Yahoo to Buy Online Music Seller for $160 Million
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na move to expand its role in the online music business, Yahoo announced yesterday that it would buy Musicmatch, a company that sells music online, for $160 million.
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In a bid to halt Google's growing dominance online, Microsoft has offered to buy struggling Internet giant Yahoo for $44.6 billion, an acquisition that would unite the world's most influential software company with the Web's most-trafficked site.
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Technology giant Microsoft Corp said  on Friday that it had offered to acquire Internet media company  Yahoo Inc for $44.6 billion in cash and stock.
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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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SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK  - Microsoft Corp offered to buy Yahoo Inc for $44.6 billion, in a bold bid to transform two ailing Internet businesses into a worthy competitor for market leader Google Inc.
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The deal, for $350 million in cash and stock, is the second sizable acquisition Yahoo has announced this month.
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Yahoo said it has paid $160 million to acquire Maven Networks, an Internet company that sells a system for managing advertisements in online videos.
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Yahoo is raising the cost of its online subscription music service between $1 and $3 per month, depending on the customer's plan. Initially launched in 2005 at a price of $4.99 per month, Yahoo Music Unlimited will now cost $11.99 per month when purchased annually.
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The internet's most heavily trafficked site is muscling in on the online music sector through its acquisition of Musicmatch in a $160 million deal announced Tuesday.
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Yahoo Inc. is buying online jukebox provider Musicmatch Inc. for $160 million in a deal designed to broaden the Internet giant&#39;s appeal with the growing audience of consumers who buy songs off the Web.
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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. is buying e-mail service Zimbra Inc. for $350 million in an all-cash deal that may open a new revenue channel for the slumping Internet icon.
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MacCentral - Yahoo! Inc. on Tuesday announced plans to acquire online music service Musicmatch Inc. in a cash deal valued at US&#36;160 million. It's Yahoo's maneuver to become a player in the online digital music download world, currently dominated by Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes Music Store, and populated by a variety of other competitors including Napster, Microsoft's MSN Music, Wal-Mart and others.
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Yahoo and Musicmatch today announced they have signed an agreement for Yahoo to acquire Musicmatch for approximately US$160 million in cash.
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Universal Music, the world's number one seller of recorded music, has said it was set to become the world's top music publisher thanks to a 1.63-billion-euro (2.0-billion-dollar) deal to buy Bertelsmann's BMG Music Publishing unit.
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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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SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK  - Microsoft Corp   made a bid to buy Yahoo Inc  for $44.6 billion, seeking  to join forces against Google Inc  in what would be the  biggest Internet deal since the Time Warner- AOL merger.