KKBOX
 |
|
| Type of business | Private |
|---|---|
| Founded | October 2004 |
| Headquarters | Taipei/Taiwan |
| Country of origin | Taiwan |
| Founder(s) | Chris Lin, et al |
| CEO | Chris Lin |
| Industry | Music |
| Services | Music streaming |
| Website | www |
| Users | 10 million+ |
| Launched | October 2004 |
| Current status | Active |
| Native client(s) on | Android, iOS, Windows, OS X, etc |
KKBOX is a music streaming service established by a group of Taiwanese software programmers in 2004. It targets the Asian market, focusing on regions like Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, etc. Working on a freemium basis, both "pay-per-month" buyers or free service listeners can listen to over 20-million tunes (kkbox) on smartphones, TVs, media centers and computers.
As a Taiwan-based music streaming software, KKBOX caters mainly to Chinese users by collaborating with record companies in the Chinese music industry. Major companies like Gold Typhoon, East Asia Music are some of their partners. KKBOX also has close links with Taiwanese artists, and mainstream Mandopop artists like Jay Chou and Mayday.
After launching KKBOX in Taiwan, the company expanded the music streaming service to Hong Kong and Macau in 2009, Japan in 2011, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand in 2013 with the ambition of expanding to international markets. Starting from 2011, KKBOX received investment from KDDI Corporation, a Japanese telecom who occupied 76% of the stocks, HTC Corporation, a smartphone company and GIC, a Singaporean fund. Telecom partners of Hong Kong KKBOX are 3 and SmarTone.
Since its establishment, KKBOX has opened up supporting platforms through different applications of internet installment. There are Windows (Windows 2000 or later version), Windows Media Center, Mac OS X, IOS, Android, Symbian, Bada and partly Java’s phone. KKBOX has started to support Apple Watch since 2015.
...
Wikipedia