Music service Pandora is set to introduce its stock to the public tomorrow, becoming one more in a series of social networking and online service companies going with an IPO. Pandora isn’t specifically an iOS company, of course, given that its music service runs both through browsers and on a number of platforms.
But the company’s iOS app has helped its profile. It’s consistently stayed one of the top free apps on the App Store. The company’s offering 14.7 million shares initially.
Pandora’s future wasn’t ever in actual jeopardy, but certainly the value of the company’s app was in question during the lead-up to last week’s Apple keynote at WWDC. For a while, iCloud was rumored as being an iTunes streaming service like Pandora, allowing you to listen to your music collection through any iOS device.
Those rumors turned out to be untrue so far. iCloud and iTunes Match are only designed to help you sync your iTunes songs across devices, not listen to them remotely. For those whose music collections are too big to fit on an iOS device, Pandora is still one of the main ways to listen to extra music.
[via Mashable]
Pandora Media offering IPO tomorrow originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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