The Android alarm, with the updated Clock app, can now wake you up using tunes from YouTube Music or Pandora streaming services.
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Spotify and Apple Music reach 51M paid subscribers in the US
Spotify and Apple Music clearly dominate the music streaming business in the United States, and they will only keep on growing more powerful
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T-Mobile goes Rock Star with free Pandora Plus and guaranteed concert tickets
The Pandora Plus subscription will last for a year while the Live Nation partnership, with big discounts on tickets, will go on for a few years.
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Pandora adds Premium Family Plan at affordable $14.99 monthly price
Just like top rivals Spotify and Apple Music, Pandora now offers a low-cost family subscription with unlimited skips, offline listening and no ads for up to six users.
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Getting limited access to Pandora Premium is now as easy as watching a 15-second ad
If you want to unlock a Pandora Premium music streaming session at no cost, all you need to do is watch a short video ad.
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Pandora Premium tries to beat Spotify and Apple Music at their own game
Pandora Premium arrives to the unlimited music streaming party a couple of years late, with personalized playlists as its strongest advertised point.
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Uber strikes the right note with its drivers by offering six ad-free months of Pandora
In the fierce battle for music streaming supremacy, the world’s most popular ridesharing service isn’t keen on taking sides, instead playing nice with both Spotify and Pandora. After letting riders assume backseat DJ duties via the former app for a couple of years now, Uber finally turns its attention to drivers as well, integrating the latter’s ad-free Internet radio resources directly into the Uber Partner app.All “partners” in the United States, Australia and New Zealand have to do is connect their phones to the car’s Bluetooth or AUX, set the stereo as needed, tap the ...
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Alexa-powered Amazon Tap gets discounted by 15 percent
Just now getting into the idea of having a voice-powered assistant ask you things? Maybe you’ve been looking into the Amazon Echo, but found it wanting in portability. Well, you can’t just order a tiny little Echo Dot right from Amazon — cruel irony will probably let you do so from eBay at a premium.How about an Amazon Tap? It ...
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Chromecast and Chromecast Audio can now hook you up with 2 free months of Pandora One
As if pricing the redesigned second-gen Chromecast digital media player and the all-new audio-only model at a measly $35 a pop wasn’t enough to guarantee Google record sales numbers in the fast-growing market segment, we’ve also frequently seen the two discounted, combined in compelling bundle deals, as well as offered with gratis premium content of various ...
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Apple Music is growing fast and Spotify is growing faster because of it
“It’s great that Apple is in the game.”That from Jonathan Forster, a Spotify vice president. The Swedish company has credited Apple Music — nearly a year old and with 13 million subscribers — with attracting new ears to streaming and helping the ecosystem grow in general.“Since Apple Music started we’ve been growing quicker and adding more users than ...
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Ad-supported music streaming revenue forecast to grow, despite fewer “freemium” options
There’s a clear migration being tracked from bought-and-owned media toward the current streaming models we have. Portability and unlimited variety beat out CDs (as well as smartphones, of course). But a split in this trend comes down between those who pay a subscription fee to music streaming companies for extra features and listeners who opt for a free lunch. Those music junkies are served ads during their listening session to help get revenue for Spotify, Pandora, Google and others.And ...
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Pebble updates watch firmware, apps on iOS and Android, adds Pandora watch app
As the launch of Android Wear draws closer, Pebble (the manufacturer of undeniably some of the best smartwatches on the market right now) is continuing to step up their game. Today, they’ve announced updates for the watch’s firmware, the companion Pebble apps on iOS and Android, and have announced the debut of the Pandora Internet radio app on their app store. The watch’s firmware has received a couple of minor, but indeed welcome, changes. First of all, you can now hop into ...
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Pandora still king of music streaming, iTunes Radio overtakes Spotify
Even though a lot of famous technology gurus, Steve Jobs included, considered that the whole concept of music streaming would never work as according to him, people want to “own their music”, lately the reality is different. Obviously at the time when Jobs said this, we didn’t even have 3G data speeds to make it possible, nor even smartphones. Today music streaming is a big thing, and if you’re guessing who owns it, the answers aren’t shocking. New statistics for 2014 claim that Pandora still owns music streaming, which is logical given the fact that ...
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The Pocketnow Weekly Podcast, Episode 037
We love us some new technology, and we certainly give it its fair shake on today’s episode of the Pocketnow Weekly. But every so often, you need to give a little lip-service to the tech of days gone by. The platforms and devices of yesteryear. That’s right: I’m talking about dead technology. It makes sense, then, that a man going by the twitter handle DeadTechnology is here to help us dust off those fond memories. In his inaugural visit to the Pocketnow Weekly, our own Adam Doud pulls back the veil of public apathy secrecy surrounding the phenomenon of the “webOS ...
The Pocketnow Weekly Podcast, Episode 036: An Experiment
The Pocketnow Weekly podcast is a labor of love for those of us who routinely grace its silvery sound waves. It takes a lot of effort and time to put the Weekly on the feeds every seven days, and we’re pretty proud of the listenership we’ve accrued since re-launching our podcast presence lo those many months ago. Since that reboot, the podcast has grown in scope and in refinement: we’ve added such luxuries as topic lists, time codes with jump points, and a rotating cast of ...