Twitter in talks to buy online music firm SoundCloud

VENTURA, California, June 5 (Reuters) : Microblogging platform Twitter Inc has been in talks with Berlin-based audio sharing website SoundCloud in its efforts to add a music service to its offering, the Financial Times reported citing people familiar with the matter.

Twitter has weighed up deals worth billions of dollars and has also considered buying music-streaming service Spotify and internet-radio provider Pandora Media Inc, the newspaper.

SoundCloud is a platform that enables people to upload, record, promote and share their music and other audio files.