mSpot

mSpot was a mobile cloud-based content service provider founded in 2004 by Daren Tsui (CEO) and Ed Ho (CTO) and headquartered in Palo Alto, California. The company offered a cloud music locker that let users upload their music library and stream it from PCs, Macs, iPhone, iPad and Android devices, alongside a full-length movie rental service with content deals across Sony, Disney, Paramount, NBC/Universal, Lionsgate, Warner and others. mSpot raised roughly $2.3M in venture funding from Trinity Ventures and was acquired by Samsung Electronics in May 2012 (reported ~$8.8M) to power the Samsung Music Hub. The standalone mSpot product and brand were subsequently wound down and folded into Samsung; there is no active mSpot developer portal, API, or product surface today. This profile is retained as a historical network record.

mSpot is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Music, Streaming, and Media.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

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Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

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Agent Skills 0 / 5

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Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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name: mSpot
description: mSpot was a mobile cloud-based content service provider founded in 2004 by Daren Tsui (CEO) and Ed Ho (CTO) and
  headquartered in Palo Alto, California. The company offered a cloud music locker that let users upload their music library
  and stream it from PCs, Macs, iPhone, iPad and Android devices, alongside a full-length movie rental service with content
  deals across Sony, Disney, Paramount, NBC/Universal, Lionsgate, Warner and others. mSpot raised roughly $2.3M in venture
  funding from Trinity Ventures and was acquired by Samsung Electronics in May 2012 (reported ~$8.8M) to power the Samsung
  Music Hub. The standalone mSpot product and brand were subsequently wound down and folded into Samsung; there is no active
  mSpot developer portal, API, or product surface today. This profile is retained as a historical network record.
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