Twitter Inc has invested approximately $70 million (roughly Rs. 470 crores) in Berlin-based song serviceSoundCloud, technology internet site Re/code said bringing up people familiar with the deal.
Twitter confirmed the investment, but did now not offer any financial information.
“in advance this yr we made an investment in SoundCloud thru Twitter Ventures to help assist a number of our efforts with creators,” Twitter leader executive Jack Dorsey stated.
SoundCloud, a platform that allows human beings to add and percentage track and different audio files,also confirmed that Twitter had made the funding.
Twitter’s investment changed into part of a investment round expected to be in the range of $100million, which would value SoundCloud at about $seven-hundred million, the Re/code report said.
The microblogging website has formerly tried to make a foray into song with the launch of Twitter tune in 2013, which became closed a 12 months later. on the time, the organization stated that it might look fornew approaches to carry tune primarily based content material to the carrier.
© Thomson Reuters 2016
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