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So, had Pandora Radio agreed to the original deal, they would’ve received $15 per share. Now, with SiriusXM, they may get much, much less per share. In an interview with CNBC Squawk Alley, Pandora Radio CEO Tim Westergren shared the magical way the company would finally make a profit. Step 1: Get subscribers. Step 2: […]
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After months of speculation, Live365 comes back in full force. Following a denial from the US government to lower small webcasters’ rates, Live365 closed its doors over a year ago. The elimination of the Small Webcaster Settlement Act of 2009 caused royalty payments for webcasters to suddenly spike. However, following a teaser site earlier this […]
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Net neutrality provisions crafted under the Obama Administration are now getting dismantled. Today, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved a measure that would wipe out almost all of the provisions adopted in 2015. It’s the first step in a massive rollback of Obama-era net neutrality provisions. This morning, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved a measure […]
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Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell now joins a growing list of grunge pioneers who have tragically passed away. At midnight, Detroit Police Department officers responded to a 911 call from the MGM Grand Casino. Donate Freeman, a Detroit PD spokesman, only said that the unidentified white male victim, born July 20, 1964, had apparently committed suicide. When […]
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Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell now joins a growing list of grunge pioneers who have tragically passed away. At midnight, Detroit Police Department officers responded to a 911 call from the MGM Grand Casino. Donate Freeman, a Detroit PD spokesman, only said that the unidentified white male victim, born July 20, 1964, had apparently committed suicide. When […]
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So, does Snap have a Snapchat-like functionality that erases key user metrics forever? Investors punished Snap following the company’s first financial report last week. Citing weakening Snapchat daily active user growth, the company lost $2 billion for the first quarter of 2017. In after-hours trading, the company’s stock valuation went down $6 billion. Rough week, […]
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In true whack-a-mole style, with ExtraTorrent down and out, users have immediately flocked to other illegal torrent sites. Following an extended downtime earlier this week, ExtraTorrent finally shut down for good. Website owner SaM didn’t specify why. He only said, “It’s time we say goodbye.” The world’s second-largest torrent indexing site leaves behind millions of […]
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One of the world’s top illegal torrent “indexing” sites has gone gently into the good night. On Monday, Extratorrent went down for emergency maintenance. The site came back online the following morning. However, a new message on the website has signaled that the website has taken a dirt nap. The message on all website mirrors […]
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As Spotify’s revenue goes up, artist per-stream and revenue payouts are going way, way down. And here’s the data to prove it. Two years ago, in a funding round, investors valued Spotify at $8 billion. In the latest round, investors pushed that number above $13 billion. Sounds like some serious growth. Yet investors can’t ignore […]
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Is the internet truly ready for high-fidelity streaming? Are our wallets? At launch, Tidal became one of the first streaming services to support high-fidelity audio streaming. The service boasted that consumers could better listen to their music. According to Tidal, consumers would immediately tell the difference. There was just one problem: high quality audio streaming […]
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