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Google Will Acquire Spotify

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Re: Google Will Acquire Spotify

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It will be hard for Google to acquire Spotify, major music labels have a chunk of spotify pie and they won't be easily ready to let Google control what might be their future business model

Re: Google Will Acquire Spotify

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post #3

It will be hard for Google to acquire Spotify, major music labels have a chunk of spotify pie and they won't be easily ready to let Google control what might be their future business model

It's also fairly commonplace that the licenses between music services and music labels don't transfer if the music service is purchased by another company.

The question, then, is why would Google want to buy a company who's (arguably) most important assest was just made null and void?

Re: Google Will Acquire Spotify

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Spotify is an app you have to download, right? Google builds web apps. Why would they want this? The author didn't give any reasons that seemed very compelling to me.

Picasa is an app you have to download, Google Earth (Keyhole) too.