Pursuits
Apple, Spotify Face New Rival in Race for Exclusive Music
- WeTransfer, with 85 million users, introduces Web music player
- Dutch DropBox competitor is using songs to fuel U.S. growth
Prince performs onstage at The Hollywood Palladium on March 8, 2014 in Los Angeles, California.
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Apple Inc., Spotify Ltd. and Jay-Z have some new competition in the race for exclusive songs and music videos: the Dutch file-sharing service WeTransfer.
WeTransfer, which serves 85 million users each month, will announce plans for a new music player at an event in Los Angeles on Wednesday, according to Maarten Kadiks, a marketing executive at the company. Prince, Big Grams and Disclosure have already released songs and videos on WeTransfer, and the company hopes to land more exclusives with the new feature.