Google does streaming radio: start a service anti-Spotify - The Republic

The web giant aims to expand Android and Chrome through an expanded focus on entertainment services. A a booming market, now the domain of Cupertino, Spotify and Pandora. The Os Mobile at 900 million activations. Also presented a customized S4

Big G shows his new arsenal of ideas, applications and products. And the Google I / O 2013, the World Conference for developers, opens in grand style at the Moscone Center in San Franscisco. There are many innovations that Big G has in Serbia for users of its services and Android. One is musical: Mountain View is launched in the music streaming services and aims to directly challenge the giants of the industry, or Spotify and Pandora. And then partic9lare attention on games Play Games with the service, response to Apple’s Game Center, through which users can interact Android playing with other users and save your performance to the cloud.

And in the wake of I / O, Google the title of advances in pre-market by 1%. Yesterday he had earned as closing at $ 887.10, as investors have not shown themselves concerned by the announcement made by CEO Larry Page: co-founder has a vocal cord paralysis to the left and the right has a limited movement. But can “work well”, according to the statement. And the numbers are staggering: “Android and ‘now at 900 million activations, Google Play has 48 billion app installed, of which 2.5 billion installed last month alone,” so Sundar Pichai, senior vice president and Chrome Google apps, opened the developer conference in San Francisco, Mountain View. “Android

- He says – it started as an open standard in the mobile industry and today is the world’s most popular mobile system. “Into course, music is a vector that Google intends to use to bring users to Android, the mobile operating system for smartphones and tablets. A ma rket that dominates 75% of that of smartphones.’s new offering is called Big G Google Play All Access and combines the music catalog of the company with the selections of the user, a service for subscribers that “work like a personalized radio station,” said Chris Yergo, director of the engineers of Android. Even for Mountain View numbers remain attractive Spotify and Pandora, the first has 20 million members, of which 6 pay plans premium subscription, the second is a web radio very well established with 200 million users, but almost all active supply free of charge. shortly, in the face of popular music webcast should get even Apple, which in fact has already an ecosystem ready to provide wide contents in this mode. For All Access , Google reached an agreement for licensing the tracks Universal, Sony and Warner, the same labels with which Apple is negotiating in terms of royalty for its iRadio.

A special S4 . I / O 2013 Google brings to the stage a special version of the Galaxy S4, top of the range smartphone from Samsung. E ‘the Galaxy S4 Google Experience: has the ability to be updated directly from Mountain View and supports the latest Android versions like any model Nexus. Play Store will be available in June to $ 694.