Google acquired music streaming service Songza in June of last year, and Songza’s unique recommended playlist feature was integrated early on into Play Music. Today, the Songza team has announced (via ...

Google today said it plans to shut down Songza by the end of January. Google bought the music-streaming service in 2014. Google initially allowed Songza to operate side-by-side with Google Music even ...

There can only be one. In an effort to streamline its music services, Google is shutting down Songza’s website and mobile apps. Existing users will have to migrate to Google Play Music. Google bought ...

Songza was a pretty unique little streaming service while it lasted. Although it never really garnered the subscriber-base that it needed to survive independently, it did develop a passionate group of ...

It’s been 17 months since Google acquired Songza. Today marks the first day that Songza will no longer operate as an independent entity. Instead, the core service offerings that were once available on ...

The music wars are afoot, Google is consolidating its weaponry. Beginning today, Songza users will be notified that the Songza website and mobile apps are being fully folded into Google Play Music as ...

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Google will officially shut off Songza at the end of January, leaving a two-month window for listeners of the streaming service to migrate to Google Play Music, according to an announcement. The move ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A YouTube Music spokesperson confirmed the departure, but said that the YouTube Music team was otherwise intact, with T. Jay ...

In 2007, a little known service called Songza launched to offer something that was, back then, almost completely unheard of: contextual music suggestions. Since then, various music streaming service ...