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SPOTIFY HAS DEALT a major blow to most of the major radio apps by snapping up the company that powers their music recommendations.
The Echo Nest, which is based in Boston, Massachusetts, built the service responsible for recommending and suggesting music in radio apps such as Spotify, Rdio, Twitter Music, Vevo, Xbox Music and many others for the last few years.
Now it will be dedicating all of its time on developing Spotify’s music discovery engine after the music streaming service acquired the company for an undisclosed fee.
In its announcement, it said:
This deal will allow Spotify to leverage The Echo Nest’s in depth musical understanding and tools for curation to drive music discovery for millions of users around the globe.The addition of The Echo Nest to Spotify will also strengthen Spotify’s ability to help brands and partners build amazing music experiences for their audiences.
Spotify says The Echo Nest will continue to remain free and open to all non-commercial developers, but not whether it will allow the same privileges to commercial competitors.
Either way, it’s a blow to its competitors as it gives Spotify a major advantage over their competitors, but Spotify won’t care as it will mean more relevant suggestions for its users further down the line.
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It was a petrol bomb but I think we’re missing the point here. How is the wee girl and has anyone been apprehended for this vicious act. ?
I think this story is about a device being thrown at a 4 yr old child….if your that desperate for detail or accuracy read a Tim Pat Coogin book
I just like to know the story and the real facts. A pipe bomb is far more deadlier than a petrol bomb. Is it too much to ask for the right information?
Pipe bomb or Petrol bomb? They are two different things!
Its sectarian so its a sect bomb sect bomb shane your sect bomb
Should be no bombs of any kind thrown by anybody. Wtf is going on there. When are decent people going to get the chance to have peace all year round and the opportunity to prosper side by side.
I can confirm that it was definitely a petrol bomb.
The Nationalist Short Strand enclave under attack once more
Its hardly the west bank anymore fella
Sometimes it takes forensics a bit of time to establish the true nature of the device..meanwhile the story is breaking so sometimes we have to expect some detail lacking/errors.
Funny the way the journal didnt report on the petrol bomb that was fired from Short Strand into Cluan place the other day. Biased media.
Cool, there we have it a Petrol bomb. Feel a whole lot better knowing :)
You’re mental David. Grow up. Have you any kids of your own. You don’t want anyone throwing any kind of bombs at your kids. And it wouldn’t make any difference if a child was blown up or burnt to death to grieving parents or siblings.
Will this crazy thing ever ends in NI?
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