{"id":655976,"date":"2013-05-03T11:11:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T15:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=228197"},"modified":"2013-05-03T11:11:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T15:11:27","slug":"spotify-buys-music-discovery-app-tunigo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/655976","title":{"rendered":"Spotify Buys Music Discovery App Tunigo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unlike Twitter, Spotify isn’t looking to build an entire standalone music service – they already have that. But they are interested in discovery, like Twitter, and to that end the company has just acquired a Swedish music discovery app called Tunigo<\/a>. <\/p>\n

All Things D<\/a> reports the buy, which is for an undisclosed amount. Tunigo is a music discovery app that is available on iPhone, Android, and as a Spotify app. Tunigo is playlist-focused, and features hand-curated selections from the Tunigo team as well as ones from the Tunigo community. Playlists are arranged based on moods, events, activities, and more interesting ways. <\/p>\n

According to the report, all of Tunigo’s 20 or so employees will become part of Spotify’s team. The Tunigo apps should keep working as usual. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe acquisition fits into our overall strategy around music discovery, basically helping our users make sense of over 20 million tracks,\u201d a Spotify spokesman told GigaOm<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We mentioned Twitter because the social networking site just recently unveiled their own music discovery service, Twitter Music<\/a>. That product came out of the acquisition of We Are Hunted, another music discovery app. It’s interesting that Spotify would make this purchase just a couple weeks after Twitter launched their new standalone service, don’t you think?<\/p>\n

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Unlike Twitter, Spotify isn’t looking to build an entire standalone music service – they already have that. But they are interested in discovery, like Twitter, and to that end the company has just acquired a Swedish music discovery app called Tunigo. All Things D reports the buy, which is for an undisclosed amount. Tunigo is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}