Yahoo buys RB-based online jukebox provider Musicmatch for $160 ...
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Internet giant Yahoo Inc. is buying Rancho Bernardo&#39;s Musicmatch Inc. for $160 million in a deal designed to broaden Yahoo&#39;s appeal to consumers who buy music off the Web.
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Yahoo to purchase website geared towards creating online competitions.
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Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo for around $44.6 billion in cash and shares, to better compete with Google in the market for online services.
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(InfoWorld) - Yahoo put another music track without DRM (digital rights management) on sale through its Yahoo Music service Tuesday. The Norah Jones single "Thinking About You" sells for $0.99, in MP3 format on Yahoo's music store, and in DRM-encumbered AAC format on Apple Computer's iTunes Store. Both formats will play on PCs, Macs, and the market-leading iPod portable music player, but only the MP3 version will play on other portable music players. DRM technology is used to set limits on how, when, how many times, and on what devices a file may be played. While DRM can be applied to music in AAC, ATRAC, or WMA format, it cannot be introduced into MP3 files. Yahoo first experimented withÂ selling MP3 files without DRMÂ in July, when it offered Jessica Simpson's "A Public Affair" as an MP3 file for $1.99. While that track was not tied to a particular PC or music player with DRM, the audio track was personalized to contain a first name of the purchaser's choice, picked from a list of hundreds of prerecorded names, limiting its interest to other listeners. Since then, Yahoo has sold an entire album by the artist Jesse McCartney in both MP3 and the DRM-encumbered WMA (Windows Media Audio) format, but has not published sales figures for the two formats. Some see the release of tracks in MP3 format, without DRM, as a big gamble for record labels, as nothing prevents buyers from uploading them to file-sharing networks. In reality, DRM does little to stop such behavior, but makes life harder for legitimate music users, said analyst Mark Mulligan, a vice president at Jupiter Research in the U.K. "Most of the DRM in place is not going to stop piracy. You've got limits on CD-burning, but all of that is cracked immediately if you burn it onto CD and rip it back in again. Anyone with an ounce of tech-savvy is going to know how to get around that," he said. But the fact that there's nothing to stop listeners copying and sharing MP3 files could work to record labels' advantage, said Mulligan. "It's going to be implemented more as marketing than anything else," he said. Blue Note Records, the record label promoting the Jones track, is only releasing the single, not an entire album, in MP3 format for now. If Mulligan is right, it could be just a marketing gimmick to build awareness of the album, which will go on sale in January. Major record labels are starting toÂ look more seriously at MP3 distributionÂ because of the success of eMusic.com, which Mulligan says is the second-largest online music download store in the U.S., after that of Apple. EMusic sells music from independent record labels in MP3 format.
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Blog: The update to Apple's jukebox software, as expected, adds support for synching with an iPhone.
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The competition arrayed against Apple in the growing online music market is shifting. In a deal valued at US$160 million, Yahoo! announced today the acquisition of one-time Apple partner Musicmatch.
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Get on your feet... Yahoo! is taking some time out from worrying about what it's like to be a Microsoft tentacle to offload its damp squib music subscription service.â¦
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Microsoft Corp. has offered to buy struggling internet search provider Yahoo for $44.6 billion, a merger that would combine two of the technology world's most well-known names into a potentially potent competitor for Google in the lucrative Web search and advertising market.
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Undeterred by the threat of hostile takeover, slumping Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc. completed an acquisition of its own Tuesday by buying online video service Maven Networks Inc. for $160 million.
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Musicmatch Inc., a privately held Rancho Bernardo music software and services firm, is being acquired by Internet giant Yahoo for $160 million in cash.
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NEW YORK: Internet company Yahoo says it will buy privately held music software company Musicmatch for about $US160 million in a bid to bolster its online music services.
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Web portal Yahoo Inc is in early  discussions with major record labels to offer an online music  service, the Associated Press reported.
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Yahoo Pumps Up the Volume with MusicMatch Acquisition  Yahoo and Musicmatch, Inc. today announced they have signed a definitive agreement under which Yahoo will acquire Musicmatch for a purchase price of approximately $160 million in cash. The combination will substantially increase Yahoo's music reach from 12.9 million to an estimated 23 ...
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Yahoo! Inc. on Tuesday announced plans to acquire online music service Musicmatch Inc. in a cash deal valued at US$160 million. It&#39;s Yahoo&#39;s maneuver to become a player in the online digital music download
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Sony BMG announces a deal with Amazon to put tracks online that are free of copy controls.
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Yahoo, seeking to add e-commerce to its Internet music portal, will pay &#36;160 million in cash to acquire Musicmatch, a critically acclaimed but little known music jukebox and download service.
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Internet portal Yahoo, Inc., of Sunnyvale, says it&#39;s buying Musicmatch, Inc., of San Diego, which sells personalized music software and services, for about $160 million in cash.