{"id":35461,"date":"2019-03-15T04:22:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T04:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=35461"},"modified":"2019-03-15T04:22:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T04:22:19","slug":"bollywood-music-is-silicon-valleys-next-target-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=35461","title":{"rendered":"Bollywood music is Silicon Valley&#8217;s next target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New Delhi  (CNN Business)<\/cite>Silicon Valley giants betting on India&#8217;s internet boom are turning to the country&#8217;s massive music industry. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><span>Facebook<\/span> <span>(<span class=\"inlink_chart\"><a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=FB&#038;source=story_quote_link\" class=\"inlink\">FB<\/a><\/span>)<\/span> announced Thursday that it had signed licensing deals with some of the biggest record labels in India&#8217;s top film industry, otherwise known as Bollywood. The deals will allow Indian users of Facebook and Instagram to<strong> <\/strong>add songs to their posts.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The announcement comes two days after <span>Google<\/span> <span>(<span class=\"inlink_chart\"><a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=GOOGL&#038;source=story_quote_link\" class=\"inlink\">GOOGL<\/a><\/span>)<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/india.googleblog.com\/2019\/03\/introducing-youtube-music-in-india.html\" target=\"_blank\">rolled out YouTube Music<\/a> in India. The music streaming version of the video platform, which launched in the United States last year, will charge Indian users only 99 rupees ($1.50) a month for a service free of ads. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi (CNN Business)Silicon Valley giants betting on India&#8217;s internet boom are turning to the country&#8217;s massive music industry. Facebook (FB) announced Thursday that it had signed licensing deals with some of the biggest record labels in India&#8217;s top film industry, otherwise known as Bollywood. The deals will allow Indian users of Facebook and Instagram&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}