Will the Music Industry Embrace Voice-Controlled Technology?; Senegalese Music Start-ups Race to Be West Africa's Spotify

For those of you following technology industry trends, it would not be surprising that many experts have been calling 2017 the “Year of Voice”. Along with VR and AI, voice recognition has the…

Spotify’s valuation continues to rise in private trades, a signal of strong demand for a stake in the world’s largest streaming music company ahead of it going public.

"I'm a businessman first and a musician second," says Pandora's new, guitar-playing CEO Roger Lynch, "but I'm excited to apply what I've learned to a ­category I'm passionate about."

Russia's Yandex.Music has become the country's first music streaming service to enter an integration deal with Facebook, under which users will be able to share excerpts from music tracks with their friends, the company announced.

TunesMap, which offers a feed of videos, photographs and links to related material when songs are streamed, will make its debut as an Apple TV app in November.

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) this month released a report on the entertainment and media (E&M) industry in five of Africa’s leading economies.

As the music industry continues its second year of promising recovery following the disruption of the digital marketplace and embraces streaming as the dominant form of music consumption, the question is already being raised - what technology will be the next industry disruptor.

A quarter of Americans listen to podcasts each month, but far fewer make them. Anchor is a startup that is looking to change that with its app that makes it..

The MPAA, RIAA and other entertainment industry groups wants China to step up its game when it comes to copyright enforcement. While significant progress has been made in recent years, new threats regularly emerge.

Interest in digital entertainment is growing in West Africa but a lack of credit cards has prevented big players from making inroads.