Slacker Radio Slacker Radio Slacker Radio is an online music streaming service available in the US and Canada. Listeners can access the service on the web and through mobile apps on multiple smartphones. It allows users to create and share customized music stations. Slacker allows users to customize one of their programmed stations (for instance, "Today's Hits") or start with music similar to an artist or song, and then customize that. Currently, Slacker has 420 expert-curated music stations. The company was founded in 2004 by Celite Milbrandt and Dennis Mudd who launched the company in March 2007. Dennis was the former CEO
Rdio and the aggregators BFM Digital, Catapult, CD Baby, Finetunes, INgrooves, and The Orchard. Rdio also offered social networking features, such as the ability to share songs, albums, and playlists with others on Rdio and social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. On November 16, 2015, Rdio filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in which they had to pay $200 million and announced the sale of certain intellectual property to Pandora Radio. The purchase price is $75 million in cash. Rdio was launched by Skype Technologies founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis on August 3, 2010. At the time they had to