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Kurt Hanson’s AccuRadio raises $2.5-million funding

Posted on September 5, 2014 by Brad Hill

Internet radio pioneer AccuRadio announced a $2.5-million investment from NantWorks LLC, headed by entrepreneur Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong. AccuRadio was founded by CEO Kurt Hanson, also RAIN News Founding Editor. Kurt Hanson began building AccuRadio in 2000. It was an experiment first, and became a hardy first-mover in what has evolved into a crowded field littered with music services that did not survive. Today’s press release notes that AccuRadio operates profitably. Continue Reading →

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T-Mobile adds six new music services to its free-data plan

Posted on August 27, 2014 by Brad Hill

T-Mobile today announced an expansion of its Music Freedom plan, in which smartphone subscribers get unmetered data streaming of music from partner sources. Six new services have been added to the original slate of services, announced in June. The newly added partners are AccuRadio, Black Planet, Grooveshark, Radio Paradise, Rdio and Songza. Detractors still wish for global access to data-free online music from any source. Continue Reading →

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AccuRadio is highest user-rated app on Android

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Brad Hill

AccuRadio, the Internet radio platform with over 900 home-curated genre stations, compiled user rankings in the Google Play store of Android music apps, and determined that AccuRadio is the highest-rated app among radio and music subscription apps. (Disclosure: AccuRadio CEO… Continue Reading →

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AccuRadio does a Christmas deep dive

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Brad Hill

Last week we noted that many online music services are lagging behind some terrestrial stations in pre-Thanksgiving holiday programming, even though adding it doesn’t displace any non-holiday music — a choice that broadcast stations must gamble on. AccuRadio dives deeply… Continue Reading →

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Global partnership puts Aha streaming radio into Mazda’s best-selling model

Posted on September 25, 2013 by Brad Hill

In-car infotainment platform Aha by Harman announced that the new 2014 Mazda3 (for American and Japanese markets, as well as select other North American and Asian countries) will offer access to Aha’s free service of more than 40,000 audio and… Continue Reading →

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Maloney named AccuRadio EVP/Programming

Posted on September 16, 2013 by Brad Hill

Long-time AccuRadio program director Paul Maloney has been promoted to the full-time position of Executive Vice President/Programming, AccuRadio CEO Kurt Hanson and COO John Gehron announced today. “For the past 13 years, Paul has skillfully managed one of the toughest… Continue Reading →

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