Spotify

Quite a number of European tech startups are expanding globally including spotify, Rovio, hailo, fon, OANDA and others, following in the footsteps of Skype.

很多欧洲科技初创企业都在沿着Skype的足迹向全球扩张，包括Spotify、Rovio、Hailo、Fon、Oanda等等。

These include Spotify, an Anglo-Swedish music-streaming service with more than 10m registered users, and Vente Priv é e, a French clothing discounter with annual revenue of some$ 1 billion.

这包括盎格鲁—瑞士的一家音乐流媒体服务Spotify公司，其注册用户超过1000万；而法国服装折扣店Vente Privée每年的收入约$10亿美元。

Spotify CEO Daniel Eck was Mark Zuckerberg's first guest during the widely watched keynote.

会上，马克•扎克伯格发表了万众瞩目的主题演讲，Spotify的首席执行官丹尼尔•艾克成为他邀请上台的第一位贵客。

Nvidia wants to do for gaming what Spotify did for music.

英伟达打算像音乐界的Spotify一样，在游戏界掀起波澜。

The star's stance this time appears to be shifting: while she is unlikely to put the full album available on Spotify immediately, its first single "Hello" was made available to stream last week on the same day it went on sale.

阿黛尔这次的立场似乎有所转变：尽管她不太可能将全部专辑立即放上去，但该专辑首支单曲《你好》（Hello）在上周销售当天就被放到了Spotify上。

As a consumer, I find Spotify's service entirely satisfactory.

作为消费者，我认为Spotify的服务完全令人满意。

Spotify streams tracks free, interrupted by minimal advertising.

使用Spotify可以免费听音乐, 中途插播有小广告.

It was Spotify, not Rhapsody, at center stage last week at Facebook's f8 developer's conference in San Francisco.

上周，在旧金山召开的Facebook公司f8开发者大会上，占据了讲台中央是Spotify，而不是Rhapsody。

The track is on course to break the record for the largest number of downloads in a single week and has been streamed more than 47m times on Spotify.

该专辑即将打破单周下载量最多的纪录，它在Spotify上的播放超过4700万次。

Peter Kafka over at all things D thinks awesome music streaming service spotify could finally hit the States next week.

彼得•卡夫卡在科技网站All Things D撰文指出，出色的音乐流服务Spotify有可能于本周登陆美国市场。

How music streaming darling spotify got one tech writer thinking about ( and appreciating) Napster again.

·音乐流媒体宠儿Spotify让一位科技作者重新评估（并再次爱上）音乐流媒体服务Napster，详情如何？

Netflix instant and spotify subscribers are exposed to more content this way than if they paid for media a la carte.

通过这种方式，网飞Instant和Spotify的订户可以获得比点播式购买更多的内容。

Released in June, Apple Music is the company's attempt to carry its dominance of digital music through its iTunes store into the era of music streaming pioneered by Spotify and others.

苹果于6月推出苹果音乐，欲通过iTunes商店将其在数字音乐的主导地位延伸至由Spotify等企业所开创的音乐流媒体时代。

Both companies are planning services for$ 9.99 a month, the price point that has become the industry standard, putting them in direct competition with Spotify and Apple Music for listeners.

两家公司均计划以每月9.99美元——该价位已成为行业标准——的价格推出服务，这令它们要直接与Spotify和Apple Music争夺听众。

Mark Mulligan, a music industry analyst with Midia Research, said Adele was unlikely to take a similar approach because her audience was broader than the typical Spotify listener-which is typically younger-so the availability of her singles on the service will not dent full album sales or downloads.

MIDiA Research的音乐行业分析师马克穆里根（Mark Mulligan）表示，阿黛尔不太可能采取类似举措，因为她的听众比典型的Spotify听众（通常较为年轻）更广泛一些，因此她在该服务上的单曲不会影响整个专辑的销售或下载。

Fortunately, streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music still let you listen to songs the old-school way: by storing the music right on your device.

