It’s no question that Smule has become one of the world’s most powerful social media tools. Four percent of the world’s population --350 million people -- have used Smule, and its numbers are growing ...

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Executives at Smule, the startup that turns mobile devices into musical instruments with apps like Ocarina and Magic Piano, say the company’s apps are about to get social in a big way. Sharing has ...

Is Smule being a bully? Or is it just mounting a reasonable defense of its intellectual property? In a nutshell, those are the questions I was trying to answer during interviews with Smule CEO Jeff ...

In a deal that combines two companies that create music-making apps for the Apple iPhone and iPad markets, Palo Alto-based Smule today announced a deal to acquire the Atlanta-based startup Khush, for ...

Social-music app Smule has launched LiveJam, a feature that it’s billing as the first time anyone can sing live with another user anywhere in the world, in real time. Smule has more than 50 million ...

You know the freemium business model for mobile apps has reached an inflection point when music app developer Smule—which has never released a free app in the lifetime of the company—embraces it. Sm… ...

Smule’s back with another music-themed iOS app. The company behind App Store hits like I Am T-Pain, Glee Karaoke, and Magic Keyboard on Thursday released Strum. Though it’s an easy analogy to fall ...

Smule raised $16 million in its latest round, even though it didn’t need to raise funding at all. Another atypical step for the atypical startup, which originated when a 40-something went back to ...

It’s not surprising that Smule, the startup behind cool musical iPhone applications like Ocarina and I Am T-Pain, has an app for Apple’s soon-to-debut iPad device, too — Magic Piano (iTunes link), ...