Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Spotify is set to expand its global footprint with the launch of a London-based R&D unit. The Stockholm-based music, podcast and video streaming company already boasts R&D units in Stockholm and ...

Microsoft completed the $120 million acquisition of Groove Networks last week, after quickly overcoming a shareholder challenge from a dissatisfied former Groove executive. The Beverly, Mass.-based ...

Microsoft today announced it is discontinuing Groove, its ill-fated music streaming service. Redmond will no longer sell subscriptions or music downloads after December 31, and any remaining ...

A year after buying Groove Networks and its peer-to-peer technology, Microsoft has begun laying out plans to develop the software into the offline client that has been missing in its ...

Microsoft Office Groove 2007 will get a name change next year that's more in tune with the SharePoint side of things. The client product will be known as "SharePoint Workspace 2010" and will be added, ...

Groove Networks plans to integrate support for Microsoft's online collaboration technology into its future applications, the company said Monday. Both Groove and Microsoft's SharePoint Team Services ...

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Microsoft announced today that it is rebranding the Xbox Music service as Groove with the release of Windows 10. The new branding won’t affect the core experience, leaving the music service much like ...

Is Microsoft loosing its Groove? No, but they are changing the name of it. Microsoft Groove 2007 - the collaboration and document sharing software for small teams working online and offline -- is ...

Microsoft on Thursday said it will acquire Groove Networks and make Groove's founder, Ray Ozzie, a chief technical officer at the software giant. Microsoft said it will incorporate Groove's "virtual ...