Posts Tagged ‘Pandora’

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.

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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 floor was palpable. The Pandora executive team rang the opening bell, and a throng of employees and guests of the company (identifiable by their gold badges) mixed with the crowd of brokers and media at the Knight post where Pandora was being traded. Read more

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

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

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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 five key facts below:

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KHIJ and KVBE listeners will be able to choose in real time every song that plays on the air via Jelli’s website or Jelli’s free iPhone app. One station will play Pop music, and the other Rock music, but both will be branded “Jelli.”

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You can get more than just songs streaming from the net using Pandora now. Pandora now also offers streaming comedy stations.

Knock, Knock. . .

More than 700 comedians are represented in more than 10,000 comedy sketches. And, of course, you can stream these sketches to a mobile device running Pandora. Here’s how you do this:

- Point a desktop web browser at Pandora.com
- Select one or more of the new comedy stations
- Bring up the Pandara app on your mobile device

If Pandora was running (even idle) as a background process, you may need to restart the app to force it to refresh its station list. On my iPad this was done by double tapping the select button to bring up the background process list, long hold on Pandora icon, and then select it again to terminate the process. Then, start Pandora up again. This refreshed my station list and I was able to listen the Pandora’s comedy content.

Via The New York Times: Pandora Internet Radio Service to Offer Large Archive of Comedy Clips

Apple and Android users – put down your smartphones and read this. Could your favorite apps betray you?

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Music has always been a social concept — even if you’re swaying to the beats in solitary ecstasy with your headphones on, chances are you’ll probably tell a friend about this great song at some point. For this reason, music web sites and programs like Spotify have taken the social media plunge. Spotify seems to advertise Facebook as its biggest social media outlet, but Twitter may actually have more potential for this popular listening service. Read more

More than half of the smart phone apps tested by the Wall Street Journal found that they were sending users personal information such as location, age, gender, and a phone’s unique identifier to advertisers; often without user consent. Among the worst offenders were popular music streaming service Pandora and text messaging app TextPlus 4 from app developer GOGII.

The Journal tested 101 apps that run on Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android mobile platforms, and found that 56 of them sent a phone’s unique identifier to third parties without user consent, 47 transmitted a phone’s location, and five sent out user demographic information.

TextPlus 4 sent a phone’s unique ID number to eight different advertising companies, and also sent a phone’s zip code and user age and gender to two of them. The app is only available for iOS. Meanwhile the Android and iOS versions of Pandora sent information to eight third parties, included location data to seven of those, a phone’s unique ID to three of them, and demographic data to two.

The makers of TextPlus 4 and Pandora said that information sent to third parties is not connected to a user’s name, and that personal information such as age and gender is offered by users. However the most transmitted bit of information was the phone’s unique identifier, a number unique to every phone that can be used by advertisers to track each phone owner’s behavior.

“We use listener data in accordance with our privacy policy,” a spokeswoman for Pandora told the Journal. The policy states that the company will share “non-personally identifiable information.”

The biggest recipient of user data was Google, through its AdMob, AdSense, Analytics and DoubleClick subsidiaries. And apps on Apple’s iOS app store were more chatty with advertisers than on the Android marketplace, despite Apple’s more rigid approval process.