TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

London and Barcelona based audio-as-a-service SaaS startup Aflorithmic has scooped up $1.3 “Text in beautiful audio out” is its pithy slogan. Its business thesis is that demand for audio far outstrips the ability of studio-produced human-spoken voiceovers to deliver.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Amazon’s Luna streaming service has arrived, with the company rolling out early access to a limited set of customers today. We’ve spent a couple of hours streaming games with Luna. Here’s what it’s like so far and how it compares to other streaming services out there like Microsoft xCloud and Google Stadia.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Interactive voice advertising startup Instreamatic , which can insert interactive voice ads into an audio stream, has raised $6.1 SF-HQ’d Instreamatic lets brands that advertise through streaming music apps and podcasts (for instance) have interactive voice-based dialogues with consumers. Voice assistant usage is booming.

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The Verge

JANUARY 8, 2021

Amazon’s Echo Studio speaker, which supports Sony’s 360 Reality Audio format. Sony has announced an expansion of its 360 Reality Audio platform , bringing the 360-degree music format to more devices and media as well as offering new creation tools. Now, Sony is expanding the audio tech into video.

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The Verge

AUGUST 30, 2021

Today, Apple announced that it has acquired Primephonic , a service that specializes in streaming the classical genre, and will incorporate the app’s functionality and playlists into Apple Music. Effective immediately, Primephonic is no longer accepting new customers, and the service as it exists today will shut down on September 7th.

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The Verge

APRIL 13, 2021

There is a wealth of streaming music services now available to anyone who wants to listen and experiment. We asked the staff of The Verge to tell us about their favorite music streaming services. It has been one of my go-to audio sources ever since. Some offer both free and paid subscription versions. Dieter Bohn.

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The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2021

Netflix is beginning to roll out support for Apple’s spatial audio feature on iPhone and iPad, the streaming giant said to 9to5Mac on Wednesday. If you want to give spatial audio a shot and don’t have it on Netflix yet, you can try it out on other services like Apple TV Plus, Disney Plus, or HBO Max.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Clubhouse has confirmed one of its users was able to siphon off audio feeds from the invitation-only app and make them accessible from a third-party website, raising security concerns about the fledgling service. Although Clubhouse is blocked in China , users are reportedly still able to access the service via VPNs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Podimo , the Copenhagen-founded subscription service for short form audio stories and podcasts, has raised an additional €11.2 Founded in 2019, Podimo is a podcast and short-form audio platform which offers personalized recommendations to listeners, while offering creators a share of revenue via premium subscriptions.

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The Verge

JANUARY 8, 2021

Earlier today, Sony announced that it would be releasing two new speakers compatible with 360 Reality Audio, its spatial audio technology that replicates the feel of live music by placing different sounds and vocals in a virtual sphere around you. It’s also certified for High-Resolution Audio. Sony’s SRS-RA5000 speaker.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 7, 2021

No matter how you curate this event, one aspect you should include is live streaming. . Live streaming is where an event streams live video feeds so that viewers can see what’s going on. Live streaming is one of the best ways to connect with virtual attendees but pulling it off can be a little complicated. .

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

Getting the most from your 4K HDR TV doesn’t cost much Buying a capable streaming player for your TV is easier and cheaper in 2020 than it’s ever been. With universal search that spans all of the big services, streaming players make it easy to find something to watch when you finally make it to the couch after a long day.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

BoxCast , a Cleveland-based company aiming to make it easy to live stream any event, has raised $20 million in Series A funding. Co-founder and CEO Gordon Daily said that when the company first launched in 2013, “streaming wasn’t something that everyone understood,” and you needed professional help to live stream anything.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2021

The new iMac, iPad Pro, and Apple TV 4K are all set to start shipping to early preorder customers on or around May 21st, but now it seems there could be two surprise announcements: a hi-fi streaming tier of Apple Music, and maybe even AirPods 3. Lossless audio files will use significantly more space on your device.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 18, 2022

Lossless music is now easy to access thanks to support from major streaming services, and a quality headphone DAC/amp is one of the best ways to hear it.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Whether you're a remote worker hopping on video calls, a content creator who needs crisp footage or a gamer looking to upgrade your streaming setup, the right webcam can make all the difference. Not to mention most video conferencing services like Zoom, Google Meet and Skype dont even support 4K video.

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2021

He leaves Google after nearly 15 years at the company, where he was most recently the engineering lead for Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service and led the team that made the Stadia iOS web app. Uberti’s title will be head of streaming technology, a Clubhouse spokesperson told The Verge.

