One of the many reasons that T-Mobile has become such a force in the mobile industry over the past several years is because it gives so much away to its users free of charge. T-Mobile Tuesdays have featured freebies from the likes of Adidas, Burger King, MLB, Live Nation, and Shell, and this month, Pandora …
Amazon’s Alexa-powered devices are certainly the market leaders in the smart speaker category. And the more time that passes, the more useful they seem to get, thanks to developers bringing new “skills” to the devices — and even tech giants like Microsoft letting Alexa access their key services and features. To that second point, Microsoft …
It’s the perfect climate for big deals and it looks like another media company is looking to seize the opportunity. SiriusXM on Monday morning announced that it plans to acquire Pandora in an all-stock transaction that values the company at $3.5 billion. Shares of Pandora were up more than 8% in pre-session trading on the …
Without any fanfare or even a news release to go along with it, Pandora launched a new Premium Family Plan this week, allowing up to six individual accounts to access the service’s Pandora Premium features for $14.99 a month (or $164.89 a year). Both Spotify and Apple Music have offered similar family plans for years, …
Though music services like Spotify and Apple Music tend to garner the most attention in the tech press, it’s sometimes easy to forget that Pandora is not only alive and kicking, but still extremely popular. In fact, one survey we saw earlier this year found that Pandora was actually used more often than Apple Music …
Last October, Pandora decided that the brand was in need of a revamp. So, as tech companies are prone to do, the music streaming company rolled out a brand new logo. And, as tech companies are also prone to do, the new logo design was accompanied with a healthy dose of marketing jargon.
Although it isn’t as popular as Spotify (yet), Apple Music has apparently done a better job of satisfying paying customers. This week, J.D. Power shared the results of its first streaming music satisfaction survey, and Apple Music came out on top.
Apple was the latest big company to dive head-first into the streaming music market, shaking things up and reportedly pulling subscribers away from some of its smaller rivals in the process. But Apple Music, Spotify and the rest of the current crop of on demand music services will seemingly soon have some new competition that …
Since launching a few weeks ago, Apple Music has been subject to both a lot of love and hate. While Apple’s nascent music service gets a lot of things right, the software, both in iOS and on the desktop version of iTunes, remains plagued by an abundance of frustrating bugs and inconsistent UI design choices. …
Pandora is a great option for people looking to stream endless custom radio stations based on a song or artist of their choice. Of course, not everyone wants to pay $5 a month or deal with the constant advertisements that play in between songs with Pandora’s free streaming option. Thanks to some handy coding and Soundcloud’s massive …
