| Date | Title | Description |
| 18.03.2015 | Resource for scientists studying music and the brain enlists wearables, online music libraries | In an email, Sync Project co-founder Ketki Karanam provided a description of the project.
Participants in a study would download the project platform as an app. The app will play music and connect with wearable sensors to track their biolog... |
| 07.03.2014 | Spotify Acquires The Echo Nest | Music streaming service Spotify is to acquire music intelligence company The Echo Nest.
The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.
With the acquisition, Spotify will leverage The Echo Nest’s musical understanding and tools for curatio... |
| 06.03.2014 | Spotify Acquires The Echo Nest, Gaining Control Of The Music DNA Company That Powers Its Rivals | 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 intelligence company” that does things like determi... |
| 06.03.2014 | Spotify purchases music discovery engine The Echo Nest | The Echo Nest API will remain open to developers
The music streaming space is all about getting the right music to the right people at the right time. That is where a company like The Echo Nest comes in. It is a music intelligence company u... |
| 06.03.2014 | Music Startup Echo Nest, Born at MIT, Bought by Spotify | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s a big day for The Echo Nest. Like so many Boston-area tech startups, the company is becoming part of a much bigger team through an acquisition.
The Somerville, MA-based m... |
| 16.08.2013 | 4Shared Uses Unique Fingerprinting Tech to Scan For Pirated Files | As one of the largest file-sharing services online 4shared is closely watched by copyright holders who vigorously try to scrub pirated files from the site.
The file-hosting service offers a standard DMCA takedown procedure but recently deci... |
| 30.10.2012 | Rainmaker Group Raises $33.8M For Data Services That Optimizes Profits By Forecasting Supply And Demand | The Rainmaker Group, a company founded in 1998, has accepted its first investment — $33.8 million from Norwest Venture Partners that the Atlanta-based company will use to extend its profit and price optimization technology to different mark... |
| 04.09.2012 | Play It Again, Sam? Nokia Launches Free Music Streaming Service In U.S. | Nokia didn’t fare so well with its streamed mobile music service called Ovi Music Unlimited. Now it’s remixing that track and launching a free music streaming service in the U.S. as part of its redoubled strategy to go for more users in Ame... |
| 12.07.2012 | The Echo Nest rocks out to $17.3M from NVP to make music apps smarter | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Music-focused startup The Echo Nest has raised $1... |
| 12.07.2012 | Funding Daily: Another day, another million dollars | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Today in funding news, the numbers are all over t... |
| 12.07.2012 | The Echo Nest Closes $17.3M Financing | The Echo Nest, a Somerville, MA-based music intelligence platform, has closed a $17.3m financing.
The round was led by Norwest Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Matrix Partners, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Frin... |
| 12.07.2012 | Now Powering Music Intelligence For Spotify, VEVO & More, Echo Nest Nabs $17M To Go Big Abroad | There’s a good chance that you’ve never heard of The Echo Nest. As a self-professed music intelligence company, Echo Nest is at its best when running quietly behind the scenes, methodically mining, packaging, and classifying music data from... |
| 12.07.2012 | The Echo Nest Nabs $17M More for Smarter Music Tech | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The Boston-area startup financing train keeps rolling this week.
The Echo Nest, a Somerville, MA-based music tech company, has raised a $17.3 million Series C round led by new... |
| 12.07.2012 | Funding Daily: Another day, another million dollars | Today in funding news, the numbers are all over the place. The Mayfield Fund finds itself with $1 million for every day of the year, while pioneer community news site Digg sold for 500 times less than once dreamt. There are also whispers of... |
| 02.05.2012 | Miro 5 cataloging and organizing features make sweet music | The Participatory Culture Foundation has released the final build ofMiro 5.0, its cross-platform, open-source music and video player. Version 5 provides a new tool for looking up missing music information and artwork from the Internet, prov... |
| 12.04.2012 | The Echo Nest supercharges its music platform with data from JamBase, SongMeanings | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The Echo Nest is adding lyrics data and concert/t... |
| 09.03.2012 | The New VEVO: Music Video Giant Adds Personalization, Facebook Playlists & Continuous Play | VEVO launched officially to the world in December 2009, and in the same month became the most visited music site in the U.S. That was just over two years ago, and today VEVO has grown to be the second largest web video property behind YouTu... |
| 17.02.2012 | Music-loving hackers make the ultimate mashups between big data & sound | “Big data” is everywhere you look these days.
As digital information continues to expand exponentially, this affects everything — how much we pay for health insurance, how we predict the weather, how we play the stock market.
The music indu... |
| 15.02.2012 | MTV Takes The Beta Label Off Its Music Meter App For Finding New Artists | MTV is unveiling an update to its Music Meter mobile app today. This is version 2.0, and also the first version to abandon the “beta testing” label, suggesting that MTV has worked out any early kinks — and is ready to make money.
The app fi... |
| 14.02.2012 | How Developers Are Shaping the Future of Music | That the music industry has radically changed in the last decade is a serious understatement. Technology has altered everything from the creation of music to its distribution, upending retailers, studios and business models across the indus... |
| 10.01.2012 | Twitter gives developers new access to Verified Accounts | Twitter has just announced a new pilot program that will give developers access to the handles and metadata for Verified Accounts.
