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2. Sean Parker - Wikipedia

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   Sean Parker (born December 3, 1979) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist, most notable for co-founding the file-sharing computer service Napster, and was the first president of the social networking website Facebook. He also co-founded Plaxo, Causes, Airtime.com, and Brigade, an online platform for civic engagement.

3. Facebook introduces a new miniplayer that streams Spotify ...

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   Facebook announced last week an expanded partnership with streaming music service Spotify that would bring a new way to listen to music or podcasts directly within Facebook's app, which it called ...

4. Spotify - Wikipedia

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   Spotify was founded in 2006 in Stockholm, Sweden, by Daniel Ek, former CTO of Stardoll, and Martin Lorentzon, co-founder of Tradedoubler. According to Ek, the company's title was initially misheard from a name shouted by Lorentzon. Later they conceived a portmanteau of "spot" and "identify". Early international launches

5. Spotify paid $9 billion in royalties in 2023. Here's what ...

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   March 19, 2024 at 12:01 AM. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Spotify paid out $9 billion in streaming royalties last year, the streaming giant said Tuesday in its latest “Loud and Clear” report. Spotify's ...

6. Meta Platforms - Wikipedia

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   Meta Platforms, Inc., [10] doing business as Meta, [11] and formerly named Facebook, Inc., and TheFacebook, Inc., [12] [13] is an American multinational technology conglomerate based in Menlo Park, California. The company owns and operates Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, among other products and services. [14]

7. Spotify Q1 Total User Growth of 24% Misses Expectations ... - AOL

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   Spotify reported results for the first quarter of 2021 in line with expectations, with total revenue up 16% — helped by 46% uptick in ad sales. The streaming audio giant also said podcast ...

8. Criticism of Spotify - Wikipedia

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   Spotify, a music streaming company, has attracted significant criticism since its 2006 launch, mainly over artist compensation. Unlike physical sales or downloads, which pay artists a fixed price per song or album sold, Spotify pays royalties based on the artist's "market share"—the number of streams for their songs as a proportion of total songs streamed on the service.

9. 'They've gone too far': How Spotify dug a giant hole — and ...

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   Spotify made its public market debut via a direct listing in April 2018, and shares opened for trading at $165.90, giving the company a valuation of $29.5 billion. The stock closed at $149.60 at ...