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whirlycott1 on March 6, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Echo Nest Joins Spotify

It's a venture funded business. There are only three outcomes: sell, go public or crash. What were you expecting?

They also said their API will stay up:

http://blog.echonest.com/post/78749300941/the-echo-nest-join...

untog on March 6, 2014 [–]

...sell to someone that isn't Spotify?

JangoSteve on March 6, 2014 | [–]

Any company that has both the economic ability and incentive to acquire The Echo Nest would have the same potential to be one-sided in their acquisition as Spotify.

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