keyBY ETHAN SMITH AND SPENCER E. ANTE
Spotify AB will begin offering Facebook-style apps that add various features and functions to its popular online-music service, a move that could differentiate the Swedish company amid growing competition from Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc.
Wednesday’s announcement at a press conference in New York included presentations of apps from Rolling Stone magazine, CBS Corp.’s music-recommendation service Last.fm and Songkick, which helps inform users about coming concerts by artists they like.
Since Stockholm-based Spotify is opening its app platform to any developer, much as Apple does for its iPhone app store, more functions are likely to arrive soon.
Though …
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