Aspiro

Aspiro AB was a Norwegian-based, legally Swedish-domiciled technology company founded in 1998. The company mainly provided subscription-based lossless music streaming services under its two brands, Tidal and WiMP. The company was headquartered in Norway, with additional offices in Poland, Sweden, Denmark, and Germany. As of the end of December 2014, Aspiro's music streaming services had 500,000 paying customers. History Aspiro AB was founded in 1998 by Jörgen Adolfsson, Christer Månsson, and Klas Hallqvist, who had previous experience working together at Europolitan, a major mobile phone operator in Sweden. After observing the impact of Wireless Application Protocol on mobile communications while working at Telenor Mobil's Value-Creating Services division in Oslo, they established Aspiro.