## About To Lead Huge Spotify Funding

European streaming music startup Spotify is in the process of closing a very large financing, say multiple sources. DST, the venture firm that has backed Facebook, Groupon and Zynga, is said to be leading the deal, which values Spotify.

## Is The First Official Chrome OS Device A Monitor Or All-In-One PC? Nope.

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2011

AudioBoo, the social sound sharing startup, has developed an iPhone framework that gives drag and drop audio recording functionality to any iPhone app. That means any app developer can now add Audioboo recording functionality to their app, thus adding a new kind of social functionality.

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But that’s probably not what will immediately kick off a new wave of users. Audioboo plans to officially launch this with a number of high profile media partners “in a couple of weeks” including the BBC, ABC Australia, Guardian, Aljazeera, Sky News and more all trialling the beta versions of the new platform that works with the plugin. A revamp of the Android version of the app will bring it up to par with the iPhone and have a similar plugin environment.

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This is a great tool for identifying deals with higher average scores or for deciding between two potential deals. We’ve prepared an example of such a spreadsheet. But that’s probably not what will immediately kick off a new wave of users. Audioboo plans to officially launch this with a number of high profile media partners “in a couple of weeks” including the BBC, ABC Australia, Guardian, Aljadentifying deals with hizeera, Sky News and more all trialling the beta versions of the new platform th A revamp of the Android version of the app will bring it up to par with the iPhone and have a similar plugin environment. Audoboo CEO and founder Mark Rock believes this will “fundamentally change the nature of how audio is captured and then distributed on the Internet.” Clearly this will give audioboo a lot of potential for scale compared to competitors like SoundCloud and Cinch who continue to rely on user-generated growth.

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But that’s probably not what will immediately kick off a new wave of users. Audioboo plans to officially launch this with a number of high profile media partneraClearly this will give audioboo a lot of potential for scale compared to competitors like SoundCloud and Cinch who continue to rely on user-generated growth.

SoundCloud recently entered into the spoken word space, technically the “patch” of Audioboo. Audioboo was technically the first in 2009 to make voice “social” but it’s been joined by others like Broadcastr, Cinch and also iPadio, though iPadio is more enterprise focused. However, Soundcloud’s music focus has given it an impressive range of features in manipulating sound, while Audioboo has concentrated on dealing with broadcasters and media martners.s “in a couple of weeks” including the BBC, ABC Australia, Guardian, Aljazeera, Sky News and more all trialling the beta versions of the new platform that works with the plugin. A revamp of the Android version of the app will bring it up to par with the iPhone and have a similar plugin.

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