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"Internet radio" is usually a misnomer, as well as an indicator of its ambition.

This is a critical point that keeps coming up about Pandora, a company whose pursuit of lowered royalties is becoming obsessive.

After Apple Inc. announced iTunes Radio last week, I watched a panel of experts on Bloomberg discuss its effect on Pandora Media Inc , as Pandora's stock was actually up following the announcement.

Late last year, I came out against co-founder Tim Westergren's blog post that detailed how much the company pays individual artists in royalties.

Blake Morgan's songs were played some 28,000 times over a 90-day period on Pandora, earning $1.62 in royalties.

Broadcast Music Inc , a songwriters' rights organization, is suing Pandora Media after the Internet radio company rejected a request to pay a higher license fee for playing songs across various devices, including mobile phones.

Pandora may have most of its business operations in the cloud, but now that it's bought a land-based radio station, it gets to play by different royalty rules, which could significantly lower its costs.

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's stock had its "outperform" rating restated by investment analysts at RBC Capital in a note issued to investors on Wednesday, Stock Ratings Network reports.

KXMZ 102.7 FM is an unremarkable radio station, playing adult contemporary music out of Rapid City, S.D., population 68,000.

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Pandora Media : While Apple's release of iTunes Radio will put pressure on Pandora, RBC Capital thinks that some of the impact from the new service may already be priced into Pandora's stock, and it notes that Pandora's service has more potential reach because it is available on platforms other than Apple.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013 Pre-open sentiment is on the weak side today, with markets apparently disappointed over lack of fresh action from the Bank of Japan .

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Apple Inc. used the tail end of the keynote address at its annual developers conference on Monday to quickly show off a new streaming radio service that is similar in concept to that of Pandora Media Inc. - but ties users into the Apple operating system universe.

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Is Apple poised to do in streaming digital music what it did so successfully in MP3 players, smartphones and tablets? Not bloody likely - Apple will be lucky if its poised-to-be-announced radio music streaming service - call it "iStream" since its name remains a mystery - gets 5% of the tiny music streaming industry.