SAN FRANCISCO--Tim Westergren could be thought of as a modern-day Santa Claus with a bag full of compact discs you've probably never heard of. The founder of Pandora, a 7-month-old, so-called ...

Pandora might be well behind Spotify when it comes to streaming music, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t hard at work improving the service. Last year the company bought pieces of Rdio after that service ...

Pandora’s long-awaited alternative to Spotify has arrived today. The company this morning announced the debut of a new paid tier to its streaming service called Pandora Premium, which offers a ...

Tim Westergren's brain-child, "The Music Genome Project," sounds vaguely "Monty Python"-ish—a system by which trained musician-analysts break down songs into hundreds of categories to find which tunes ...