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Pandora Founder Reveals Big Earnings And High Fees For Musicians Online

Pandora pays over 2,000 artists more around $10,000 a year, and over 800 make $50,000. Top-tier artists like Adele are in the $1 million range, while others are tripling that sum. Not bad, in other words, especially since this is only taking into account Pandora payments, not those from Rhapsody, Spotify, or any other online streaming service. In fact, Pandora only accounts for about 6.5% of all online radio.

 

Apple Seeks to Create Pandora Rival

Apple is in talks to license music for a custom-radio service similar to the popular one operated by Pandora Media, in what would be a bid by the hardware maker to expand its dominance in online music.

 

Pandora Slides; Report Facebook To Launch Music Service

Pandora Slides; Report Facebook To Launch Music Service

Pandora shares are trading sharply lower Wednesday after CNBC reported that Facebook plans to unveil plans for a rival online music service at the upcoming F8 developers conference on September 22. My colleague Nicole Perlroth notes this morning that Facebook is expected to unveil integration partnerships with the online music services Spotify, MOG and RDIO. ...

 

Pandora's stock retreats to below IPO price

Buyer's remorse already may be setting in for some investors in Internet radio station Pandora Media....

Senh: The company hasn't turned a profit, but people are still investing?

 

Pandora IPO Terms Put Company at $2.56 Billion

Pandora IPO Terms Put Company at $2.56 Billion

Pandora set terms for its initial public offering that value the Internet radio company at about $2.56 billion, in the latest test of investors' appetite for fast-growing Web companies.

 

Dating App Pulls In Facebook Data, Funding From Playdom Chairman And Others

Here's something different from the world of online dating. "Wings," a Facebook app from a company called Triangulate, pulls in data from your account and analyzes and uses what it finds to populate your dating profile page. You can also opt to let Wings access data from your other social and media accounts on Netflix, Twitter, Pandora or Foursquare. It was built around the concept that actions speak louder than words.

Senh: Wings has an interesting concept, but there are probably privacy concerns. I'm not sure people would be willing to let this app pull in their private information from various social networking sites to get a date. It's kinda creepy. It's good concept, just not sure, with the recent flare-up from Facebook users regarding privacy settings changes, if people will actually their personal info to be sliced and diced by a third-party app.

 

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