Tag Archives: Pandora

About 557 days ago Internet and Online Business

Pandora: Half of U.S. Pays Nothing for Music

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Pandora’s CTO Tom Conrad just revealed a surprising bit of news: Each year, more than half of the U.S. pays nothing for music. Zip. Zero…you get the picture. Pandora wants to change that. READ MORE »

About 659 days ago Business Software

Assistly Now Offers Free Customer Service Software to SMBs

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If you’ve wanted to use Customer Relationship Management software but haven’t because you can’t afford the investment, now is a good time to try it out. Assistly, which provides cloud-based CRM and customer support software to the likes of Yelp, Etsy and Pandora, announced last week that it’s now giving any company a free (and full-featured) Full-Time Agent license along with version 2.0 of its SaaS software. The software is $1 an hour for each additional part-time agent, or $49 a month for every additional full-time agent. READ MORE »

About 684 days ago Blogging and Social Media | E-Commerce | Internet and Online Business

How This Year’s Tech IPOs Are Doing, and Who’s Next

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With several tech companies already having gone public and more companies planning to do so in the next six months, 2011 may just go down as the year of the tech IPO writes Leena Rao for  TechCrunch, who summarizes what’s happened so far and what to expect going forward. READ MORE »

About 700 days ago Apps | Cloud Computing

Spotify Valued at $1 Billion, Eyes U.S. Launch This Summer

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Following the success of Pandora’s IPO last week, London-based music streaming service Spotify hopes to achieve similar success when it debuts in the U.S. later this summer. Spotify, which allows users to listen to any artist, album, or genre on-demand, has just closed its latest funding round with $100 million and working on deals with the four major U.S. record labels and Facebook. READ MORE »

About 705 days ago Blogging and Social Media | Internet and Online Business | Web Analytics

Social Sites Reach New Heights

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Social networking sites are on the rise, but it’s the rate of this growth that is most surprising. In the last year alone, social networking use increased by 25 percent, and a new report from web analytics firm comScore says the average online user now spends one out of every six minutes on social sites. READ MORE »