Pandora.com is a leading music streaming radio network on the internet.
Pandora offers music search and internet radio streaming globally not until 2009 where they limited the streaming to US-based visitors after issues with RIAA and Copyright Royalty Board.
Pandora is a greek word which means "all-gifted" and was based on the Greek Mythology character named "Pandora".
It was offered publicly under the Music Genome Project which was started in January 6, 2000. Music Genome Project was founded by Tim Westergren.
Pandora has a database of more than 600,000 songs organized by musicians and music-based individuals.
It has 7 million registered users and generates over a billion pageviews.
Its major competitors are Last.fm and Blip.fm.
