{"id":24248,"date":"2015-03-25T19:48:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T23:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf235\/?p=24248"},"modified":"2015-04-17T22:23:55","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T02:23:55","slug":"pandora-radio-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf235\/2015\/03\/25\/pandora-radio-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandora Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"
by\u00a0RICO PEDRAZA<\/pre>\n
\"Pandora<\/a>
Pandora Press Logo (courtesy of Pandora Pressroom) [1]<\/a><\/p><\/div>
\"Pandora
Pandora App Logo (courtesy of Pandora Pressroom) [2]<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
Headquarters
\n<\/strong><\/span>2101 Webster Street
\n16th Floor
\nOakland, CA 94612
\n(510) 451-4100
\nhttp:\/\/www.pandora.com<\/a><\/p>\n
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Company Overview
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
Pandora<\/a> is currently the largest online music streaming and internet radio company in the world with over 81.5 million users as of December 31st, 2014(3)<\/a>.\u00a0 The company\u00a0is an online music streaming service that provides its users with automated music recommendations based upon a song, artist, album, or genre being searched. \u00a0 This automation is powered by Pandora\u2019s service –\u00a0the Music Genome Project <\/a>– which gives human curated music recommendations for each individual.\u00a0 The company currently operates under two payment tiers. \u00a0A free tier allowing unlimited internet radio music streaming with restrictions on the number of song skips allowed per day, audio quality, and is fueled by advertisements between songs.\u00a0 Alternatively the paid tier \u201cPandora One<\/a>\u201d ($4.99 per month or $54.89 per year) (4)<\/a> offers ad-free listening, higher audio quality on desktop listening, and a higher number of daily song skips allowed.<\/p>\n
Key Executives<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t\t