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It is Friday, September 28th, and we're talking about the marriage of two tech companies and a very public separation.

I'm your host, Dool Lewis, and I'm joined on Skype by senior tech specialist, Evan New.

Evan, what did you think of that intro? Little drama, little intrigue?

Yeah, a little, I like the marriage and the separation play. Yeah, you know, I try to be a little

quipy here. So today we're going to be talking about the recently announced Serious

XM Pandora deal and the departure of Instagram co-founders from Facebook. Why don't

we start out with the happy news when we talk about the matchmaker deal that happened?

At announcement, Sirius said that it would be acquiring Pandora in an all-stock deal, which would value

Pandora at around $.5 billion dollars.

And I think that this is something we can file into the They Finally Did It category, Evan.

Yeah, I think people have been speculating about this for a while and I mean Serious took a, I think it was a 15 or 20 percent stick in Pandora I believe last year

so these two companies already have a relationship in the best relationship and their

partner and you know see I don't think this really caught too many people

by surprise. Yeah it was like those two friends that will they won't they they finally do

at the end of the sitcom special I think everyone's kind of happy about this on

their end.

The original deal terms had roughly a 14% premium.

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