Slacker Radio of MusicMatch, which was purchased by Yahoo Music and became known as Yahoo! Music Radio. The current CEO is Duncan Orrell-Jones, formerly of Nintendo of America and Disney Interactive Media Group, Asia Pacific. In September 2007, the service finalized its deals with four major labels: Sony BMG Music Entertainment, EMI, Universal, and Warner; it also announced deals with thousands of indie labels. In 2008, Slacker released the Slacker Portable Player, available in 2GB, 4GB, and 8GB capacities. On January 9, 2008, the Slacker Portable Player received Laptop Magazine's Best of CES Portable Audio/Video Player Award. On September 16, 2008, Slacker
Criticism of Spotify an apology on the Spotify blog by Ek, in which he wrote that "We should have done a better job in communicating what these policies mean and how any information you choose to share will – and will not – be used", along with details on what features the permissions would enable. An updated privacy policy, with "clearer language" focused on helping users, rather than lawyers, understand its contents, was rolled out in September 2015. In August 2015, "Billboard" reported that Spotify was among the streaming services influenced by "pay for play", in which labels pay for songs to be