{"id":82514,"date":"2017-05-23T12:44:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T16:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techvibes.com\/?p=82514"},"modified":"2017-05-26T14:59:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T18:59:34","slug":"paypal-sues-pandora-over-confusingly-similar-logo-design","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/paypal-sues-pandora-over-confusingly-similar-logo-design","title":{"rendered":"PayPal Sues Pandora Over Confusingly Similar Logo Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wanted to make an online payment but ended up listening to Led Zeppelin instead? Apparently it&#8217;s a common case for those with both PayPal and Pandora apps on their phones, and the former would very much like something to be done about it.<\/p>\n<p>PayPal is suing Pandora, a struggling music streaming service, for late last year unveiling a new logo\u2014their first since launching more than a decade ago\u2014which is confusingly similar to that of the payment giant&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>PayPal submitted in its suit myriad examples on social media of customers expressing confusion between the two logos. The company claims it has &#8220;invested heavily&#8221; in its new logo, arguing Pandora&#8217;s mimicry has &#8220;interfered dramatically&#8221; with the user experience of PayPal.<\/p>\n<p>The payments firm stated it attempted to reach out to Pandora directly but was ignored. PayPal is demanding the courts force Pandora to stop using its new logo.<\/p>\n<p>In the face of stiff competition from Spotify, Apple Music, and others, Pandora is barely staying afloat this year. A damning legal battle could devastate the fragile firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wanted to make an online payment but ended up listening to Led Zeppelin instead? Apparently it&#8217;s a common case for those with both PayPal and Pandora apps on their phones, and the former would very much like something to be done about it. PayPal is suing Pandora, a struggling music streaming service, for late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55555,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[288,90,37,91],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-82514","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","hentry","category-News","tag-legal","tag-music","tag-paypal","tag-streaming"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/82514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/55555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/82514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82514"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=82514"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=82514"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=82514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}