson, in a new submission to the appeals court. READ »

New bias suspicions in Pirate Bay legal battle

Science & Technology: 21 Sep 09
Rumours are circulating about another possible conflict of interest in the upcoming appeals court proceedings against the men behind Swedish file sharing site, The Pirate Bay. READ »

Spotify launches iPhone app

Business & Money: 7 Sep 09
Swedish music streaming service Spotify announced the launch of the Spotify App for iPhone and iPod touch at the Apple iTunes App Store on Monday. READ »

Apple approves Spotify for iPhones

Business & Money: 28 Aug 09
Apple has approved Swedish firm Spotify’s iPhone application, which will allow users to stream music to their handsets. READ »

'Spotify are the new pirates': Swedish artist

Business & Money: 13 Aug 09
Swedish musician Magnus Uggla has withdrawn his music from streaming music service Spotify saying that he'd rather be "raped by the Pirate Bay than shafted by Sony Music". READ »

'Spotify earns us more than iTunes': Sony BMG

Business & Money: 11 Aug 09
Swedish digital streaming music service Spotify is proving to be the saviour of the music industry after years of falling sales. Music company Sony BMG Sweden confirms that revenues from Spotify now outstrip iTunes. READ »

Music biz snapped up Spotify shares

Business & Money: 7 Aug 09
Several major record companies bought up almost one fifth of the shares in the rapidly expanding Swedish online music streaming service Spotify prior to the company's public launch, new documents reveal. READ »

Fresh capital to help fund Spotify's US expansion

Business & Money: 4 Aug 09
Sweden’s Spotify hopes to use a major new investment to help the company expand its online music service in the United States, according to new reports. READ »

Spotify aims for iPhone exposure

Business & Money: 27 Jul 09
The Swedish streaming music provider Spotify has applied for its software to be made available on Apple's iPhone. READ »

File sharing - Time to come out of the closet?

Analysis & Opinion: 6 Apr 09
File sharing, once the preserve of armchair anarchists, has slowly trickled down to the middle classes, writes Peter Vinthagen Simpson. And with a new law cracking down on the practice, even the dinner party set are getting their hands dirty. READ »

Spotify interview: The source of the stream

Lifestyle: 23 Feb 09
The Local’s Thanh Dinh catches up with Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify, the Sweden-based music streaming service that is making friends with everyone from the armchair music fan to Bono. READ »

Licensing restrictions hit Swedish online music service

Society: 12 Feb 09
The Sweden-based online music service Spotify, welcomed by many as a giant leap forward in the distribution of music online, has raised intellectual property rights concerns from several record labels. READ »

Ten ways to save money in Sweden

Lifestyle: 2 Dec 08
From cheap dates with movie stars to the latest free music service, Thanh Dinh has some great tips for biting back at the credit crunch. READ »

Swedish firm joins battle for online music market

Science & Technology: 7 Oct 08
Innovative Swedish music-streaming site Spotify confirmed on Tuesday a series of major music licensing deals to coincide with the launch of its new international site. READ »

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