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Spotify was founded in 2006 in Stockholm, Sweden, [ 16] by Daniel Ek, former CTO of Stardoll, and Martin Lorentzon, co-founder of Tradedoubler. [ 17][ 18] According to Ek, the company's title was initially misheard from a name shouted by Lorentzon. Later they conceived a portmanteau of "spot" and "identify".
t. e. Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc.) is a technology company that has acquired 91 other companies, including WhatsApp. The WhatsApp acquisition closed at a steep $16 billion; more than $40 per user of the platform. Meta also purchased the defunct company ConnectU in a court settlement and acquired intellectual property formerly held ...
Entrepreneur. Known for. Co-founder of Tradedoubler and Spotify. Board member of. Spotify. Sven Hans Martin Lorentzon ( pronounced [ˈmǎʈːɪn ˈlôːrɛnˌsɔn]; born 1 April 1969) is a Swedish entrepreneur and co-founder of Tradedoubler and Spotify. [1] From 2013 to 2018 he was on the board of Telia Company. Since April 2019, he has been an ...
Another popular online guessing game has been purchased by a major media company. Spotify has bought Heardle, the game where users guess the name of a song after hearing a brief moment of the song ...
Sean Parker (born December 3, 1979) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist, most notable for co-founding the file-sharing computer service Napster, and was the first president of the social networking website Facebook. He also co-founded Plaxo, Causes, Airtime.com, and Brigade, an online platform for civic engagement.
Facebook also announces Facebook Creative Labs, an intra-company effort to have separate teams working on separate mobile apps that specialize in different facets related to the Facebook experience, rather than trying to make changes to Facebook's main web version, mobile version, or its iOS and Android apps, and says that Facebook Paper is the ...
Shopify Inc. Shopify Inc., stylized as shopify, is a Canadian multinational e-commerce company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario. Shopify is the name of its proprietary e-commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale systems. [3] The platform offers online retailers a suite of services including; payments, marketing, shipping and ...
parcast .com. Parcast is a digital media firm and podcast network, that specialized in producing both scripted podcasts as well as audio dramas. It was founded in 2016 by podcaster Max Cutler and his father Ron Cutler in Los Angeles California. [ 1] In 2019, it was acquired by Sweden -based media firm and streaming service provider Spotify. [ 2]