Tim Westergren, who co-founded Pandora 17 years ago and who’s been serving his second round as CEO for the past year, plans to step down, Recode reported Sunday. Pandora started as a vanguard of music streaming with its digital version of radio, but it has lost steam over the last five years to faster-growing rivals like Spotify and Apple Music. Earlier this …
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Apple Music subscribers can now sign up for a $99 12-month subscription — no gift card needed. Apple Music subscribers now get a $99 1-year subscription option. Screenshot by CNET Previously, the $99 deal for a year of Apple Music was only available through a gift card. Now, subscribers can sign up for the deal, which works out to $8.25 …
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Spotify is — still — No. 1. More than 140 million people stream tunes on Spotify every month, according to a blog post Thursday by head of sales Brian Benedik. The company last updated its listener number a year ago, when it notched 100 million listeners a month. That means Spotify has nearly twice the number of active listeners as Pandora, its …
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Pandora is getting some backing… from space. Sirium XM, the satellite radio purveyor best known as the home of Howard Stern, will make a strategic investment in streaming music service Pandora. Last year Pandora was reportedly open to a takeover by Sirius XM. The $480 million investment instead amounts to a minority stake, which also involves seats on Pandora’s board …
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Pandora will launch an automated feature Friday to infinitely play songs similar to the last thing you listened to, called AutoPlay, on its fledgling $10-a-month Premium service. With AutoPlay, subscribers using an Apple mobile device or Android product will immediately segue into a similar song based off the last thing that finished playing, be it an album, track or playlist. …
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Amazon’s Echo may dominate smart speakers, but Pandora appears to rule the Echo. Pandora’s streaming music service represents more than 40 percent of listening on Amazon’s Echo devices, Pandora CEO Tim Westergren said Tuesday at a keynote discussion during A2IM Indie Week, an independent music label conference in New York. That jibes with third-party data released earlier this year suggesting …
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SiriusXM may not be done with its ambitions to take over Pandora. The Liberty Media-backed satellite radio giant is in active discussions about making a bid for the beleaguered online radio streaming service, the New York Post reported Wednesday. SiriusXM has shown interest before in a possible acquisition of Pandora and recently resumed talks with Pandora’s banks over the size …
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Online radio giant Pandora opened the gates Tuesday for anyone to join its long-planned Spotify-style music service, after inviting some listeners to test it last month. Pandora Premium, a full-fledged, on-demand music subscription, will compete with faster-growing rivals like Spotify and Apple Music. Premium costs $10 a month, though the company is offering several free trials (see below). Pandora, founded …
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Now playing: Watch this: 8 ways to repurpose your old phone 2:10 You can teach an old iPhone new tricks. CC Yutaka Tsutano/Flickr The iPhone has been around for a full 10 years now, meaning at some point you’ve probably upgraded to a newer model. (Possibly several newer models.) And whenever you do that, you’re left with your old phone …
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If there were any doubts before, streaming is king now. Revenue from streaming music accounted for the majority of US major record labels’ sales for the first time ever last year, a music industry trade group said Thursday. Streaming vaulted over the one-time leader digital downloads, which declined faster than any previous year. The data underscores the meteoric popularity of …
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