{"id":146303,"date":"2015-11-17T07:59:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T05:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=146303"},"modified":"2015-11-17T08:54:48","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T06:54:48","slug":"pandora-buys-rdio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/146303-pandora-buys-rdio.html","title":{"rendered":"Pandora buys Rdio assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pandora has announced an agreement to acquire several key assets from Rdio, a pioneer in streaming music technology.<\/p>\n<p>This will accelerate the company\u2019s plan to offer fans greater control over their music, and strengthen Pandora\u2019s position in the market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether streaming through radio, on-demand, or in-person at live events, Pandora is building the definitive source for fans to discover and celebrate music,\u201d said Pandora.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to acquiring technology and intellectual property from Rdio, many members of Rdio\u2019s team will be offered roles with Pandora.<\/p>\n<p>The company expects to offer an expanded Pandora listening experience by late 2016, pending its ability to obtain licences.<\/p>\n<p>The purchase price is $75 million, subject to certain purchase price adjustments.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Rdio and Pandora<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/95661-rdio-shazam-partnership-extended-to-south-africa.html\">Rdio-Shazam partnership extended to South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/93827-rdio-vs-simfy-vs-rara-vs-deezer-in-south-africa.html\"><strong>Rdio vs Simfy vs Rara vs Deezer in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/93463-rdio-music-streaming-service-in-south-africa.html\"><strong>Rdio music streaming service in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pandora is acquiring several key assets from Rdio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":93465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[36,7929,7931],"class_list":["post-146303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-pandora","tag-rdio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146313,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146303\/revisions\/146313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}