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Gaana Raises $115 Million Funding From Tencent and Times Internet
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Gaana Raises $115 Million Funding From Tencent and Times Internet

Tencent Holdings, China’s internet mastodon is again making sensation in the Indian market with another colossal investment. Indeed, after investing an eye-dropping $1.1 billion in cab-hailing firm Ola, back in October last year, Tencent Holdings are spilling the cash for yet another Indian firm. Gaana, a music streaming app is raising $115 million funding from the Chinese Internet investment company. Times Internet was also participated in this round. A branch of the Times Group, Gaana.com, wishes to utilize the funding to invest in artificial intelligence (AI). The investment in this new technology aims at personalizing customers’ musical experience. The artificial intelligence will also upgrade the service of subscription for paying users. Gaana also aims at developing the music e...
Gaana, India’s Favorite Music App, Crosses 50 Million Milestone
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Gaana, India’s Favorite Music App, Crosses 50 Million Milestone

Gaana, India's favorite music app, announced that it has crossed 50 Million app downloads since it was launched, 4 years back. Gaana is now the biggest music and content streaming service in India and is credited with reinventing the music industry by replacing low quality online music with a monthly subscription service with unlimited downloads and listings of over 10 million songs. Gaana has added various unique and innovative features in the recent past which includes original content programming with top celebrities (likes of Asha Bhonsle, Shankar Mahadevan, Ashish Vidyarthi), India's first Facebook messenger music bot, local music integration, localisation of app in 9 languages, mobile wallet integrations, music recommendation engine and seamless playability even at 2G speed which ...