News tagged with music recommendation

Finding good music in noisy online markets

In 2004, a trio of researchers at Columbia University began an online experiment in social-media marketing, creating nine versions of a music-download site that presented the same group of unknown songs in ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Matching fans to music tops record industry agenda

After a decade-long battle against file-sharing, music and technology giants are now pushing users to share to their hearts' content, with online music recommendations a key issue at the MIDEM trade fair that ...

Technology / Other

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Pandora sings happy tune: IPO fetches $16 a share

(AP) -- Pandora Media Inc. sold its initial public offering of stock at $16 per share late Tuesday, fetching twice as much as the popular but unprofitable Internet radio service expected less than two weeks ago.

Technology / Business

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pandora raises IPO offering price range

(AP) -- The popular Internet radio service Pandora raised the price range of its initial public offering on Friday by at least a third to between $10 and $12

Technology / Business

created Jun 10, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Pandora tunes up for IPO, looks to raise $100M

(AP) -- Popular Internet radio service Pandora is tuning up for an IPO later this year.

Technology / Business

created Feb 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Engineers use song-annotating algorithms to study music playlists (w/ Video)

Electrical engineers recently pitted Genius - the music recommendation system in Apple's iTunes - against two experimental music recommender systems. Genius appears to capture acoustic similarities among songs ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Google, MySpace, Facebook make music moves (Update 2)

(AP) -- Internet power players Google, MySpace and Facebook are adopting strategies to better compete in a music industry that is rapidly shifting online.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0