Dhingana, a startup with a free service for streaming Indian and Bollywood music, has raised $7 million in Series B funding.
The company’s catalog includes 500,000 songs in 35 languages, which it makes available on its website and through smartphone apps. Dhingana says it has built an audience of 15 million monthly active visitors, making it the most popular service of its kind.
Gaana, one of India’s top music streaming services, just launched its app, which is now available on four platforms (iOS, Android, BlackBerry and J2ME for Samsung and Nokia feature phones) to take advantage of India’s vast but fragmented mobile market.
The service, operated by Times Internet, allows listeners to browse through thousands of playlists, save their favorites, and launch r
Who doesn’t love music? If you aren’t a music lover, You ain’t an Human. Recently Google established Google Music in India and has reached considerable popularity in a short time. However, it has been criticized to have been lacking a few features which other Popular Indian Music websites offer. Here’s a round up of the Top 5 music websites:
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Besides movies and music, Indian women also loved watching TV soaps, cute/funny videos, sports, home and lifestyle, news, celeb gossip and amazing/whacky videos on their mobile.
Almost one-third of Facebook’s advertising revenue is now coming from mobile platforms, according to the company’s latest earnings release. About $375 million of Facebook’s $1.25 billion in advertising revenue came from products like the company’s new mobile app install ads.
Music streaming may not be making much money right now, but that’s not stopping music streaming hopefuls from trying. The latest development comes from Deezer, which is announcing a series of new services based around its APIs to drive more users to its service.
TuneUp, the iTunes plug-in that improves your music library by fixing mislabeled songs, adding missing cover art, and the like, is introducing a fun new feature today — the ability to view the lyrics of whatever song you’re playing.
It’s not like you couldn’t find the lyrics on your own, but this should be pretty convenient, especially if you’re already using TuneUp.
Facebook announced its third quarter 2012 earnings today, and are participating in the customary phone call to discuss what has taken place over the past few months.
“We should be able to reach more people on mobile than on desktop” Zuckerberg stated during the call.
Zuckerberg discussed the opportunity of engaging and monetizing mobile users more and more, and the company released som
The music streaming service Spotify has released a version dedicated to Amazon’s Kindle Fire. Spotify is a streaming music service that gives you access to millions of songs and will be welcomed to the popular 7-inch tablet. You can pay a fee of $9.99 to access its premium features such as being able to listen to music with out the need of an internet connection.