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Pandora’s premium on-demand music streaming service to roll out in the U.S....
Online music service Pandora has finally revealed launch details for its much-anticipated on-demand music streaming service. Pandora Premium will cost $10 per month, and invites to start a free trial...
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Pandora’s Spotify competitor opens to everyone in the U.S.
Online music service Pandora has opened its on-demand music streaming service to everyone, a little more than a month after debuting the service on an invite-only basis. The news comes three months...
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Live concerts are music tech’s next frontier
With recent speculation about Spotify soon going public (without an IPO) and the belated launch of Pandora Premium, the music streaming space is increasingly nearing both maturity and saturation. The...
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Music streaming service Pandora nabs $150 million investment as it mulls...
(Reuters) — Pandora Media said on Monday that KKR & Co LP has agreed to invest $150 million in the music streaming service, while the company explores strategic alternatives, including a sale. The...
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Pandora nabs $480 million from SiriusXM while offloading Ticketfly for $200...
Pandora has settled ongoing speculation about its future by confirming it has received a $480 million investment from SiriusXM while offloading its ticketing business Ticketfly to Eventbrite for $200...
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Pandora knows you’re secretly not that hip
VB EVENT: The magic of machine learning is its ability to uncover patterns to return astonishing results. Things get dark when suddenly you realize that those sophisticated machine learning-powered...
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Cue sad playlist: Pandora departures point to uncertain future
ANALYSIS: Capping a tumultuous year for the music-streaming pioneer, Pandora is losing founder and CEO Tim Westergren as well as its president and chief marketing officer. The departures signal a...
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Pandora uses machine learning to make sense of 80 billion thumb votes
Pandora uses machine learning to find music recommendations, and anyone who likes indie music is likely going to benefit. In my experience, searching for a synth-rock band like Novo Amor usually yields...
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Pandora’s new CEO faces uphill battle to turn company around
Pandora today appointed Roger Lynch, founder and CEO of Sling TV, as its new CEO and a member of its board. The news prompted Pandora shares to rise 2.85 percent in after-hours trading. Lynch will...
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Sonos, Alexa, and Spotify: An excruciatingly slow evolution
ANALYSIS: Perhaps no one was more excited than I was by the official announcement that Amazon’s Alexa would work with Sonos speakers. And now, almost two weeks later, no one may be as frustrated as I...
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Twitch brings in a team of executives to oversee deployment of new features
Twitch is getting a new chief operating officer and some new vice presidents to help it continue to develop and launch community products on a steady schedule. The company, which now calls itself a...
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Pandora’s Premium music streaming service arrives on the web
Online music provider Pandora has revealed that its on-demand music streaming service is now available on the web. Pandora Premium was first announced in late 2016. After a short invite-only period, it...
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Pandora to acquire digital audio adtech company AdsWizz for $145 million
Music streaming company Pandora made a rare foray into acquisitions today with the news that it has snapped up adtech startup AdsWizz. Pandora is doling out $145 million in total to secure AdsWizz, “at...
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Pandora rolls out ‘personalized playlists’ to all Premium subscribers
Pandora is taking a leaf out of Spotify’s book today with the launch of personalized playlists for its Premium subscribers. The music-streaming company first announced this feature back in March and...
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How AI is changing the customer retention game (VB Live)
VB LIVE: Increasing retention by just 10 percent will boost your business value by more than 30 percent. And that number is in reach when you tap into your oil well of data and harness it via marketing...
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Twilio adds Atlanta office to expand its reach in the Southeast
Cloud communications company Twilio today announced that it is adding an office in Atlanta. The office will house sales, human resources, and engineering staff, and the company expects to hire more...
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Pandora Premium now plays ball with Google Assistant smart speakers
Pandora has announced that Premium subscribers can now access on-demand music through Google Home and other Google Assistant-powered smart speakers. It’s worth noting here that Pandora has in fact been...
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SiriusXM to acquire Pandora in a $3.5 billion all-stock deal
SiriusXM has announced plans to acquire Pandora in a $3.5 billion all-stock deal.Read More
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Facebook debuts Portal and Portal+ with AI-enhanced Messenger video calls and...
Portal and Portal+ make Facebook Messenger video calls, speak with Amazon's Alexa, and serve up a limited amount of social content from Facebook.Read More
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Can you deliver the ad personalization your customers demand? (VB Live)
Personalized web and mobile ads that reflects your customers' tastes, values, and preferences is what keeps them clicking -- but it's hard to pull off.Read More
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How Pandora turns personalization into $1 billion in ad revenue (VB Live)
To learn how companies like Pandora flawlessly serve up customized advertising that always clicks, don’t miss this VB Live event.Read More
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Google-incubated AdLingo claims its chatbots are up to 10 times more...
Google AdLingo cofounder Vic Fatnani and Valassis Digital VP of strategy Mike Balducci spoke at VB Summit 2018 about conversational advertisements.Read More
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Pandora exec: We were late to the game with our premium offering
Pandora director of data science Siddharth Patil said he believes his company was at least a year late in offering an on-demand music service.Read More
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Trulia’s got the secret to authentic personalization (VB Live)
To learn how companies like Trulia and Pandora flawlessly serve up personalization and customized results that click, don’t miss this VB Live event.Read More
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Pandora launches Podcast Genome Project for personalized recommendations
Pandora will now offers podcast recommendations through its Podcast Genome Project, which uses AI to better understand each individual's taste in podcasts.Read More
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Pandora Stories takes you behind the scenes with artists like John Legend and...
Pandora Stories -- colorful soundbytes from the likes of John Legend, Daddy Yankee, and Perry Farrell -- launches today on Pandora.Read More
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You can now invoke Alexa on Windows PCs hands-free
Amazon rolled out an update to the Alexa for Windows app that lets users invoke the voice assistant hands-free, and that adds support for Pandora.Read More
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Pandora’s voice assistant launches for everyone
Voice Mode, Pandora's voice assistant, rolls out to Pandora app users on all platforms following a limited January launch.Read More
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Spruce Up wants to do for home decor what Pandora did for music
Home decor startup Spruce Up has launched an updated ecommerce platform that leverages machine learning to recommend goods. Read More
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Pandora doubles down on voice with interactive ads expansion and on-demand...
Pandora is launching its interactive voice-based advertising in beta, opening to more listeners and advertisers with new features thrown into the mix.Read More
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