The man who invented cassette tapes in 1963, which spawned the recording of countless mixtapes for music lovers, has died at age 94. Lou Ottens, while working with the Dutch company Royal Philips, ...

Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor of the cassette tape, has died at the age of 94, his family has confirmed to CNN. They said the inventor died at his home in Duizel, the Netherlands, on Saturday. His ...

The big picture: Lou Ottens worked his way up the ranks at Philips, eventually overseeing the company's new product R&D division. He led development of the company's first portable tape recorder, the ...

Lou Ottens was fiddling with a reel-to-reel tape recorder one night in the early 1960s, trying to thread a wafer-thin piece of magnetic tape through mechanical guides so that he could listen to . . .

As reported by Dutch publication NRC Handelsblad, the inventor of the compact cassette tape, Lou Ottens has died aged 94. Ottens began working at Philips in 1952 and became the head of product ...

The first Compact Cassette recorder was presented at the 1963 Berlin Radio Show by the Dutch company Philips. It became a runaway success. We meet Conrad Rodenberg, who runs the Berlin label Froggi ...

Many people still crave the old analogue musical sound and feel that it made for a richer auditory experience than digital music. The same goes with recording professionals who have to tape interviews ...

Backed by the National Music Publishers' Association, a songwriter has filed a class-action lawsuit seeking to block Sony Corp. from selling its digital audio tape recorders in the United States. In a ...

Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor who pioneered the compact disc and invented the cassette tape — the medium of choice for millions of homemade mix tapes — has died at a care facility in the Netherlands.

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