Back in early September, Pandora Media shares took a 22%, two-day tumble after the Wall Street Journal reported that Apple was planning to jump into the streaming music business where Pandora has been the dominant player.
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"Pandora's listeners want to have access to their personalized stations on a variety of devices, " said Jessica Steel, senior vice president, Business Development, Pandora.
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Jessica Steel, EVP of business development for Pandora Media Inc.
"We're thrilled that DISH is making Pandora available to their customers on a great new platform like the Hopper, " said Ian Geller, vice president of Business Development at Pandora.
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Zynga is in a slightly different business than LinkedIn or Pandora.
I've been keeping an eye on the prices of the business social network LinkedIn and Pandora, the internet streaming radio service, and wondering whether history is repeating itself.
As I said when discussing Pandora, a business, to gain these sorts of heady valuations, needs to have some sort of lock in, some uniqueness to it.
Just like Amazon mastered the business of personalized retail, Pandora the world of music and Netflix the silver screen, companies are emerging that attempt to personalize the news.
Pandora and the new business models emerging are all aimed at music lovers of all kinds so that we can choose custom services at negligible price points in all sorts of venues.
"We'd go out for a run and talk business issues and I'd lose my breath trying to answer, " says Matt Nichols, Pandora's director of search engine marketing.
Despite all these issues, I think the most important one is that Zillow is a fairly small business, at least when compared to other recent IPOs like HomeAway (Nasdaq:AWAY), Pandora (NYSE:P) and LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD).
Pandora shares are losing some ground this morning after Microsoft detailed plans to enter the streaming music business.
Internet music pioneer Pandora Media saw its stock price sliced by nearly 17% Friday on rumors Apple was considering entering its business.
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