pandora announced it would buy up most of it's rival rdio for $75 million dollars, and next year the plan is for pandora to include a feature for on-demand listening, similar to spotify or apple music. ***" "meanwhile, beats music is shutting down at the end of the month, on november 30th. it also was a paid, on-demand music service. apple bought beats and is encouraging users to migrate to apple music, which has now been around for six months, and is also available e android devices. ***""and we say goodbye to another music service forever. *** zune. yeah this week microsoft shut down all zune services, for any of you that stll used the zune player for connecting online to download music from the marketplace or the zune music pass subscription program, which changed to the groove music service. back in 2008 microsoft stoped making zunes, but now by killing the services, the zune name shall no longer be spokok in the halls of microsoft... t we shshl never forget.***""that's for this tech news update, and there's more at cnet.com. from our studios in new york, i'm bridget carey. 3 3 t