幸运的是，Spotify和Apple Music都允许你以传统方式收听音乐——把歌曲下载到设备里。

He added: "I feel like as musicians we need to fight the Spotify thing. I feel that in some ways what's happening in the mainstream is the last gasp of the old industry."

他补充道：“我认为作为音乐人，我们需要反抗Spotify这类东西。我觉得从某种程度上，主流世界发生的事情是旧音乐产业的垂死挣扎。”

The 16-track playlist released through Spotify on Thursday includes jams by Stevie Wonder, Beyonce, Usher and fun.

周四Spotify公布了庆典活动的16个节目表演名单，表演嘉宾包括史提夫·汪达，碧昂斯，亚瑟和Fun。

Whichever company comes out on top, he warns that Spotify will need to find a way to cut dramatically its costs as "the current model is not commercially sustainable."

他警告称，不管是哪家公司登顶，Spotify都需要设法大幅削减成本，因为“目前的模式在商业上是不可持续的”。

Mr Mulligan says it is entirely possible that Spotify will be able to capitalise on its first-mover advantage and reach 35m subscribers within five years, which would give it more than half the paid-for streaming market.

穆里根表示，Spotify完全有可能利用先发优势，在5年内获得3500万付费用户，占领超过一半的付费音乐流媒体市场。

Apple pays slightly higher rates than Spotify, which pays about 70 per cent of its revenue to music rights holders.

苹果支付的版税略高于Spotify，后者约70%的收入上交给音乐版权持有者。

He flips open his MacBook Air and logs on to a website, Spotify Analytics.

他麻利地打开自己的MacBook Air，登录一个名叫Spotify Analytics的网站。

Unlike Spotify, which lets customers listen free or pay monthly fees to eliminate ads, Apple's subscription feature will have no permanent free level.

Spotify为用户提供免费音乐服务，或每月收取一定的屏蔽广告的费用。但与Spotify不同，苹果的订阅服务没有永久免费的选择。

Taylor Swift, whose album 1989 was released last year, pulled her catalogue from Spotify when the streaming service refused to take her music from its free tier.

去年发行《1989》专辑的泰勒斯威夫特（Taylor Swift）从Spotify上撤掉了自己的曲目，原因是Spotify拒绝将其音乐撤出免费类别。

Thanks to constant connectivity and autonomous driving technology, Faraday Future's cars might be owned outright by consumers or rented in a way that Mr Sampson likened to a mobile subscription or a digital media app such as Spotify or Netflix.

由于稳定的联网以及自动驾驶技术，消费者也许可以立即拥有Faraday Future的汽车，或通过桑普森所说的手机订购方式，或是Spotify、Netflix等数字媒体应用来租赁该公司的汽车。

These include Spotify, an Anglo-Swedish music-streaming service with more than10m registered users, and Vente Priv é e, a French clothing discounter with annual revenue of some$ 1 billion.

这包括盎格鲁&瑞士的一家音乐流媒体服务Spotify公司，其注册用户超过1000万；而法国服装折扣店Vente Privée每年的收入约$10亿美元。

Almost three-quarters of the SKr990m ( ￡ 86m) made last year came from streaming. Launched in Stockholm in 2008, Spotify has a library of more than 20 million songs that people can choose from.

瑞典音乐产业去年收入9.9亿瑞典克朗（合8600万英镑），其中近四分之三来自流媒体服务。Spotify于2008年在斯德哥尔摩创办，如今拥有2000多万首歌曲供用户选择。

YouTube's free video site has grown into the world's biggest streaming music platform, attracting more listeners than Spotify and Apple Music combined.

YouTube的免费视频网站已成长为全球最大的流媒体音乐平台，吸引的听众人数超过了Spotify和Apple Music之和。

Q: Why did you choose Kanban for managing operations at Spotify?

Q：在Spotify你为什么选择看板方法进行运维管理？

In 2009, when the streaming-music service was storming Europe, spotify licensed echo nest technology for its playlist-building function.

2009年，正当这家流媒体服务公司风靡欧洲的时候，Spotify选择了Echo Nest的技术用于自己的播放列表功能，之后各种订单纷至沓来。