Rdio to cut ties with Echo Nest in light of Spotify acquisition

Tom Pakinkis

Streaming service Rdio will cut ties with The Echno Nest after the music intelligence company was acquired by rival Spotify last week.

Speaking to CNBC, Rdio CEO Anthony Bay said the company will stop using The Echo Nest as a source of data.

"As far as we are concerned, they were a good partner, but we have other good partners and we'll move on," he said. "We, probably like most people, have multiple sources of data that we use. So ...

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