Showing posts with label pandora. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pandora. Show all posts

Friday, March 8, 2013

Pandora CEO announces resignation following record revenue and losses

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Pandora's CEO, Chairman, and President Joe Kennedy will resign from leadership of the company following yet another quarterly loss. Pandora's board of directors announced that it begun a search for a successor and that Kennedy would continue to lead the company through its transition.

"As I near the start of my tenth year at the helm of Pandora, I am incredibly proud of the team and what we have accomplished in redefining radio. As part of our Board discussions of the road that lies ahead, I reached the conclusion and advised the Board that the time is right to begin a process to identify my successor," Kennedy said in a press release from Pandora. "There is a tremendous market opportunity ahead and I look forward to continuing to work with all the great people at Pandora to keep driving the business forward."

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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Here's How Much Pandora Pays Music Artists

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Pandora wants you to know that Pandora is good for music because it pays artists millions and millions of dollars for their songs. Take Drake and Lil Wayne, they get nearly $3 million each a year. And Pandora wants to pay them more.

According to Pandora CEO Tim Westergren, Pandora will pay over two thousand artists $10,000 each over the next 12 months. Yeah it's not a milli a milli for every artist but that's still a solid chunk of change! The top dogs in music obviously get a lot of money:

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Friday, September 7, 2012

Apple Wants To Launch A Pandora-Killer

Apple wants to launch a streaming radio service like Pandora, Evan Smith and Jessica Vascellaro of the Wall Street Journal report.

The company is reportedly in talks with the music labels to license music for such a service.

The new radio service would work across all Apple devices and possibly Microsoft PCs.

But it would not work on Google-powered Android phones.

Apple has explored launching Spotify-like services before. But this time, apparently, the talks are more serious.

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Saturday, December 10, 2011

Spotify Radio vs. Pandora: Hands-on showdown

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Spotify took direct aim at Pandora Friday, launching an updated version of Spotify Radio. Can Pandora keep up with the fast moving Spotify? Check out our hands-on showdown to find out.

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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Kindle Fire: Yep, it'll have Netflix, Pandora, and more

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Amazon wants to reassure consumers that its upcoming Kindle Fire tablet will run big-name apps like Netflix and Pandora.

The company sent out a release this morning dropping the names of the two big streaming-media apps, along with plenty of others that will be available for the Kindle Fire right out of the gate when it becomes available next week.

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