Verified Accounts are Twitter accounts held by persons of note — musicians, actors, celebrities and other pub... |
| 16.12.2011 | Echo Nest powers Spotify’s new radio app | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Music startup The Echo Nest revealed today that i... |
| 16.12.2011 | The Echo Nest To Power New Spotify Radio (Which Begins Rolling Out Today) | 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 announced that it was redesigning its radio experience from the ground up,... |
| 16.12.2011 | Echo Nest powers Spotify’s new radio app | Music startup The Echo Nest revealed today that its music intelligence platform is being used for Spotify’s new radio app.
Spotify announced its new Radio function last week. Spotify Radio will let users create unlimited stations, skip an u... |
| 09.12.2011 | Hands-On With the New Spotify Radio: Look Out, Pandora | Normally when a tech company launches a product or feature that’s billed as a potential “killer” of a popular incumbent, there’s cause to be skeptical. Quite often, that’s just unsubstantiated hype either on the part of the company itself o... |
| 03.11.2011 | EMI Presses Play On Digital Innovation; Opens Its Catalog To App Developers | The music industry industry has taken some questionable stances on digital technology over the years. To call it resistant to change probably wouldn’t be stepping too far out of line. That’s why, as music fans, we love to hear about cases i... |
| 20.10.2011 | SoundCloud and Last.fm APIs Mashed Up into New Music Discovery App | A music discovery app for iOS that went live recently shows just what’s possible when digital music services open up their libraries and functionality via powerful APIs. Twist Radio takes the music recommendation engine from Last.fm and use... |
| 08.09.2011 | Groovebug Aims to be Flipboard For Music – It’s a Start… | A new iPad app called Groovebug just launched. It uses your iTunes music collection to create “an iPad magazine tailored to your musical tastes.” The familiarities to Flipboard seem a little forced. You do use the swiping motion to go from ... |
| 08.09.2011 | TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon Details! | The fourth annual TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon is just around the corner! Spend an intense 24 hours hacking, learning and presenting with the Bay Area’s finest developers.On Sunday morning, you’ll have a chance to demo your hack in front of... |
| 12.08.2011 | No Facebook Music Yet? No Problem! Meet The Wonderful +Music Chrome Extension | Facebook is working with a number of partners to prepare for the launch of a music service – possibly called ‘Vibes’ – inside the astoundingly popular social networking site. While you wait, I advise you to check out the amazing +Music exte... |
| 02.05.2011 | Music Nerds Gain New Powers With Rdio & Echonest API Partnership | This morning, subscription streaming music service Rdio announced a new partnership with music analytics and recommendation service Echo Nest. The partnership will allow developers to add music recommendations from Echo Nest to their apps a... |
| 08.03.2011 | Million-song dataset: take it, it’s free | reader comments 40 with 28 posters participating
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| 05.10.2010 | Music startup Echo Nest raises $7M to power the next Pandora | The Echo Nest, a startup building a massive database of musical artists and songs, just raised $7 million in a funding round led by Matrix Partners.
Matrix’s Antonio Rodriguez is joining the Echo Nest board. Asked to describe the Somerville... |
| 05.10.2010 | The Echo Nest Raises $7m in Venture Financing | The Echo Nest, a Somerville, MA-based music intelligence company that provides independent developers and media companies with a platform that reads and listen to music everywhere on the web, has raised $7m in venture financing.
The round w... |
| 05.10.2010 | The Echo Nest Raises $7 Million For Music Personalization Platform | The Echo Nest, a music intelligence startup, has raised $7 million in funding from Matrix Partners with Commonwealth Capital Ventures also participating in the round. This brings the startup’s total funding to over $9 million.
The Echo Nest... |
| 05.10.2010 | The Echo Nest Powers Up With $7 Million Series B Round, Out To Connect Independent Music App Developers with Commercial Partners | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The Echo Nest, a Somerville, MA-based music data service powering interactive music applications, announced today that it has closed a $7 million Series B investment, led by n... |
| 05.10.2010 | The Echo Nest raises $7M led by Matrix | The Echo Nest uses machine-music learning to index good music
Can a machine appreciate art? Two doctoral students at MIT think so, which is why they created The Echo Nest, a machine-learning platform that uses an algorithm that they call Th... |
| 30.10.2008 | Can The Echo Nest Stay Aloft in the Turbulent Music-Recommendation Industry? | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
As I walked through a windy, chilly Somerville on my way to visit music-discovery startup The Echo Nest yesterday, last weekend’s sudden shutdown at Matchmine weighed on my mi... |
| 10.09.2008 | Echo Nest Launches Musical Brain, Raises Capital | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Somerville, MA-based Echo Nest, a startup focused on Web-based software for music search, personalization, and interactivity, made its public debut Monday at the Demo Fall 08 ... |
| 27.03.2008 | First "Machine Listening" API Flies From The Echo Nest | “Machine Listening” is the idea that computers can be programmed to interpret audio signals the same way humans do. This means that they can tell when a song belongs to the blues genre rather than techno. And they can detect musical charact... |
| - | Resource for scientists studying music and the brain enlists wearables, online music libraries | The details of a PureTech project that will function as a hub for studies evaluating the impact of music on the brain were revealed at the South by Southwest Interactive conference this week. It offers a look at how clinical trials could be... |
