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IBM Remains Spineless as 31 More Companies Oppose Trump’s Muslim Ban [Updated With a Statement From the Collaborators]

The list of companies opposing President Trump’s discriminatory Muslim travel ban has grown. Late yesterday, 31 companies added their names to an amicus brief opposing the ban, claiming that it hurts business. The total is now 127 companies, but there’s still one high profile tech company that hasn’t grown a backbone: IBM. The new companies…

A New Video Teases the Natural Beauty of Disney’s Upcoming Avatar Land

Though we’re still a few years away from seeing James Cameron’s Avatar back on the big screen, 2017 will start to ease the franchise back into popular culture. Most significantly, Pandora: The World of Avatar will be opening at Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park. A new video takes fans behind the scenes. It’s our best…

Pandora Needs a Miracle, Settles for Questlove Instead

Pandora is trying valiantly to stay afloat in a sea filled with competitors like Spotify and Apple Music, and now the company has tapped music legend Questlove to help rescue it from the murky depths of irrelevance. Following the news the platform is trying to add an on-demand streaming component, the New York Times reports…

Say Goodbye to Rdio By Lamenting Your Poor Music Choices

Last month, Rdio unexpectedly announced that it’s shutting down service and handing over the keys to Pandora. Existing subscriptions are rapidly dying off, which means it’s time to lament all the poor life choices you made with Rdio’s help. https://gizmodo.com/rdio-is-being-acquired-by-pandora-1742863433 On a goodbye page, Rdio has provided a link to export your favourites, playlists, downloads…

Pandora Aims to Beat the Boredom With Its New Thumbprint Radio Station

Faltering internet radio Pandora’s newest effort to reinvent itself is a newly personalized radio station called Thumbprint Radio, which is based on all of the thumbs you’ve ever given the service. Pandora has been in the streaming music game a very long time, and though it’s apparently losing ground to competitors like Spotify and Apple…

James Cameron Says That Avatar 2 Will Make Sure Avatar Wasn’t A Big Fluke 

James Cameron provided an update on the sequels to his 2009 film, Avatar, noting that he wanted to make sure that the first film “wasn’t just some big fluke”. In speaking with Entertainment Weekly, he noted that the process to bring the films to the screen was just as challenging as the first, and that…

Rdio Will Be Cancelling Subscriptions Starting Tomorrow

As you’ve probably heard if you’re an Rdio user, the music-streaming service is shuttering its doors. The fate of the company’s assets is clear—sold for $75 million to Pandora—but the wind-down process has now been outlined. https://gizmodo.com/rdio-is-being-acquired-by-pandora-1742863433 Effective the 23rd November, Rdio will stop accepting new subscriptions, and begin cancelling new accounts. Users’ accounts will…

Here’s How to Export Your Rdio Playlists

The news that Pandora is buying bankrupt Rdio is very sad indeed, and leaves many of us wondering what will happen to the Dad Rock playlists we spent years perfecting. Here’s a way to export them, for now. Frank Chimero posted a Chrome plugin that you can use to export your Rdio playlists as well…

Rdio Is Being Acquired By Pandora

Whoa, this is surprising news: The music streaming site Rdio is filing for bankruptcy protection and handing over key assets to competitor Pandora. Pandora is paying $75 million in a deal that include Rdio’s tech and intellectual property. From the release: In addition to acquiring technology and intellectual property from Rdio, many members of Rdio’s…

The geniuses behind Serial just announced that the podcast’s second season will debut on Pandora as well as iTunes. That’s good news for anybody that wants to binge-listen on a road trip without the hassle of downloading every episode! Contact the author at [email protected]. Public PGP key PGP fingerprint: 91CF B387 7B38 148C DDD6 38D2…

Pandora Has to Stump Up $90M For Its Use of Pre-1972 Songs

Earlier this year, the Record Industry Association of America began to pursue Pandora on behalf of record labels to seek royalties for the use of tracks recorded before 1972. Now, it’s reached a settlement that will see Pandora stump up $90 million for using the songs. Federal copyright law covering music actually only applies to…

Pandora Just Bought Ticketfly For Nearly Half a Billion Dollars

Your favorite internet radio service will soon make it easier to buy concert tickets. Pandorajust bought Ticketfly, a Ticketmaster competitor, for $450 million. Why? Because it’s a great idea. Pandora’s been scrambling to grow and diversify its offerings to music lovers for a while now. In the past year, the company’s bought created a data…

Pandora Really Wants Some Attention, Offers Ad-Free Listening For a Day 

Pandora is 10 years old and to celebrate, it’s holding “Listener Love Day.” Don’t worry, it just sounds creepy—it’s actually only a free pass to try out Pandora without commercials for a day. The no-commercial listening day has already started and will be over at 12AM Eastern Time Thursday. But starting tomorrow, if you pay…

Pandora has released an app for Google Glass that will let you control your music with voice commands and touch gestures. You can also access your radio stations and create new stations using voice. [Pandora Blog]

Why the Future of Music Is All Bundled Up With Other Services

Today, Sprint launched a partnership with Spotify, which offers special deals on the premium version of the music service to Sprint subscribers. That’s great because it’ll gets you a marginally lower price for a great music service—but it’s also the beginning of what could one day make streaming music services financially sustainable: bundle deals. Yup,…

Pandora has announced that its One subscription plan, which provides an ad-free version of the streaming service, will jump in price to $5 for new users, and its annual subscription option will be scrapped. Existing users will continue to pay $4. (For now.)

Last week, we learned that digital music sales dropped for the first time since iTunes in 2013. Thanks to Billboard and Nielsen’s fresh year-end music report, we now know that there was significant 32 percent uptick in music streams in 2013. This doesn’t prove that Spotify and the like are killing music sales, but it…

Google Chromecast continues to improve piece by piece; the streaming dongle added Pandora today to its small but scrappy stable of apps.

iTunes Radio Isn’t For You. It’s For Apple.

iTunes Radio is years in the making, and today, it finally lands on millions of devices via iOS 7 and the newly updated iTunes 11.1. Like anything that has been predicted and anticipated for ages, intrigued users will dive in, and in all likelihood, millions upon millions of them will become regular users. They shouldn’t,…

Pandora’s adding a sleep timer to its Android and iOS app update. The new feature (found in the options drawer) lets you shut off your stream after 15, 30 or 60 minutes, so your data plan and sweet tunes aren’t wasted on deaf ears. [Pandora]