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...Facebook v YouTube: contrasting approaches The music business has been intermittently at odds with technology platforms for decades, since digital piracy ravaged the sector’s traditional business model....
...Pandora Media has named Roger Lynch, the founding chief executive of Sling TV, as its new chief executive....
...The global music business has returned to growth as streaming companies, which include YouTube, Deezer, Amazon and Pandora, have attracted more than 100m subscribers....
...“The real concern for most companies contemplating an IPO isn’t the challenge of going public, it is the obligations and opportunities that come with being public,” said Lise Buyer, a partner at Class V...
...Pandora, the other major independent streaming company, this week stepped up its hunt for a buyer amid deepening losses. Additional reporting by Nicole Bullock...
...Streaming is the industry’s latest white knight but after decades of grappling with pirates, new technologies and evaporating sales, music executives know there will be twists to come....
...On paper, the new class of stock, whose value is tied to a large part of Dell’s investment in data centre technology company VMware, will be worth even more than the shares sold at the time of Facebook’s...
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...Pandora, the online radio group, has close to 80m active users....
...But the objectives of the technology group and its partners are not perfectly aligned....
...In an attempt to fend off Apple and other rivals such as Google and Deezer, a French streaming service, Spotify plans to use the proceeds of the fundraising to invest in technology and media content, including...
...Its features incorporate elements from predecessors including Spotify, Pandora, SoundCloud and YouTube — not to mention traditional broadcast radio such as the BBC, from which it poached DJ Zane Lowe....
...Pandora, the streaming radio service, has 80m free users and 3.5m pay, he says, while YouTube has 1bn users any month and barely any pay....
...Devices of all kinds, including wearable technology, are a critical battleground for streaming media companies, said Paul Verna, an analyst at eMarketer....
...Mr Carter is known to have had discussions with a number of technology companies before he acquired Aspiro, say several people familiar with the matter....
...The trio will challenge not only Spotify, whose paid streaming service has more than 10m subscribers, but also Pandora and Soundcloud....
...complicity of many western technology companies in surveillance....
...Twitter has been one of the most acquisitive technology companies, snapping up start-ups ranging from Vine, the six-second video clip service, to analytics companies that can enhance its offering to advertisers...
...The number of paying customers has ballooned to 28m last year from 8m in 2010, with subscription revenues reaching $1.11bn, and some of the largest technology and media companies are investing in the services...
...Pandora, the US internet radio service with 77m listeners, has proved that people are willing to listen to older tracks when presented in well-curated playlists....
...Google has also been adding support for more online services, including Netflix, YouTube, Hulu Plus, Pandora and Google Play Music....
...In 2009 it acquired Lala, a music streaming service, and last year launched iTunes Radio, which competes with elements of Beats, as well as more established players such as Pandora....
...In the battle between old and new media, Time Warner’s premium cable channel HBO still rakes in more money and global subscribers but television streaming service Netflix is quickly gaining ground, writes...
...Through the first dotcom boom, Nasdaq was the dominant venue for most technology and internet listings but NYSE has closed that gap in recent years, gaining the business of LinkedIn, Yelp and Pandora....
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