blog.pandora.com - 5/20/2009
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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 last 4 years has been an upgraded version of ...
pandora.com - 5/20/2009
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pandora.com —
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 ...
bloomberg.com - 5/19/2009
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bloomberg.com —
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. ...
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Pandora Media Founder Sees Company’s First Profit Next Year
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Pandora Upgrades Subscription Service with 'One'
AppScout —
... "Pandora One is completely free of any sort of advertising: no audio ads, no visual ads. It's just you and your music," Tom Conrad, Pandora's chief technology officer, wrote in a blog post. ...
Pandora Aims For Paying Customers With Ad-Free Desktop Player
paidContent —
... the streaming music company had more premium options coming down the pike, and now it's rolling out Pandora One, which gives users ad-free streaming in a customizable desktop app that's not tethered to a browser. ...
Pandora announces premium features and new desktop app
Download Squad —
... Since pundits started speculating last year that expensive royalty fees for streaming music would kill Pandora, it seems the company has consistently rolled out more creative, money-making features. ...
Spotify Is the New Napster – But Which One? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... –- Flickr, Dropbox, Evernote, et al -– Spotify isn’t a free “lite” service that power users pay to upgrade after maxing it out. Rather, people will be expected to pay for a superior experience of a service that’s already very good. The ad-free upgrade sounds nice enough, but a reasonable price point for that is probably closer to the $3 that it costs for Pandora One. ...
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Pandora Now Working on the BlackBerry Storm
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Wowza. The CrackBerry Tips inbox is a mess and the forums are a buzz on word that Pandora has been updated. And with the step up to version 1.02, it appears Pandora has finally embraced the BlackBerry Storm. Sweet. I'll keep this ...
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