served worldwide key people andy chen ceo chris hart cfo industry music employees 120 parent project panther ltd. website aspiro.com aspiro group is a norwegian technology company founded in 1998 . the company mainly provides subscription based lossless music streaming services under two brands wimp music and tidal . the company is headquartered in norway with additional offices in sweden denmark germany and poland . as of the end of december 2014 aspiro s music streaming services had 500 000 paying customers . 1 contents 1 history 2 subsidiaries 3 references 4 external links history edit this section s tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on wikipedia . see wikipedia s guide to writing better articles for suggestions . march 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message the company was founded in 1998 by j rgen adolfsson christer m nsson and klas hallqvist . the founders knew each other from working together at europolitan one of sweden s three largest mobile phone operators at the time which was partly owned by vodafone . it was not until adolfsson and m nsson moved to oslo where they worked for telenor mobil s division for value creating services they realized the changes that wireless application protocol would mean for mobile communications immediately they contacted hallqvist who remained in sweden as head of quality at europolitan and founded aspiro . 2 in may 2000 aspiro was listed on stockholm stock exchange s new market and later in june 2001 began trading on the main list . between 2000 and 2008 aspiro acquired at least 13 companies midab data infocreator mgage systems picofun melody interactive solutions emode cellus inpoc boomi mobile avenue rubberduck voolife and mobile entry . however it wasn t until 2009 they developed their first music streaming service which is the core business today . 3 on january 30 2015 it was announced that aspiro had received a 56 million takeover bid from project panther bidco ltd which is indirectly owned and controlled by rapper and businessman jay z. 4 although some minority shareholders opposed the takeover and argued that project panther undervalued the growth potential in their bid the acquisition was announced finalized on march 13 after being accepted by over 90 percent of the shareholders . 5 6 7 subsidiaries edit tidal references edit aspiro reports user numbers for january . cision . 2015 02 09 . retrieved 2015 03 13 . jan eric hman 2000 02 22 . born mobile pdf . enablers . retrieved 2015 03 14 . schibsted s offer to the shareholders in aspiro ab pdf . schibsted . 2012 01 17 . retrieved 2015 03 14 . bloomberg that s business man why jay z s tidal is a complete disaster . he set out to save the music industry from the economics of streaming and make himself a fortune in the process . so far jay z is doing neither by devin leonard may 28 2015 schibsted asa sch schibsted accepts an offer from project panther bidco to acquire aspiro . schibsted . 2014 01 30 . retrieved 2015 03 14 . jay z s 56 million bid for aspiro undervalues company say shareholders . billboard . 2014 02 24 . retrieved 2015 03 14 . jay z buys the music streaming firm aspiro . ny times . 2013 03 13 . retrieved 2015 03 14 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title aspiro & oldid 709074663 categories jay zinternet companies of norwaystreaming music serviceshidden categories wikipedia articles needing style editing from march 2015all articles needing style editing navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages norsk bokm lsvenska edit links this page was last modified on 9 march 2016 at 00 51 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view