Napster founder Sean Parker explains how Spotify is accomplishing what Napster never could.
It's summer, and months after you made that vow to finally get fit, healthy and bikini-ready, you're actually going at it, sweating it up at the gym or jogging around your 'hood before work.
Tech expert Marc Saltzman and CNN's Fredricka Whitfield discuss the top four gadgets for family road trips.
For Camille Kim, music is life.
As the stock market opened Friday with a ring of the bell by Mark Zuckerberg, all eyes were on Facebook -- the social media Megalodon he nursed from a dorm-room project to one of Wall Street's hottest prospects ever.
Spotify is letting bloggers and website managers embed songs from its vast music library for free.
When Procter & Gamble shut down some access to the Internet this week, it wasn't to keep employees from messing around on Facebook or crafting personal e-mails on company time.
Spring breaks are starting up across the country, which means it's the beginning of road trip season.
Sharing is a wonderful thing -- when executed correctly. It's super fun to share hugs (when they are wanted, it's important to note), delicious desserts and interesting, thought-provoking books but not so fun to share colds, STDs and/or upsetting, possibly dangerous secrets.
One of the biggest mistakes an investor can make is getting all worked up about the share price of a stock.
During one's bustling life there are a collection of moments -- fragments out of time -- that afford one a sense of slow-down reflection. A kind of reprieve from the mania that is living.
Maybe Justin Timberlake and friends weren't so crazy after all.
The online realm is replete with a vast cornucopia of information, just waiting to provide the hungry masses with nourishing nuggets of knowledge -- or (as in "The Hunger Games") scary-ass weapons of mass destruction.
I watched the Golden Globes on Sunday night. Live. On TV.
Google search is about to get way more personal.
The times they are a-changin'. For the first time in history, digital music sales topped the physical sale of music.
Daniel Ek founded the music-streaming service Spotify in his native Sweden in 2006 and launched it to the public two years later. The service now has more than 10 million users in 12 countries.
On this week's Tech Check podcast, Doug Gross, John Sutter and Stephanie Goldberg take a look at the digital rush of mass consumption that is "Cyber Monday."
Napster, the music-industry scourge that blazed a trail that led to modern digital music services, is about to head off into its final good night.
Streaming music service Spotify wants to be more than a music app: It's aiming to be a platform for everything you would ever want to read, see, do or share around the music that fills your days.
John Scalzi is the author of Old Man's War and other science fiction novels. He runs a blog, Whatever, where this commentary originally appeared.
Go install streaming music app Spotify on Facebook. Now brace yourself for a flood of comments and quips about your musical tastes -- including the track you fired up just seconds ago.
Facebook's first president and the co-founder of Napster, Sean Parker, discusses his next move. CNN's Dan Simon reports.
At 31, Sean Parker has a lot more going for him than Justin Timberlake.
When Spotify debuted in the U.S. two months ago, the streaming-music service was starkly different from its competitors.
First, some perspective: Even after yesterday's big Facebook f8 hullabaloo, people will still listen to and discover music without Facebook, as hard as that might be to believe right now, given all the attention paid to the social network's shift into media sharing, which suddenly made Twitter look like the stripped-down communications protocol it has always been.
A couple years ago, a Microsoft researcher named Gordon Bell embarked on a personal experiment: He would wear a video camera around his neck all the time and keep this "life recorder" always turned on, so it would record everything he did.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announces the new Timeline feature at the f8 developers conference.
Facebook wants to hear your life story.
As Facebook edges toward the billion-users mark, an entire ecosystem that has grown up in its wake -- including developers, partners, advertisers and rivals -- is waiting to hear what's next. They'll get answers Thursday at f8, Facebook's annual developer conference.
Facebook plans to roll out a major redesign of user profiles at its f8 developer conference this week, Mashable has learned.
Turntable.fm, one of the tech scene's most-buzzed about startups, has opened its online music venue to the public.
Millions of prayers have just been answered. Spotify has been granted a Pandora-esque web radio interface called Echofi. But not by the company itself -- it's been built by coder Andy Smith, who's also the brains behind Spotibot.
There are no rules to naming a startup. And most entrepreneurs do assume that the name they choose will change before their businesses really start to gain momentum.
Facebook intends to launch its long-rumored music service next month with Spotify, MOG and Rdio as three of the company's launch partners, Mashable has learned.
New Yorker Marsha Sharpe, 31, travels constantly for her corporate music business SongDivision -- logging trips to Turkey, South Africa and across America. But she's no longer flying business class. "Economy has become the new black," says Sharpe.
If last week's volatile stock market was too much to bear, maybe it's time to start trading your friends, and strangers, based on their Facebook updates and how much they tweet.
HTC is making a $300 million bet that people want cell phones capable of producing high-quality audio. But will it pay off?
This statement is going to infuriate the anti-nostalgic: I think I might be a '90s revivalist. Consider the past few weeks' activity.
Ever since online music service Spotify launched in the United States last month, it has caused about as much confusion as it has excitement.
Would you rather buy or rent your music? With 15 million songs, Spotify's digital music service could rival iTunes.
Spotify founder Daniel Ek said Thursday he has been "overwhelmed" by the response to the U.S. debut of his music-streaming service and hopes to attract 50 million users stateside within a year.
On this week's Tech Check podcast, CNN's tech team discusses the hot European music service Spotify, which swam across the pond to the United States this week. Get our tips for using this service, which is available for free only by invitation for now but will launch to the broader public in coming weeks.
Spotify launches the much-hyped U.S. version of its music-streaming service after years of delays and negotiations.
The hottest music venue in Europe opened its doors on Thursday morning to a select group in the United States.
Ken Parks, Chief Content Officer for Spotify on the U.S. launch for Europe's most popular music streaming service.
It's hard to escape buzz about Spotify this week -- especially since Britney Spears and others are "so excited" about it.
Google's social network, Google+, is late. Facebook has a big lead, having ousted MySpace, which in turn deposed Friendster, the site that started us all on this path towards recreating our social fabric as a network of connected personal nodes.
Popular European music sharing service Spotify is coming to the United States, the company confirmed Wednesday.
Marco Arment's salesmanship could use some work.
With MTV now focused less on music and more on hard-partying Italian-Americans from New Jersey beaches, Sony sees an opportunity to bring music back into the living room.
Spotify, a music streaming service that's making waves in Europe, continues to face hurdles with its oft-delayed U.S. launch.
The details of Google's long-rumored music service are starting to leak out, setting the scene for the launch of a cloud-based storage locker that users could keep their music in and stream it from anywhere.
Just as every smart phone claiming to be an "iPhone killer" has failed to dethrone Apple's iPhone, every so-called "iTunes killer" has so far fallen short of expectations.
Lawmakers have come to a decision in Sweden's landmark copyright case, finding the four men behind one of the world's most popular file-sharing sites, The Pirate Bay guilty of collaborating to violate copyright law and jailing them for a year.
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