Posts Tagged ‘Pandora’

  Excuse me while I rip out my CD player.   Acura, Kia and the car stereo company Audiovox have partnered with Pandora to make listening to the Internet radio service while driving as automatic as listening to the radio.  Francisca Fanucchi, Pandora’s corporate communications and public relations manager was kind enough to share her thoughts [...]

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SoundCloud, a platform for recording and sharing music online, has just completed a round of funding led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers with participation from GGV Capital.  The dollar amount was undisclosed, but according to the press release, the funds were raised to allow for further expansion and scaling for mobile and international markets. [...]

It doesn’t matter that we’re coming up on the end of Q4. There’s A LOT happening in the social media IPO market right now! Check out these 10 companies:

Pandora has just launched a comprehensive redesign that makes the streaming radio/music discovery service, like a backward-time-traveling grandparent, both prettier and more functional than before. The new look (which provides a bit more context for the company’s rising IPO this past summer) is available to all Pandora users and adds improvements like streamlined cross platform [...]

Could this affect the quality of talent social media companies can hire later?

This diverse array of the greatest names in music will appear on one stage at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on two consecutive nights, September 23 and 24. The festival is a celebration of the official launch of the New iHeartRadio, Clear Channel’s free, industry-leading digital radio product. New iHeartRadio will combine more than 750 broadcast radio and digital-only stations from 150 cities with the ability to create custom stations, delivering listeners everything they want all in one fully integrated service.

Internet radio company Pandora went public this morning on the New York Stock Exchange. After the price was set at $16 a share last night, following a range of $10 to $12, the stock opened at $20 a share and went as high as $25 before pulling back to around $22. The excitement on the [...]

Why stop now? Pandora wants another $200 million from an IPO that could happen as early as tomorrow.

In only seven days, Pandora believes its valuation should be nearly 50 percent higher

It almost got lost in the shuffle, with all the talk of a possible $20 billion valuation for Groupon. But, there’s another tech IPO that’s moving forward. Pandora, the online music service, may be shooting for a valuation as high as $1.45 billion, according to the FT. So, what’s the story with Pandora? Check out [...]