28 Jun 2013

Spotify Prepares To Take On Apple and Microsoft

As we heard recently, Mayor Bloomberg is coming in at full force to beef up the city and make it known as Silicon Alley. New York City has never been known for their tech environment, but that is about to change. Speaking at Spotify this morning, Mayor Bloomberg announced that the music application service plans to hire 130 engineers to join their team by 2014.

“Spotify’s decision to expand and grow here in New York City along with its plan to hire 130 engineers underscores the reasons why we’ve made such a strong push to increase the ability for students to study science, technology, engineering and mathematics,” said Bloomberg in a release.

Attempting to get into the music game, Microsoft is developing Xbox Music’s web client and Apple is doing the same with iTunes Radio. Will it be enough?

It will be interesting come fall to see who will come out on top.

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