' No mercy for Pandora Radio personnel '

Tech December 4, 2015 19:35

- This streaming radio service no longer suffer the long life was, it was immediately after the takeover of the company by Pandora already clear. But according to VentureBeat looks also to the staff of Rdio bleak. At least half of all Rdio employees may look for another employer.

In total 123 people to abandon the field of Radio. The streaming service was recently for $ 75 million bought by Pandora. This company seems to have made the acquisition primarily to get certain techniques in hands, Pandora is in fact still was not a full-fledged streaming services like Rdio, but like an online radio station.Rdio was until recently one of the larger players in the streaming market, but the company was not able to win the battle against Spotify and Deezer. The arrival of Apple Music made ​​the outlook for Rdio completely hopeless, as it turns out. Likely to close within a few weeks the plug from Rdio.