In 2003, I was visiting some business colleagues in the Netherlands when I heard of a new technology with a funny name: Skype. It was like a telephone, but you plugged it into your laptop and you could call other people that had the same software. I was

Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Billionaire Philip Falcone’s effort to build a national wireless network was rejected by U.S. regulators, leaving him limited options to salvage value from his LightSquared Inc. assets and dealing a blow to efforts to increase indu

Rdio 2.0 for Android has been released today. It brings an all new user interface – one that looks a ton better than the initial release – and has gotten full support for Android 4.0. They’ve also added a ton of new features including profiles, top chart

Rdio is one of the most popular music streaming services stateside along with apps like Spotify and Pandora, but up until now it lacked the fine polish of its Android app to really make the experience top notch. Now, this changes with the overhauled vers

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Rdio (www.rdio.com), the digital music service started by the creators of Skype, today announced the availability of a completely redesigned Rdio for Android app, now available as a free download from Android M

The Australian radio industry is enjoying an international invasion of digital music streaming upstarts, with the launch of Omnifone backed Rara.com and the music project from the Skype founding crew, Rdio. As revealed by El Reg in November, a slew of di

STREAM ALL THE MUSIC ON EARTH WIRELESSLY IN EVERY ROOM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sonos Now Streaming Rdio in New Zealand And Australia Napier, NEW ZEALAND January 20, 2012 Sonos, Inc. , the leading developer of wireless music systems for the home, to

Rdio Launches Innovative Social Music Streaming Service in New Zealand Free seven-day trial available, offering access to over 12 million songs SYDNEY, 20 January, 2012 – Dream of having access to any music you want, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, wh

Rdio is inching its way up to join the digital music mammoths that dominate the online and mobile streaming world — Grooveshark, Pandora, Spotify and Sony’s Music Service — not only in the U.S. , but internationally. Music lovers in Germany can now listen

Skype's founder Janus Friis has launched the music service Rdio in Germany, newspaper Handelsblatt reported. The new service provides access to an online catalogue of over 12 million songs, Friis said in Berlin. Rdio is available free of charge during a

Rdio, the streaming music service started by Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, is arriving in its fourth market today: Germany. Already available in the U.S. , Canada and Brazil, the company says it will be offering a 7-day free trial to th

Atomico, the venture capital firm founded by Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, has invested 350,000 euros in Denmark-based Ge.tt, which offers an eponymous Web-based file sharing service. Ge.tt is simple, clean, and useful. Like many file-

Niklas Zennstrom’s new startup FreedomPop aims to disrupt the wireless industry with free service and Internet technology similar to what his Skype Technologies SA brought to traditional phone service, according to two people familiar with the matter. F