• Google Retiring Songza Website, App For Streaming Push

    Google has decided to retire the Songza brand in favor of swallowing it whole for its big push into streaming. The playlist curation service was acquired by Google in July 2014 and over a year and a half later on Jan, 31, 2016 Google will retire the website and app to officially become a piece of Google Play Music.
  • Lawsuit Against Google, Sony, Rdio, Beats Electronics and More May End Pre-1972 Music Streaming and Internet Radio

    Music streaming controversy has gotten uglier as a lawsuits have been filed against Google, Sony Entertainment, Rdio, Songza, Apple's Beats Electronics and more on behalf of the music group that owns the catalogues of the Flying Burrito Brothers, Hot Tuna and Purple Sage. The results of the collective legal push could result in thousands of songs written prior to 1972 disappearing from the internet.
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