Pandora late yesterday announced the appointment of former Madrona Venture Group and Microsoft exec Brian McAndrews as CEO, president, and chairman. He immediately succeeds Joe Kennedy, who in March announced his intention to step down. McAndrews was recognized as Advertising… Continue Reading
Yesterday we extensively covered (here) Apple’s iPhone event and the company’s announcement that iTunes Radio will become available in the U.S. on September 18 (one week from today). While CEO Tim Cook and other presenters focused more on the new… Continue Reading
Online social music service Turntable.fm announced in its blog that it is shutting down its Piki service soon. Piki is the “more laid-back” (as the founders describe it) version of the Turntable service; “a Pandora-like, human-powered radio app combined with… Continue Reading
Studio Orca is the Brooklyn-based five-employee team behind the music programming for Chipotle’s 1,400 stores, and Chris Golub its founder. Business Insider and the San Francisco Chronicle’s SFGate website has published a short profile of the company. While bits about… Continue Reading
Internet radio service Songza completed a $4.7M round of private equity funding yesterday, almost exactly two years after receiving $2M in venture funds (as reported in CrunchBase). Yesterday’s commitment will be invested in scaling Songza’s native sponsoring platform, in which… Continue Reading
Edison Research offers some insight into the habits of at-work Internet radio listeners today. Edison has posted some graphs of its findings from the “What’s Working at Work” study (sponsored by Radionomy). Edison found that among the most popular reasons… Continue Reading
Great wisdom and insight often comes from your readers (we’re reminded of that almost daily). Today, a Digital Music News commenter very nicely summarized and aggregated seven advantages pundits believe the new Apple iTunes Radio service has over what will… Continue Reading
Today during its iPhone press event, Apple announced its iTunes Radio webcasting service will go live to the public when the new mobile operating system, iOS 7, becomes available on September 18. As we’ve previously reported, iTunes Match customers (who… Continue Reading
from today’s early edition: Today’s the big day Apple is expected to launch (in the U.S. only) the long-awaited iTunes Radio webcasting service (at 1pm ET, 10am PT). We’ll be following live-blogs from sources like Mashable here and GigaOm here.… Continue Reading
Whether by coincidence, or as deliberate attempts to steal a bit of the spotlight on “Apple event day” (arguably a national holiday for the technorati), iHeartRadio and Google introduced updates to their Internet radio products. iHeartRadio, Clear Channel’s broad aggregation… Continue Reading
A blog called Music Machinery has published charts of Google search trends for several major online music services, which indicate which are growing in popularity, and those whose best days appear to be behind them. The graphs represent trends in… Continue Reading
Apple tomorrow will hold its press event at which (most expect) it will unveil its new iPhone models. Shortly thereafter, the new mobile operating system will go live, and with it, the long-awaited iTunes Radio Internet radio service (more in… Continue Reading