An extremely popular Internet radio service has finally acknowledged two of the top social media sites. Thanks to a new feature, Pandora users can now easily spread the word (or note, as it were) about good music to their Facebook friends and Twitter contacts.
Pandora's music discovery app has returned to its rightful place atop the Apple App Store. Sirius XM Radio gave them a pretty good run in the music category, edging out Pandora for several weeks. Alas, it wasn't meant to be though.
Layoffs at Internet companies continue to be announced, with the latest coming from Internet radio site Pandora. Pandora's fate itself was in question not too long ago, but has recently found new hope and expects to survive after all.
There is new hope for Pandora and other webcasters, but any deal is far from done.
Pandora's obituary was all but written last month as SoundExchange called for higher royalty payments from the Internet Radio site, and others like it. But there is a little life in the site and in the industry yet.
The other day I posted an article about Pandora's probably upcoming demise as a result of a royalty rate hike put in place by SoundExchange, which represents record labels and the artists signed to them. If popular opinion around the 'net is any indication, the issue is a lot larger than Pandora shutting down. An Industry in Peril
Pandora.com, an Internet radio site that I am personally quite fond of is hitting a rocky patch (if you're not familiar with Pandora, WebProNews recently chatted its CEO Tim Westergren, so check that out).
As the search engine world gets ready for its big-deal conference, Search Engine Strategies: San Jose in August, we tapped the deep intellect of Pandora CEO Tim Westergren for his thoughts on the future of search.
Music has to be one of the most social forms of content — most of us, even if we listen to our favourite music alone, like to talk about it, tell others what we like and why. That’s why things like Last.fm and Pandora are so popular (although I can’t use Pandora because I’m Canadian and they recently blocked us Canucks for licensing reasons).
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