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- Online radio service Slacker gets USD5m
- San Diego-based internet radio service Slacker has received USD5m in bridge financing from existing backers Sevin Rosen Funds, Rho Ventures, Centennial Ventures, Mission Ventures and Austin Ventures. The company previously raised USD40m in Series B funding from Centennial Ventures, Mission...
- Articles 2009-01-29
- Motivating Slackers |Leila's House of Corrections
- How do you motivate a known slacker? By first looking in the mirror and admitting that some of your management practices may have allowed this employee to slide. Find out how to turn your laid-back, lackadaisical employee into a focused, valuable member of your team by being specific with...
- Videos 2009-04-14
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- Slacker Radio Takes on Pandora and Last.fm
- For us, the iPhone has already replaced our radio while driving. Thanks to a steady stream of podcasts and the Last.fm and Pandora applications, annoying DJs and endless commercials have become a thing of the past. Now, another streaming music app, Slacker Radio, which was already available for the Blackberry,...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Listen to Slacker Streaming Radio on Your BlackBerry
- I'm a longtime fan of Slacker, a Web-based radio service that creates custom stations based on your favorite artists. Until now, your only option for listening to Slacker on the go was Slacker's own portable player. But now BlackBerry users can get in on the music-streaming action: Slacker Radio is...
- Blog posts 2009-01-09
- A Changing of the Guard at Slacker Manager
- Since I started blogging about productivity, leadership, teamwork, and management, I've enjoyed reading Slacker Manager ("Paving the path of least resistance, so you don't trip and fall"). Sadly, David Zinger -- one of the dynamic duo who, along with Phil Gerbyshak, has provided the lion's share of...
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- Slacker's Still Raising Money?But Ditches Its Device In Favor Of Apps
- After raising over $70 million to develop and sell its G2 portable music device, music startup Slacker is giving up on it—choosing instead, to focus on building a mobile app-based streaming business. President Jim Cady, who’s been running the company since founder and CEO Dennis Mudd stepped down in...
- External links 2009-10-22
- Listen to Slacker Radio on Your iPhone
- Like music? Own an iPhone or iPod Touch? Today is your lucky day. Slacker Radio is now available for iPhone, putting custom stations and millions of songs in the palm of your hand. If this sounds a bit familiar, it's because Slacker -- which began life as...
- Blog posts 2009-01-16
- Slacker Giving Away Free BlackBerries
- Sure, you might be able to get the BlackBerry 8520 Curve for a penny over at Amazon.com, but Slacker is giving away BlackBerry 8300-series Curves for free. All you need to do is sign up for a new contract with AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, or Verizon Wireless. The free BlackBerries are...
- News items 2009-08-10
- Logitech Adds Squeezebox Support for Slacker Personal Radio Service
- FREMONT, Calif. -- Logitech (NASDAQ:LOGI) (SWX:LOGN) today announced that the Logitech[R] Squeezebox[TM] and Transporter[TM] network music players will support Slacker Inc.'s new Slacker Personal Radio service in the United States. Slacker Personal Radio enables listeners to create, edit and share Internet radio stations or personalize more than 100 professionally programmed...
- Research articles 2007-11-15
- Music Startup Slacker CEO Dennis Mudd Out; $70 Million and Counting
- Slacker, the heavily funded online music startup founded by former MusicMatch CEO Dennis Mudd, has disposed off of, well, Mudd, reports VentureWire. This comes as the music startup scene remains murky. The company, launched in 2006, has raised a whopping $70 million in funding, mainly to build a portable...
- External links 2009-08-21
- Ironically, Being a Slacker Leads to Burn-Out, Study Says
- If you were one of the many chronic procrastinators at university who swore you'd turn over a new leaf when you hit the workforce, psychologists have some bad news for you: studies suggest that the tendency to be a slacker actually bodes pretty badly for your career after graduation, and...
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- Editorial: Cable bullies score a win in federal court.(federal court rules in favor of Time-Warner Inc. and American Telephone and Telegraph Corp. in cable television suit)(Brief Article)
- Michael Powell's new job sounds like a slacker's dream come true: chief regulator at the Federal Communications Commission just when the government appears thoroughly disinterested in regulating. And in case Mr. Powell-a vocal fan of deregulation-n Michael Powell's new job sounds like a slacker's...
- Research articles 2001-03-12
- Michael Moore Launches 60-City Swing State Tour; College and NBA Arenas in 20 Battleground States to Feature Oscar-Winning Filmmaker
- NEW YORK, Sept. 23 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Calling it his "Slacker Uprising Tour" in an effort to get millions of traditional non- voters to the polls on Nov. 2, the Oscar-winning filmmaker of "Fahrenheit 9/11" and number 1 bestselling authNEW YORK, Sept. 23 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Calling it his "Slacker...
- Research articles 2004-09-23
- Internet Entrepreneur Is Off 'The Spot,' But Not Off The Idea.(Originated from The Orange County Register, Calif.)
- Apr. 8--With a shaved head, octagonal glasses and horrible posture, Scott Zakarin certainly doesn't look like a Father of New Media. In fact, he could be one of the slacker characters breezing through the Internet soap opera he created, "The Apr. 8--With...
- Research articles 1997-04-08
- What's the Most Unethical Thing You've Ever Done in Business?
- What's the Most Unethical Thing You've Ever Done in Business?RE: What's the Most Unethical Thing You've Ever Done in Business?Why not offer large sums of money for the nastiest story then you could contribute directly to your own subject? By its wording and positioning your request is an invitation to...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Improve Your Work Day with Free iPhone Music Apps
- Music. It keeps me sane. That’s why I’m thrilled that there are so many options for listening to music on the iPhone and iPod Touch. I’m not talking about music you buy, either. I mean free, streaming music over your 3G or Wi-Fi connection. Here are the best of the...
- Blog posts 2009-01-29
- Getting In: Using Strategy in the Admissions Process
- We're currently focusing on getting into grad school. To recap, we can divide the different requirements of the admissions process into two main categories -- what you can control and what you can't. Last time, we got the easy stuff out of the way: The application and the official undergraduate transcript....
- Blog posts 2007-09-19
- Record Your Greatness
- Next time you're up for a performance review, Slacker Manager reminds you to bring along a folder chock-full of praise for you and your work. Sure, you have to fill the folder up yourself, but it's a great way to remind bosses, clients, and even yourself that you're a good...
- Blog posts 2007-09-24
- Following the Links: 10 Ways to Make it Great
- There was a new link to Big Think this a.m., and I followed it and found a new review of 10 Ways to Make It Great by Phil Gerbyshak, who also writes a couple of blogs (on Slacker Manager this morning, the message is welcome to February -- have you...
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- Dealing with the Flu at Work
- Having just gotten my butt kicked by a virulent form of the flu that's making its way around San Francisco, I've been thinking a lot about sickness and productivity recently. It's a complicated issue. Certainly, there's the battle being waged between your desire to get work done and your desire...
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
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