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But total listener hours slipped from 5. Pandora will pay dividends to the holders of the preferred stock quarterly at an annualized rate of 7. But it took the company a year and a half to build that foundation into Pandora Premium , which launched in March.

With a focus on simplicity, Pandora hopes to compete with Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming services.

But its late start means it may need the extra cash to build out more attractive features and do heavy marketing to change what people think of when they hear Pandora. Pandora reportedly was approached for a takeover by Sirius XM radio , and was reaching out to other potential acquisition suitors, Bloomberg reported in December.

It beat analyst estimates in its Q4 earnings report in February, yet its share price still dropped 4 percent.

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With radio becoming merely a feature of other streaming services, Pandora must reinvent itself. That will take time and money, but also the kind of product innovation like the Music Genome Project that made it the premier online music app of the s.

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Posted May 8, by Josh Constine joshconstine. The KKR cash could help Pandora gain some momentum.

Here are the nuts and bolts of the deal: The new Pandora Premium on-demand streaming service. Crunchbase Pandora Founded Overview Pandora is an online platform and incubator that provides information related to technology, business, communication, and more. It provides users with information related to entrepreneurship, business, information technology, and communications.

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