Spotify buys machine-learning startup Niland

Spotify has made another acquisition of a startup: Paris-based machine-learning firm Niland. "Niland has changed the game for how AI technology can optimise music search and recommendation capabilities and shares Spotify's passion for surfacing the right content to the right user at the right time," announced Spotify in a blog post. "The team from Niland will join our New York office and help Spotify continue innovating and improving our recommendation and personalisation technologies resulting in more music discovery which benefits both fans and artists." This is just the latest acquisition for Spotify as it cherry-picks from the pool of music/tech startups. In March, it bought British firm Sonalytic, which had developed music-identification and TV/radio-monitoring technology.