bloomberg.com - 5/19/2009
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May 19 (Bloomberg) -- Pandora Media Inc. , the free online- radio service that generates playlists based on users’ musical preferences, aims to be profitable next year for the first time since the company started in 2000, founder Tim Westergren said. Revenue may double this year to about $40 ...
pandora.com - 5/20/2009
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Pandora desktop application With the Pandora One Desktop
Application, you can play your Pandora stations right from...
your desktop - without opening a new browser window. For Mac & Windows. (Requires Adobe Air 1.5.1 and Flash 9.0.115.0) High quality ...
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Pandora One
techcrunch.com - 5/20/2009
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techcrunch.com —
You’d be hard pressed to find someone who
tries the online streaming radio service Pandora that doesn’t...
like it. In fact, some users like it so much that they actually ask for ways to pay the company, to make sure it stays alive ...
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The Freemium Model And A Desktop App Get The Thumbs Up ...
blog.pandora.com - 5/20/2009
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blog.pandora.com —
When you start building something like Pandora you
quickly realize there's going to be a bunch of...
things that you'd love to do from day one that will have to wait for a later date. We have a long list like that and one staple of that list for the ...
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Pandora One: Upgrade the Pandora Experience
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Pandora Aims For Profitability As Mobile App Usage Soars
mocoNews —
... Free online-radio service Pandora may be profitable next year, the first time since its launch 9 years ago, as the number of its subscribers continue to climb, boosted by the release of its mobile application for Apple's iPhone and RIM's Blackberry devices, reports Bloomberg. Founder Tim Westergren told the newswire that Pandora, which currently has 27 million registered users, could double its revenues to $40 million this year, as the ad-supported service adds some 50,000 – 60,000 members a day. As much as forty percent of those users are being driven ...
Pandora Head: We'll Be Profitable Next Year
AppScout —
... "It's a whole new world for us," Westergren described the company's move toward mobile in a recent interview. "It's changed the perception people have of what Internet radio is, from computer-radio to radio, because you can take the iPhone and just plug it into your car, or take it to the gym." ...
Pandora Predicts First-Ever Profit
Wired: Epicenter —
Having followed Pandora’s progress for nearly a decade, I’ve seen the company do just about everything one can do with interactive radio — except for turn a profit. That will change in 2010, according to Pandora founder Tim Westergren.
He told Bloomberg on Monday that Pandora could make as much as $40 million in revenue this year — and that it will become profitable for the first time next year on the strength of its seemingly ever-expanding user base and an iPhone app that attracts around 20,000 new users each day.
“[Pandora's iPhone app has] changed the perception people have of ...
Pandora Expects to Make a Profit in 2010 - Still Growing Rapidly
ReadWriteWeb —
We have seen our fair share of doom and gloom this year, but, according to a report from Bloomberg.com, at least Pandora, the free online music discovery service, expects to be profitable next year. Pandora was founded in in 2000, and derives its revenue from targeted audio advertising in its music streams and affiliate sales through Amazon's MP3 store and iTunes. In the interview with Bloomberg, Pandora's founder Tim Westergreen also disclosed that the service is currently adding about 50,000 new users a day, and that the service's successful iPhone app is responsible for bringing in about 20,000 of these new users. ...
Pandora: From the Brink of Death to Profitability
Mashable! —
Even though we love Pandora, there was a time when most of us, even Pandora’s founder, saw little hope that the startup could survive if Internet royalty rates for music were to rise.
Now, less than one year, Pandora is seeing sunny skies and reporting that the company should reach profitability in 2010 thanks to their ability to serve highly targeted advertisements.
In an interview with Bloomberg, Pandora’s founder, Tim Westergren, said that “Revenue may double this year to about $40 million,” and that the site, “has 27 million registered users and is adding members at 50,000 to ...
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More Audio Ads Likely Coming To Pandora
paidcontent.org 5/15/2009 — As Pandora's audience begins to increasingly mirror that of radio listeners at large, the company will likely run additional audio ads, Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy said at the econSM Conference Thursday. Currently, Pandora runs only a small number of ...
Most Complete Pandora Photos Yet
gadgetoid.com 6/2/2009 — CraigIX has posted the most complete pictures of the Pandora yet. Although it’s still clad in a prototype CNC case this particular Pandora is actually in a fetching black, as opposed to the white stress-line-revealing getup of previous assembled ...
Pandora (And Other Internet Radio) Has Officially Been Saved
techcrunch.com 7/7/2009 — After two years of uncertainty, Pandora’s future has finally been secured.
For those not familiar with what was going on, basically the streaming rates for Internet radio were in danger of being raised to levels that would have made it very ...
Pandora’s iPhone App Gets Concert Listings — Through An Ad
techcrunch.com 6/23/2009 — Pandora had the top downloaded iPhone app for all of last year, and it continues to be a big success for the company, even helping them make some money . Now there’s another avenue to potentially do that with personalized concert listings ...
Teens panic as they're forced to unplug at camp —
SFGate: Technology 5/15/2009
Tim Chai keeps in touch with friends through Facebook, listens to music on his iPod and never goes anywhere without his BlackBerry. So when the 17-year-old was looking for a summer camp, he ruled out a church camp with a no cell phone, no computer ...
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