Should Apple Buy Pandora?; Reinventing Radio with Anchor 2.0

Should Apple Buy Pandora? — seekingalpha.com 
 Would it make sense for Apple to buy the streaming music and internet radio market leader? Deal could accelerate Pandora’s quest to profitability.

Reinventing radio with Anchor 2.0 and a new round of funding led by Accel — medium.com 
 The new Anchor lets you broadcast your voice, clip external sound bites, mix in full length tracks from Apple Music and Spotify, take call-ins from your listeners, and add interludes created by world…

Google Play Music’s first original podcast is a guide to city soundtracks — www.theverge.com 
 Google Play Music has today launched its first original podcast, City Soundtracks. Available on Google’s streaming service (and on iTunes!), the series will offer listeners a guide round the…

Spotify Could Use It’s New Acquisition To Take On Soundcloud — www.hypebot.com 
 Last year rumors swirled that Spotify was in talks to buy SoundCloud. Spotify’s interest eventually waned, apparently because it did not want strain it’s pre-IPO balance sheet.

The rise and fall of Napster — www.nydailynews.com 
 To many, music is priceless and in 2000, Napster quite literally made it free for all. Nearly every song ever recorded was available to download instantly at the click of a button at no cost — but it wasn’t to last.

Bitcoin technology could change the streaming industry forever — www.dancingastronaut.com 
 A handful of new startups aim to apply Bitcoin’s blockchain technology to music metadata ensures artists are paid royalties from even unauthorized streams.

James Hetfield calls Metallica’s Napster lawsuit a “moral battle” and “not about money” — www.tonedeaf.com.au

Hetfield stressed the band are a fan of technology, and have been embracing it since it became apparent that’s where the future of the industry was. “Our battle with people giving our stuff away was a moral battle”, he explains.

NASCAR and SiriusXM extend broadcasting agreement through 2022 — www.espn.com 
 SiriusXM will continue to air all races from NASCAR’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, as well as every NASCAR XFINITY Series and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race.

Ed Sheeran ‘wouldn’t be where he is today without Napster’ — metro.co.uk 
 ‘I know that’s a bad thing to say’.

I made a cross-platform SoundCloud® player with Fuse — blog.prototypr.io 
 Every once in a while, we get requests from users who wants to see what “real app code” looks like when made with Fuse.