techcrunch.com - 5/20/2009
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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 (something that has been a question mark given the ...
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
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
wired.com - 5/19/2009
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wired.com —
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 ...
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Pandora Predicts First-Ever Profit
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Pandora's New Subscription Service: Desktop App, HQ Streaming, and NO ADS [Online Music]
Gizmodo —
... With Pandora One, which is available from today (sorry, still only in the US), you're mostly paying for one thing: no ads. But unlike their old premium service, this promise really means no ads—no ads on their website, no ads in their audio streams, and no ads in third-party apps, like their popular iPhone client. And about those clients—now there's an official desktop app, built on the cross-platform Adobe Air. According to TechCrunch, it's a bit minimalist, but good. ...
Pandora One ad-free subscription with Pandora Desktop App for $36 a year
Obsessable News Feed —
... Conversations: The Freemium Model And A Desktop App Get The Thumbs Up With Pandora One [TechCrunch] ...
Daily Tech: Palm Pre Up Against the iPhone 3G
GeekSugar —
... Today Pandora launches Pandora One, a subscription Pandora service which costs $36 a year and will provide you with a desktop app, high-quality streaming, and a mini player. - TechCrunch ...
Roundup: YouTube must pay songwriters, Queen Rania loves Twitter, and more
VentureBeat —
... Pandora gets a pay product and a desktop application with Pandora One — The music startup will charge $37-a-year for the service. ...
Popular Streaming App Pandora Launches Premium Service With Desktop App
Maximum PC all RSS Feed —
... Chances are good that if you’re a fan of streaming music online, you’ve heard of Pandora. And, apparently users of the service like it so much that they’ve actually been asking about ways to pay the company to guarantee its survival. At long last those (strange) questions have been answered, with the introduction of ...
Internet radio reaches deal with record industry, Pandora saved
VentureBeat —
... Conrad added that the deal still sets Pandora’s royalty rates at a level “much higher than any other form of radio.” To bring in more money, the Oakland, Calif., startup is limiting its free service to 40 hours of listening a month. People who want to listen more than that (they account for 10 percent of users right now) have to pay $0.99 or upgrade to the $36-a-year Pandora One service. ...
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Pandora: From Near-Death to Profitability in a Year
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Pandora Head: We'll Be Profitable Next Year
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@ EconSM: More Audio Ads Likely Coming To Pandora
paidcontent.org 8/3/2009 — image As Pandora’s audience begins to 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 audio ads, ...
Pandora orchestrates workable royalty rates for internet radio industry
obsessable.com 7/8/2009 — It's still expensive, but thanks to negotiations with SoundExchange an entire industry of music webcasters has a better chance of survival. Thanks to lots of legwork by Pandora, internet radio startups overall might have a chance to survive. Already precipitously high and in danger of being ...
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