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When King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard quit Spotify, an AI rip-off turned up – and the streaming platform’s algorithm promoted it

Wellet Potter - December 11, 2025 3 MIN READ

Imagine this: a band removes its entire music catalogue off Spotify in protest, only to discover an AI-generated impersonator has replaced it. The impersonator offers songs that sound much like the band’s originals. The imposter tops Spotify search results for the band’s music – attracting significant streams – and goes undetected for months. As incredible… Read more »

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Global tech

3 ways Spotify’s annual Wrapped of songs you listen to helps define who you are

Kelvin (Shiu Fung) Wong - December 6, 2024 3 MIN READ

Spotify has just released its 2024 Spotify Wrapped, the music streaming site’s annual presentation of each user’s yearly listening habits. It gives you a fun recap of your most listened to songs, artists and genres from the past year – complete with stats like how many minutes you listened and your top genre “phases” or… Read more »

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5 things you should know about tech today

Simon Thomsen - June 17, 2020 6 MIN READ

Welcome to Wednesday Don’t forget to tune into the Startup Daily show on the business TV streaming channel ausbiz.com.au every weekday, 2-3pm, where we talk to startup founders, investors and innovators about everything tech. If you’ve missed an episode, you can catch up on the ausbiz site here. 1. EU v Apple on competition The EU’s competition watchdog has some… Read more »

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5 things you should know about tech today

Simon Thomsen - May 5, 2020 5 MIN READ

Welcome to Tuesday. Here’s what we’ve spotted 1. Amazon VP resigns over company’s treatment of workers As exit interviews go, engineer Tim Bray’s observations on company culture and he resigned from Amazon last week are a doozy. The Canadian vice-president of Amazon Web Services and respected engineer resigned his US$1m+ job after five years and… Read more »

Opinion

Spotify’s former CTO details how to build and scale a successful startup

Sarah Kimmorley - May 1, 2019 3 MIN READ

Andreas Ehn was the first hire Spotify ever made back in 2006. As the tech juggernaut’s first CTO, he was responsible for hiring the engineering team and leading the development of the systems that form the basis of music platform that most of us now use everyday. Ehn recently made a trip to Sydney as part… Read more »

Advice

Brisbane’s Hydric Media works with brands to create apps for music discovery

James Ward - June 16, 2017 3 MIN READ

Brisbane-based Hydric Media works with brands to create apps for music discovery and curation, including SoundCloud track discovery app Wonder.

Advice

How these Australian scaleups are investing in company culture

Gina Baldassarre - May 25, 2017 8 MIN READ

Looking to take its company culture to the next level as it scales up is Airtasker, which recently appointed Mahesh Muralidhar as its new Head of People Operations.

Advice

POSMusic is offering retail brands commercially licensed streaming and analytical tools

James Ward - February 9, 2017 3 MIN READ

POSMusic serves licensed songs though an app and desktop service for retailers, providing analytical tools, custom-made playlists and Spotify integration.

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US coworking community RocketSpace to open three Australian campuses with Dexus Property Group

James Ward - December 15, 2016 2 MIN READ

Dexus Property Group has today announced a partnership with RocketSpace that will see the launch of a series of campuses across Australia.