The Slacker portable music player became available for pre-order today, giving people a portable version of the company's free online music streaming service, which like Pandora, lets you create ...

Following the release of the Slacker Portable, we sat down with seasoned digital music vet Jonathan Sasse, Slacker’s vice president of marketing and former CEO of iRiver America, to get his take on ...

Slacker, a portable music player/radio service that some have billed an iPod-killer (though the killer phrase is getting bothersome; Nokia is prepping an iPhone killer, Tube, for example), announced ...

A new digital music service is emerging from stealth mode, and looks like it it not only wants to take on Apple’s iTunes music service and iPod media player, but also take a stab at online music ...

Slacker has always been something like the Rodney Dangerfield of music services — it can’t get no respect. It has been around since 2006, offering satellite radio to start (alongside some ill-fated ...

Canadian Music Week (CMW), the country's biggest music business event, has a new title sponsor: America's Slacker Radio, an interactive internet radio service available in both the U.S. and Canada… By ...

Slacker, the popular Internet radio platform with more than two million songs, has recently announced a partnership with a new music service called Hello Music. It’s significant in that the ...

Six years after launch, Slacker Radio has unveiled a new, overhauled Slacker; full of new bells and whistles to compete head-to-head with streaming radio leader Pandora–as well as Spotify and Rdio.

Slacker, the critically praised interactive radio service our readers helped us discover in '07, plans to launch an on-demand subscription service combining elements of Pandora, Rhapsody and Spotify ...

Slacker Radio, an online music streaming outfit, has agreed to be acquired by LiveXLive Media Inc. for $50 million. The deal is contingent upon LiveXLive completing a pending public stock offering, ...

Way back in March of 2010, nifty Internet radio service Slacker began demoing features for on-demand listening, putting it more squarely in competition with Rhapsody, Napster, and other ...

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