In an effort to be Dropbox music, Mecanto launches affordable streaming and storage services

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If you're a fan of cloud-based music boxes, this is a good time to be alive. Back in March, Amazon somewhat surprising beat Apple and Google storage and streaming music from their "Cloud drive" and "Cloud player". Google and Apple have since begun to cloud music victims (or their Beta), and all three continue to improve and evolve as time marches on.

As a lover of music, it's great to see cloud music storage and streaming services, move forward in tandem, even if we must all recognize that our own personal bookmark. Because, frankly, more competition in this space, the better. That is why you should pay attention to the new startup, which enters the stage left: Mecanto. Yes, today, a new service cloudy music includes Arena, promising Unlimited Music streaming and storage of the listeners around the world is not to put a dent in your wallet. (TC 1000 Mecanto offers readers free 6 months subscription. Huzzah! See below for more information.)

On the basis of the Tel Aviv Mecanto hitting scenes this week to support cloud music player and storage service, easy to set up and all the things the user wants from their trusty neighborhood music locker: unlimited storage and streaming, the ability to automatically sync your iTunes library and PC folders with your account (with multiple computers), global accessibility, playlist editing, video, easy overview and cross platform functionality. Also doesn't hurt that users can find Mecanto on the Internet or go mobile iOS, Android, Windows Mobile and Symbian.

MeCanto Mobile interface is very stylish and enables users to easily listen to the songs and albums or create playlists. Stream songs over 3 G or WiFi and users can listen to any song they want without having to worry about how much space the song took on a phone. Here's to you, clouds.

This sounds like a great start, right? Of course, but with names like Amazon, Google, Apple, Spotify and numerous other staring down Mecanto definitely has uphill climb ahead. In doing so, accessibility is a strong selling point for the service of Israeli music. Look at your competitors: Spotify unlimited "and" premium cost $ 60 per year and $ 120 per year, respectively, iCloud comes in at around $ 25 a year, Amazon Cloud drive and cloud player is worth at least $ 20 per year (unlimited storage may be limited time offer).

Google, on the other hand is currently free of charge, but there is little likelihood that it will stay that way for long. For comparison, at $ 20 per year, is an attractive alternative to large Mecanto players, especially as it offers worldwide access, cross platform integration, and instantly uploads — suite, which its competitors only offer to pieces.

In addition, users are free for the first time Mecanto month service at the end of which they can pay $ 20 for a whole year or breaking it down into $ 2 monthly. To start using, users can download a small application for desktop computers, which will then download and synchronize all the music automatically. Bing, Bada boom Bada boom probable cause. The best part: to accelerate the process of downloading Mecanto's, this means that users can access their music almost instantly, even before the download is complete. Students may obtain direct access to their music, or they can choose to upload your files to slower bandwidth savings without having to worry about delays.

Not wanting to be anti-social at the age of Facebook music service also offers a social function, including the possibility of adding a video to YouTube account and playback, as well as the ability to share these YouTube clips on Facebook and Twitter, Last.fm scrobbling tracks Exchange current track for social networking, bidirectional synchronization and intelligent categorization tracks. As for the support files? Mecanto works with MP3, M4A, WMA, OGG, FLAC and a big part of their language.

Mecanto in the so-called "three screens and a cloud" platform really is an excellent alternative to the big names in space, and a "Dropbox for music" is not an analogy unfair. Course design isn't quite up to par with some of the other, but its availability, worldwide access and cross platform functionality can simply give Mecanto feet, it has to be taken seriously in a crowded with familiar names space.

So far run raised $ 2 million in funding from private angels, but you can be sure that the startup will seek more cash as he begins to scale and rolls out around the world.

Israeli music locker is definitely worth a look, especially under the auspices of the monthly demo and the fact that the first 1000 readers to TechCrunch, which here will receive free testing within six months of service. I mean, who doesn't love music deal? Check this.

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Dropbox selects Investor Group score set at 5 + billion

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We track twists and turns of mega Dropbox, financing round feeding frenzy during the month. Sarah Lacy wrote in July that they would raise $ 200 million to $ 300 million to $ 5 billion or higher. A week ago mg Siegler wrote that the auction process and Dropbox is considering bids as high as $ 10 billion.

Now the company has selected investors will participate in the round, we have heard from one of our sources. The final evaluation will be less than 6 billion, and we have heard that the original estimate of $ 200-$ 300 million round is still correct. We do not yet know who leads the round or otherwise participating, but that the information likely will be known soon.

In the end the Dropbox do not select the investor with the highest rate of assessment, we have heard. Look for the round close and will be announced in the coming weeks.

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After the auction, Dropbox is close to the choice of investors — Round put in $ 10 billion

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We are known for a week now, Dropbox has been talking to investors about the new mega round of financing. The company, which just raised $ 7.2 million in seed and series a round in 2007, aspires to something between $ 200 million and $ 300 million, we have heard. But now we know a little more. And we have heard something from one source, which is nothing short of shocking.

Dropbox auction last week, during which investors made their requests to participate in the new round, numerous sources tell us. This week, Dropbox, met with the VCs who bets and collect term sheets. All they have to make that decision now.

Here's the really crazy stuff: one of the proposals under consideration could push the Dropbox score post-money $ 10 billion , one source tells us. Another source said that was inaccurate and considered the final evaluation will settle towards the bottom of the value of $ 5 to $ 10 billion we reported last month.

Score from 10 billion dollars would be amazing for a number of reasons. But consider this: Pandora and LinkedIn, two companies recently became public, have market caps of $ 2.16 billion and $ 8.63 billion, respectively. Yes, start with just 65 staff members may be worth more money on paper than these two public darlings.

Also consider: Yahoo has a Capitalization of $ 15 billion. And our parents, AOL, capitalization of only $ 1.72 billion.

Dropbox has 25 million users (many of whom are paying) downloading files 200 million a day.

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