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Slacker.com getting out of the music hardware business
Slacker, the company with Austin ties that focuses on music streaming, is discontinuing its G2 portable music player next year, the company’s president Jim Cady told the Wall Street Journal.
The music player, which competes with Apple’s iPod, MIcrosoft’s Zune and other portable music devices, will apparently be pushed to the side as the company focuses on its paid music streaming service, social networking (it recently introduced Twitter integration to its online service) and mobile apps for devices like the iPhone, BlackBerry and Sony Bravia TVs.
The G2 device was introduced in 2007, but was delayed until early 2008, when it finally began shipping to customers.
Slacker is based in San Diego, but has ties to Central Texas, including funding from Austin Ventures. It recently raised another $3 million in venture funding.
So long, G2. We’ll let you know if we hear more about what happened to Slacker’s hardware plans.
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