Rdio Hulu. On March 14, 2014, Rdio acquired Indian Music streaming service Dhingana, to push global expansion. On June 30, 2014, Rdio acquired the social music discovery service TastemakerX. The entire TastemakerX team joined Rdio with TastemakerX CEO Marc Ruxin becoming the new COO. On November 16, 2015, it was announced that Pandora Radio would acquire Rdio for $75 million in cash. Rdio ceased streaming music on December 22 the same year. Launched in 2011, Rdio's API allowed developers to add music to a web or mobile application with the ability to search, access, and play all of the artists, songs,
Slacker Attempts to track down such evaders were called "slacker raids". During World War I, U.S. Senator Miles Poindexter discussed whether inquiries "to separate the cowards and the slackers from those who had not violated the draft" had been managed properly. A "San Francisco Chronicle" headline on 7 September 1918, read: "Slacker is Doused in Barrel of Paint". The term was also used during the World War II period in the United States. In 1940, "Time" quoted the U.S. Army on managing the military draft efficiently: "War is not going to wait while every slacker resorts to endless appeals." The shift