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Thumbplay

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Thumbplay is a provider of mobile entertainment in the U.S. Thumbplay.com features licensed music, video and games from several large entertainment companies, including: EMI, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group.

Thumbplay Music – which launched in private beta on January 7, 2010 and in public beta on March 4, 2010 – is a cloud-based music service that provides unlimited access to more than 8 million songs under license from every major record label and more than 25,000 indie labels. The mobile app is currently available on BlackBerry and Android smartphones and PCs/Macs. It will be available on iPhone within the first half of 2010.

Headquartered in New York City, Thumbplay was founded in September 2004 by Are Traasdahl and Evan Schwartz. Investors include Bain Capital Ventures, SoftBank Capital, i-Hatch Ventures, Redwood Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Meritech, Brookside Capital Partners and Cross Creek Capital.

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  Thumbplay added Warren Wan as VP, Community.
  Posted 11/18/11 at 7:06pm
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  Thumbplay added Joe Bilman as Chief Product Officer. (3/1/06)
  Posted 7/19/11 at 10:35am
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  Thumbplay added Markus Thorstvedt as CTO.
  Posted 12/5/08 at 7:58am
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  Thumbplay added Craig Cooper as Board of Directors.
  Posted 8/27/07 at 4:35am
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  Thumbplay added Eric Hippeau as Board of Directors.
  Posted 8/27/07 at 4:35am
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  Thumbplay added Brad Farkas as Board of Directors.
  Posted 8/27/07 at 4:35am
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  Thumbplay added Chip Austin as Board of Directors.
  Posted 8/27/07 at 4:34am
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  Thumbplay added Lasse Hamre as EVP Technology.
  Posted 8/27/07 at 4:34am
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  Thumbplay added Scott Marshall as COO/CFO.
  Posted 8/27/07 at 4:34am
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  Thumbplay added Evan Schwartz as Co-founder and CEO.
  Posted 8/27/07 at 4:33am
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  Thumbplay added Are Traasdahl as Founder and Chairman.
  Posted 8/27/07 at 4:33am
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  Thumbplay received $2.5M in Series F funding. (4/21/10)
  Posted 4/21/10 at 12:34pm via sec.gov
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  Thumbplay received $15M in Series C funding. (10/30/06)
  Posted 3/28/10 at 7:29pm via businesswire.com
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  Thumbplay received $6M in Series F funding. (3/26/09)
  Posted 3/26/09 at 10:38pm
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  Thumbplay received $18M in Series E funding. (3/13/08)
  Posted 3/18/08 at 4:04pm via venturebeat.com
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  Thumbplay was acquired by Clear Channel Communications. (3/1/11)
  Posted 5/29/11 at 6:28am via businesswire.com

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1. BusinessWire (businesswire.com) [edit]
2. Thumbplay Announces $15 Million in New Funding (businesswire.com) [edit]
3. Thumbplay raises $18 million for wireless entertainment (venturebeat.com) [edit]
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5. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
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12. "NEW YORK CITY HOT 125" (lead411.com) [edit]
13. Thumbplay sells music subscription service to Clear Channel (mediamemo.allthingsd.com) [edit]