mSpot Inc. is the developer of

Samsung Music Hub Music Hub was a cloud-based music service launched by Samsung. It allowed users to listen to music from a variety of Samsung devices. According to its website, it wanted to create an integrated mobile and web service for listening to music. Histo ...

– an all-in-one mobile music service that includes a streaming catalog, cloud music storage, radio, and music store. The service was currently available for Samsung smart mobile devices in the

U.S. The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous ...

and EU countries including the UK,

France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...

and

Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur ...

. mSpot became a wholly owned, independently operated subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, in May 2012: in July, 2013, mSpot employees became the Music Team for Samsung's Media Solutions Center. mSpot was founded in 2004 by Daren Tsui and Ed Ho, now CEO and CTO respectively. The company was initially launched as a mobile radio service. In early 2005, Sprint was building the first 2.5 G network and requested mSpot to provide one of the first mobile radio channels for the first service. Initially the service launched with 8 music channels and 5 talk channels (NPR, Acuweather); and is soon expanded to provide sports and entertainment channels, including premium content channels like NPR, and sports. Soon after, mSpot launched a white-labeled mobile entertainment platform offering music and video content, which is later licensed by other wireless carriers including

AT&T AT&T Inc., an abbreviation for its predecessor's former name, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, is an American multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered at Whitacre Tower in Downtown Dallas, Texas. It is the w ...

and

T-Mobile T-Mobile is the brand of telecommunications by Deutsche Telekom Deutsche Telekom AG (, ; often just Telekom, DTAG or DT; stylised as ·T·) is a partially state-owned German telecommunications company headquartered in Bonn and the largest telec ...

. In 2006, mSpot began offering full-length mobile movies that are streamed over wireless networks. Studios that first offered content for the service include

Disney The Walt Disney Company, commonly referred to as simply Disney, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment industry, entertainment conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios (Burbank), Walt Di ...

and

Universal Universal is the adjective for universe. Universal may also refer to: Companies * NBCUniversal, a media and entertainment company that is a subsidiary of Comcast ** Universal Animation Studios, an American Animation studio, and a subsidiary of N ...

: Scarface is the first mobile movie offered on mSpot Movies, initially offered on Sprint. In early 2008,

Island Def Jam Island Def Jam Music Group (IDJMG) was an American record label group formed on December 31, 1998, by Universal Music Group. Before 2014, IDJMG encompassed labels originally established under the umbrella of Island Records and Def Jam Recording ...

partnered with mSpot to bring label-sponsored radio to mSpot Radio. In May 2010, mSpot Music became one of the first "cloud" music services available in the U.S., ahead of Google Music and similar services from

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and others. Dias, Sam
Google I/O: mSpot streams personal music collections from the cloud
May 19, 2010

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Mobile technology companies