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Digital Trends

MAY 24, 2022

Waze has finally added Apple Music to its audio player, enabling easy access to the streaming service's content from within the Waze app.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The new Nest Audio sits between the Nest Mini and Home Max in price, size, and output. Despite that lower price, the Nest Audio is an improvement over the Google Home in nearly every way. Similarly, Sonos is now in the smart speaker game , bringing its rock-solid wireless streaming and class-leading audio quality to the table.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Stream , which lets developers build chat and activity streams into apps and other services by way of a few lines of code, has raised $38 million, funding that it will be using to continue building out its existing business as well as to work on new features. Image Credits: Stream (opens in a new window).

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Engadget

MARCH 12, 2025

You can secure four months of the joint Disney+ and Hulu streaming subscription for just $3 a month. At a time when it feels like every streaming service, audio and video, is pushing their subscription costs ever-higher, it's a treat to get any amount of entertainment access for a discount.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 17, 2021

In February, Spotify announced its plans to launch a lossless audio tier called Spotify HiFi. Now, a newly discovered video suggests the launch could be soon.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2021

At launch, it’s a very hit or miss experience Late on Monday night, Apple flipped the switch on two new features for its Apple Music subscription service : immersive Dolby Atmos spatial audio and lossless-quality streaming. Eddy Cue is Apple’s senior vice president of services and the person who oversees Apple Music.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Microsoft is bringing back Twitch streaming integration directly into the Xbox dashboard. Twitch first appeared directly integrated into the Xbox One dashboard in 2014, using the original Snap interface to allow players to stream directly to the service.

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The Verge

AUGUST 25, 2020

If you’ve scrolled through Reddit’s app recently, you might have spotted a live stream of someone playing music, making art, or just talking to the camera. Those broadcasts come from Reddit’s own live-streaming service, the Reddit Public Access Network (RPAN) , which just celebrated its first anniversary last week.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Amazon is adding a large vault of music videos to its Amazon Music Unlimited service. But the selection seems on par with other services. As with YouTube Music, there’s a toggle on the now playing screen to switch between the music video and just the audio of whatever you’re currently listening to.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

Startup Adthos this week launched a platform that uses AI to generate scripts for audio ads — and even add voiceovers, sound effects and music. ” Adthos uses generative AI to completely automate audio ads by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch “The ones that don’t will be the ones losing jobs.”

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Engadget

MARCH 17, 2025

In our testing, the AirPods Max met Apple's promise of a 20-hour battery life with both ANC and spatial audio switched on. There's no support for high-res music streaming services either. We enjoyed the simple control system, which uses an Apple Watch-style rotating crown.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 29, 2021

The main goal was to make it compatible with Spotify, which meant it needed Wi-Fi to talk to the service. The modder also added Bluetooth audio so the device can stream to a wireless. YouTuber Guy Dupont detailed the work performed on this 2004 iPod Classic to spruce it up.

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Engadget

MARCH 17, 2025

You can secure four months of the joint Disney+ and Hulu streaming subscription for just $3 a month. At a time when it feels like every streaming service, audio and video, is pushing their subscription costs ever-higher, it's a treat to get any amount of entertainment access for a discount.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A search engine for blog posts, this service illuminates the most popluar blog topics by day, week and month. This tool turns your smartphone or desktop computer into an audio recorder that allows you to easily share audio messages and podasts with your supporters. BlogPulse :: blogpulse.com. BrainyQuote :: brainyquote.com.

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2021

Nielsen, the nearly century-old research firm which produces the eponymous gold standard for television ratings, is taking a more serious look into how much Americans are streaming. The result of its labors: an ominously named rating system it calls The Gauge. We’ve reached out to Nielsen for additional details.).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Mark Cuban-backed streaming app Fireside , which today offers podcasters and other creators a way to host interactive, live shows with audience engagement, will soon expand to the TV’s big screen. Shows on Fireside’s platform could be streamed live to its app, recorded, saved, or even simulcast to other social networks.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Per Crunchbase , the 2019 founded audio startup’s earlier seed and pre-seed investors were Mangrove Capital Partners and Redalpine. Finding the signal in the noice of social audio is turning out to be the real challenge. “We raised $3M in late 2020. You can also slow playback speed to 0.75x.).

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The Verge

JUNE 7, 2021

Apple appears to have planned a dedicated event on Apple Music’s upcoming spatial audio feature for later today. According to a video that MacRumors says was uploaded to Apple Music as a teaser — it’s since been removed — Apple will broadcast a special event called “Introducing Spatial Audio.”

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The Verge

JANUARY 20, 2022

Market share for the world’s largest music streaming services. Spotify was the largest music streaming service in the world as of the second quarter of 2021 with a market share of 31 percent, with Apple Music in second place at 15 percent, and Amazon Music and Tencent Music each tied at third with 13 percent apiece.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Couple this with the power of live streaming and your guests may socialize with each other while they eat from the comfort of their own home. If you want to make it a hybrid event, simply have a group of folks come to an in-person dinner on location while having meals delivered to a few others watch the virtual version over a live stream.

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