Digital Sky Technologies, better known as DST, is the VC firm behind Facebook, Groupon and Zynga. It's also leading a funding round for Spotify, the European streaming music startup valued at around $1 billion. So far, €82.3 million has been raised in a round of $100 million. 

With a boost from DST, Spotify is looking to go global, but strategically, commenting to PaidContent: “There are scenarios in which we’d enter many, many markets that would require raising external capital. Or you could adopt a market-by-market approach which doesn’t require further investment. We’re still working out which markets are our priorities.”Continue reading...

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