Mobile’s newest star Songza is red hot with 1.15 Million iOS downloads in 10 days

Posted by Gigaom
In 2008, when Aza Raskin and his co-founders decided to call it quits on Humanized and its best known product, Songza, they got themselves gigs at Mozilla, and they�quietly sold the assets of the service to Queens, New York-based online music retailer, Amiestreet. In reality, that was the last anyone should have heard of the service that used to strip audio out of YouTube videos and stream it to the users of its music service.
Amiestreet, a cult favorite of sorts, was started by Elias Roman, Peter Asbill, Elliott Breece and Eric Davich. They wanted Songza as their “night and weekend” project. However, by 2010, the writing was on the wall for them: the music buyer was going to wan[...]
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