Yahoo snaps up net music service
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Yahoo buys the online jukebox provider MusicMatch to tap into the appetite for song downloads.
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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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Yahoo's cautious experiment with eMusic-style DRM-free music downloads continues as their Yahoo Music service releases another single in MP3 format.
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Internet portal Yahoo Inc. said Tuesday that it agreed to buy Web-based digital music and software provider Musicmatch Inc. for $160 million in cash, in a deal which will supplement the offerings of Launch, Yahoo&#39;s digital music site.
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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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Sentero.net, a site offering mp3 music  downloads, recently launched a free music streaming service sure to  appeal to all music lovers. Inventors promise the new service will  redefine both Internet radio and  music marketing on the internet.
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(InfoWorld) - Yahoo Inc. has launched a service called Pipes designed to let regular users mix different RSS and Atom feeds and create data "mashups," a process that so far has required programming knowledge. Pipes features a drag-and-drop interface that the company hopes non-technical users will find simple and intuitive as they manipulate content syndication feeds to combine data in new and useful ways. An example of a Pipe is this one , which meshes listings from Craigslist with data from Yahoo's local search engine to display apartments for rent near any business, Yahoo said. Another one collates news about topics chosen by the user from a variety of sources. "Pipes' initial set of modules lets you assemble personalized information sources out of existing Web services and data feeds. Pipes outputs standard RSS 2.0, so you can subscribe to and read your pipes in your favorite aggregator. You can also create pipes that accept user input and run them on our servers as a kind of miniature Web application," reads Yahoo's description of the service , posted Wednesday night. While Pipes today lets users mix data from RSS and Atom feeds, Yahoo hopes to extend the service to support other data formats, Web services, processing modules and output renderings, Yahoo said. For example, Yahoo will open up access to the Pipes engine to programmers and add support for the KML data source, which is used to display geographic data in Google Inc.'s popular Google Earth mapping application and Google Maps Web site. The initial response from observers has been enthusiastic. "Yahoo's new Pipes service is a milestone in the history of the Internet," Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of computer book publisher O'Reilly Media Inc., wrote on his blog . "While it's still a bit rough around the edges, it has enormous promise in turning the Web into a programmable environment for everyone." The Pipes Web site, available throughout this morning, was nonetheless down at press time, displaying the message: "Our Pipes are clogged! We've called the plumbers!"
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Yahoo rolls out new services while telling carriers it isn't trying to cut them out of the loop.
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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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MusicNet, the company that powers the song libraries of Yahoo! Music Unlimited and URGE, said Tuesday that it will make available over 1 million tracks in MP3 format without digital rights management. The move follows Apple offering DRM-free songs in its own AAC format through iTunes.
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Internet media company Yahoo Inc said  on Tuesday it is adding media-playing features, large file  transfers, new languages and other tools to its instant  messaging service.
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Yahoo! has announced that it will acquire digital music company Musicmatch for $160 million in cash. With the addition of Musicmatch's Jukebox service to its portfolio, the move will help Yahoo! establish itself in the online music market currently dominated by Apple's iTunes.
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Yahoo said it was buying digital music group Musicmatch for about 160 million dollars in cash in a move aimed at boosting the Internet portal's online music offerings.
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Internet media company Yahoo Inc  said on Tuesday it is adding media-playing features, large file transfers, new languages and other tools to its instant messaging service.
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Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) is buying online jukebox provider Musicmatch Inc. for $160 million in a deal designed to broaden the Internet giant's appeal with the growing audience of consumers who buy songs off the Web.
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Internet company Yahoo Inc.  said on Tuesday it will buy privately held music software company Musicmatch Inc. for about &#36;160 million in a bid to bolster its online music services.
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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 ...