Amazon and Google get into the (daily) mix

Apr 29, 2019

Amazon and Google get into the (daily) mix

In this file photo illustration taken on April 19, 2018 shows the logo of online streaming music service Spotify displayed on a tablet screen in Paris. LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP/Getty Images

Consumers were spending a lot last month, according to new government data. An African swine flu epidemic is affecting China's food supply. Plus, Spotify faces stiff competition as Amazon and Google enter the streaming music business.

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Spotify's free streaming model now faces competition from Google, Amazon

by Ben Bradford

Apr 29, 2019

Google and Amazon have both created new, free, ad-based tiers of their music services, cutting at Spotify's main profit model.

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