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Spotify founder Daniel Ek to step down as CEO

Tuesday, September 30, 2025 2:02 pmTuesday, September 30, 20251 Comment

Spotify’s founder-CEO Daniel Ek will transition to executive chairman in January, the Swedish streaming giant announced Tuesday, as it…

Spotify CEO urges EU to punish Apple for flouting Digital Markets Act

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 12:15 pmWednesday, February 26, 20251 Comment

Daniel Ek, the CEO of Spotify, has criticized Apple for disregarding the European Union’s regulations on major tech companies. He has called…

EU antitrust regulators said ready with Apple charges on Spotify complaint

Thursday, March 4, 2021 12:37 pmThursday, March 4, 20212 Comments

EU antitrust regulators are finalizing a charge sheet against Apple triggered by a complaint by Swedish music streaming service Spotify …

Analyst: Apple Music growing 2.5 times faster than Spotify

Friday, September 4, 2020 1:13 pm1 Comment

Apple’s five-year-old Apple Music, already No.1 in America, the No.1 music market, is gaining on fifteen-year-old Spotify which…

Behind-the-scenes battle between Apple and Spotify revealed

Monday, August 3, 2020 3:36 pm9 Comments

The behind-the-scenes battle between Apple and Spotify was revealed last Wednesday when Apple CEO Tim Cook, as well as the heads of Amazon, Facebook…

Apple: We collect fees on less than 1% of Spotify users

Tuesday, June 25, 2019 8:32 am8 Comments

Music streaming service Spotify Technology SA pays Apple Inc a 15% fee on about 680,000 of its 100 million premium customers…

Why I switched from Spotify to Apple Music

Friday, May 10, 2019 4:43 pm3 Comments

I strongly suspect this is a scheme to make the music industry happy, but it’s user-hostile..

Apple Music overtakes Spotify in paid U.S. subscribers

Friday, April 5, 2019 1:23 pmFriday, April 5, 20192 Comments

Apple Music has surpassed Spotify Technology SA in paid U.S. subscriptions…

Apple: Spotify wants all the benefits of a free app without being free

Friday, March 15, 2019 4:14 pmMonday, March 18, 20193 Comments

Apple Inc on Thursday responded to Spotify Technology SA’s complaint with EU antitrust regulators…

Spotify teams with Samsung in face of growing Apple Music threat

Friday, August 10, 2018 8:20 amFriday, August 10, 20182 Comments

Spotify Technology SA has a new ally in its competition with Apple Inc….

Why Apple Music surpassed Spotify in the U.S.

Thursday, July 12, 2018 10:46 amThursday, July 12, 20188 Comments

Apple Music may still be tens of millions of paid subscribers behind Spotify in the global market…

Radiohead blackball Spotify as new album hits Apple Music

Monday, May 9, 2016 9:56 amMonday, May 9, 20161 Comment

Thom Yorke just got his own back on Spotify. The Radiohead star has famously had some strong words to say about the Swedish streaming service…

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