Don't encourage him Otone.
I think SRK was referring to her eyebrows as the something furry.
Julie
Julie
Please cover you eyes when viewing this thread...there is nothing that a lady needs to see here!!!
JS
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April 6, 2011 9:00 AM EDT
Shares of Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) are rising ahead of Wednesday morning's opening bell as an analyst at Gabelli upgraded the stock earlier. The stock last traded at $1.79, up 0.85 percent from Tuesday's closing price.
Gabelli lifted its investment rating on Sirius XM shares from Hold to Buy. Notably, the firm has had a Hold rating on Sirius shares since November 9 of last year.
http://www.streetinsider.com/Hot+Upg...y/6413803.html
man, this litigation overhang is really killing us, huh?
please, somebody else . . . hurry up and sue us!
April 6, 2011
Arbitron and Edison Research have released their new national survey, The Infinite Dial 2011: Navigating Digital Platforms. Among the notable highlights of the results was the percentage of Americans age 12+ who have a smartphone has more than doubled in the past year, from 14 percent to 31 percent of the population.
Among the many other findings:
• Facebook is now being used by a majority of all Americans age 12 and over (51 percent); this number was only eight percent when Arbitron/Edison Research first measured the social media phenomenon in 2008.
• A majority of American households now have two or more computers (51 percent); as compared to 24 percent of households in 2002.
• Usage of online radio is up significantly, with weekly usage of all forms of online radio having doubled in the last five years; self-reported weekly time spent with online radio is now nearly 10 hours (9 hours 47 minutes).
• Daily time spent with TV, Radio and the Internet combined has increased by 20 percent in the last ten years, with self-reported daily usage now at 8 hours 11 minutes compared to 6 hours 50 minutes in 2001.
• Just under one-third of all Americans (31 percent) have plugged an MP3 player such as an Apple iPod into their car stereo systems.
• One in ten Americans report listening to Pandora Internet Radio in the week before they were surveyed.
• Among the 81 percent of American households with Internet access, two-thirds now have a Wi-Fi network installed.
• More than one-tenth of all cell phone owners have listened to online radio streamed in their cars by connecting their phones to their car stereo system.
http://www.fmqb.com/article.asp?id=2154348
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In the SEC filing, Pandora suggested that privacy controls could hinder its ability to gather data on its customers, and thus hurt its advertising-based model. "Restrictions on our ability to collect, access and harness listener data ... would in turn limit our ability to stream personalized music content to our listeners and offer targeted advertising opportunities to our advertising customers, each of which are critical to the success of our business," the company said.
http://www.fmqb.com/article.asp?id=2153392
With funding for public radio under threat in Washington, perhaps one solution for NPR would be to change its stand on what it allows Sirius XM Radio to broadcast. CEO Mel Karmazin says his company is prepared to spend “a fair amount of money” to add NPR flagship shows “All Things Considered” and “Morning Edition” to its two public radio channels.
http://www.insideradio.com/
It is only possible to have 26 companies trade on the New York Stock Exchange with a single letter as the ticker symbol and they are generally huge companies. For example, C is Citigroup and T is AT&T. Now the letter P is going to be awarded to a relatively tiny start-up: Pandora Media.
The surprising ticker was disclosed in an update to Pandora’s $100 million IPO. That’s a tiny float in NYSE terms, making it all the more unusual that the exchange would hand over a single-letter ticker to the young and small Internet radio company. The letter P has been held in reserve by the NYSE since Phillips Petroleum merged with Conoco in 2002 and the merged company, ConocoPhillips, took the symbol COP.
The IPO prospectus update revealed that Pandora’s full year revenues for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2011 were $137.8 million, up 149.6% from $55.2 million the previous year. Advertising revenues rose 138% to $119.3 million, while subscription revenues were up 265.6% to $18.4 million. The company cautioned in its prospectus to potential investors that the growth rate will likely slow as the service matures.
http://www.rbr.com/radio/pandora-med...ck-ticker.html