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Pandora taps former Microsoft exec Brian McAndrews as its new CEO
Internet Radio company Pandora has appointed Brian McAndrews as its new head honcho, the company announced today. Pandora has been looking for a new CEO since (now former) chief exec Joe Kennedy...
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Pandora could raise $279.4M with sale of 12M in common stock
Streaming music service company Pandora Media is selling 10 million shares of common stock, which could net it about $230.8 million at $23.99 per share, according to an SEC filing released today. The...
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Pandora gets a slick makeover for iOS 7’s launch to steal attention from...
Continuing its streak of big announcements, Pandora is rolling out a revamped iPad app today that’s quite an improvement over the previous version. The revamped Pandora iPad app coincides with the...
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Check out these 6 major apps that redesigned for iOS 7 today
Apple’s iOS 7 came out Wednesday, and with it a bunch of app updates to take advantage of the flat, new interface. Yeah, that’s right, you can’t sit at this lunch table, skeuomorphic designs. The...
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Pandora finally comes to Chromecast via Android & iPhone apps
The biggest setback to Google’s streaming media stick Chromecast is the sparse selection of available applications, which until now hasn’t included any third-party music services. (You could, however,...
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Pandora to ramp up native ads in connected cars for 2014
Pandora is planning to add native advertising to connected automobiles where the streaming music service is available, the company said during today’s Q4 earnings call. The company emphasized that its...
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Pandora announces major executive team shuffle — CTO Tom Conrad to depart
Pandora announced that it’s shuffling its executive team today, which will see long-time chief technical officer and EVP of product Tom Conrad stepping down later this year. Conrad first started with...
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Pandora might lose all music recorded before 1972 due to copyright infringement
Major music companies are suing online radio service Pandora for what they claim is a major case of copyright infringement. Typically, Pandora pays a licensing fee every time one of its listeners plays...
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How Trulia turns 'real estate porn' into lasting relationships
SAN FRANCISCO — Real-estate information service Trulia has seen tremendous success with its mobile app. But the trick is turning people who are idle browsers of “real estate porn” into more serious,...
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5 million new Pandora users have signed up in the car
SAN FRANCISCO — Pandora’s date with destiny may begin in the car. This year, 135 car models from 26 auto makers will be coming off the lot with Pandora built in, Pandora’s VP of strategic solutions...
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Pandora's smart radio service gets a Google Glass app
While the majority of tech geeks don’t have access to Google’s smart eyewear Google Glass, it’s nice to know plenty of popular services are already jumping on board. The latest example is a new...
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Pandora signs deal with BMG to stream hits
Pandora Media, the internet radio service, says it has reached a licensing agreement with BMG for hit songs dating back to Sinatra. They include songs by mega-sellers Beyonce and Jay Z. The deal...
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My breakfast with Westergren: Pandora's founder talks about royalties, ads,...
Pandora has been the best-known name in Internet radio since 2000, when founder Tim Westergren launched the Music Genome Project. But the (now public) company has recently struggled to sell enough ads...
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Apple confirms decline in sales of iTunes digital music downloads
In a securities filing, Apple confirmed what just about everyone else suspected: Sales of iTunes music downloads are falling. The admission came in the company’s annual report, filed yesterday with the...
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Pandora & Smule are kicking everyone's ass in mobile music revenue &...
Pandora might be the least exciting of the major streaming music services, in part because it doesn’t offer on-demand music playback or a robust premium monthly subscription service. That, however,...
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Google, Spotify, & Pandora bet a computer could generate a better playlist...
EXCLUSIVE: Google, Pandora, and Spotify haven’t exactly advertised it, but they are all working on using a type of artificial intelligence called “deep learning” to make a better music playlist for...
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Spotify’s revised plan to dominate the crap out of rival music services
Spotify is sitting on top of the world. With 24 million monthly active users, 6 million paying subscribers, and $538 million (not a typo) in venture funding, it’s the dominant streaming music service...
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Why Pandora’s new analytics tool is a winner for both the music company and...
Try as they might, music services have yet to come up with a universally preferred method for artists to track listener data about their work. Spotify started offering its version of music analytics...
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Music streaming service Pandora nabs $150 million investment as it mulls...
(Reuters) — Pandora Media said on Monday that KKR & Co LP has agreed to invest $150 million in the music streaming service, while the company explores strategic alternatives, including a sale. The...
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