Articles about Pandora

SiriusXM’s $3.5B Pandora acquisition agreement lets music service look for a better deal

Who else might be interested in buying Pandora? That’s one of the questions raised by a provision in SiriusXM’s agreement… Read More

Tech Moves: LinkedIn China president resigns; Amperity adds to leadership board; and more

Derek Shen, the president of LinkedIn China, has reportedly resigned from his role at the Microsoft-owned company. The news was… Read More

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Geared Up: Nintendo Switch sees early success, fast food goes high tech, and the next iPad

It was a busy week in gadget news. The Nintendo Switch scored an early win as the best console launch in the… Read More

Pandora finally gets into the on-demand music streaming game, challenging Spotify and Apple Music

Pandora, the Internet radio giant that pioneered music streaming, is launching a premium subscription service to compete with industry titans Spotify and… Read More

Ex-Pandora and aQuantive CEO Brian McAndrews joins board at PicMonkey

The evolving picture of Brian McAndrews’ tech career is taking a new turn as Seattle-based PicMonkey, the photo editing and… Read More

Uber unleashing inner DJs as riders can control music in app with Pandora or Spotify Premium

If you’re a bit of a control freak when it comes to the music you listen to in the car,… Read More

You can now use Spotify or Pandora as the default music player on Amazon’s Echo

Amazon Echo owners can now set Spotify or Pandora to be their default music player. Previously, Echo users could have… Read More

Pandora CEO Brian McAndrews leaving as founder returns to top job

Internet radio service Pandora, facing intense competition from Apple, Spotify and other rivals in digital music, this morning announced the departure of… Read More

Pandora stock halted briefly after spiking on news of potential sale

Pandora is meeting with potential buyers after its stock plummeted 60 percent since October, according to a report in the New… Read More

Pandora will pay more for streaming songs under new ruling — but not as much as music labels wanted

Pandora is going to be paying 20 percent more for every song its users stream, after the Copyright Royalty Board released… Read More

Rdio to shut down streaming music service, sells assets to Pandora for $75M

Streaming music service Rdio will play its last song soon. The service, founded by Skype co-founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstroem,… Read More

Chart: Apple Music vs. Spotify, Pandora, Rhapsody and the rest of the streaming competition

Apple unveiled its new $9.99/month streaming music service this morning, staking its claim in a market with a large number… Read More

Pandora continues to grow in Seattle and Portland, focusing on ad sales rather than engineering

Pandora has recently expanded its presence in both Seattle and Portland, trying to take a bite out of the billion-dollar… Read More

Apple’s new music streaming service coming as soon as next week

Apple is expected to announce a new music streaming service next week that, if successful, could cannibalize its own music download… Read More

Amazon updates Echo with support for Pandora, baseball scores

Amazon’s Echo virtual-assistant-in-a-speaker received a small update today that improves the service for sports fans and music fans. People who… Read More

Chart: This is how crowded the streaming music industry is

It’s hard out there for a streaming music service in the U.S. A new chart from Statista shows just how… Read More

Amazon’s Prime Music iOS app now has Pandora-like radio station feature

Amazon’s music service now has an ad-free radio station feature similar to what companies like Pandora and Apple (iTunes Radio)… Read More

Pandora misses revenue expectations, shares plunge more than 20% after hours

Music streaming service Pandora posted quarterly revenue figures that fell short of Wall Street estimates: $268 million versus an anticipated… Read More

This is bleeping awesome: Amazon Echo’s Alexa will cuss on command

Alexa, the virtual personality behind Amazon Echo, will now repeat anything you want. As long as you don’t step into NSFW language,… Read More

Amazon Echo adds voice controls for Spotify, iTunes and Pandora, plus new ‘Simon Says’ feature

Amazon just added a pair of new features to its Echo intelligent talking speaker, providing voice controls for three third-party music services, and… Read More

Jukebox hero? Pandora offers musicians stats on how often they get played

Pandora has started offering musicians more details about how users on its online radio service are interacting with the songs… Read More

Judge rules in favor of Pandora in important licensing case

Brian McAndrews, former head of aQuantive and Pandora’s new CEO got some good news today from the company’s law firm:… Read More

Pandora offering 14 million shares days after hiring new CEO

New Pandora CEO Brian McAndrews may soon have a good chunk of cash to work with, just days after taking… Read More

Meet new Pandora CEO Brian McAndrews: A Bruno Mars fan with some big-time advertising chops

Newly-named Pandora CEO Brian McAndrews is well known in technology and media circles as an online advertising whiz. But, let’s… Read More

Microsoft debuts Xbox Music for browsers

Microsoft today unveiled its Xbox Music hub for the web, allowing Xbox Music Pass subscribers to stream their tunes right… Read More

Apple’s iTunes Radio takes on Pandora; Rhapsody says it’s not worried

Apple unveiled its long-awaited move into streaming music this morning, announcing plans to release a free Internet radio service called… Read More

Pandora’s box: Internet radio service’s new HTML5 site targets TV via Xbox 360, PS3

Internet radio giant Pandora announced a move into the living room today with the launch of tv.pandora.com, which is designed… Read More

New look: Rhapsody iOS app gets complete makeover

It’s makeover time for the Rhapsody iOS app, as the Seattle online music streaming company just debuted a completely redesigned… Read More

Who wrote that song? Rhapsody becomes first music service to offer liner notes

To many listeners, one benefit of purchasing physical music is the ability to learn who was responsible for the behind-the-scenes… Read More

Rhapsody exec advises Spotify, Rdio: You’re doing it wrong

Jon Maples, Rhapsody VP of Product and Content, has some veteran advice for fellow music streaming competitors Spotify and Rdio: Stop… Read More