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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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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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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The music discovery service branches out from its Internet radio roots.
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US Internet search giant Yahoo has launched a video-sharing service in a move that it hopes will enable it to capitalize on a hot online trend being blazed by the popular young YouTube website.
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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 is reportedly in talks with major labels about a DRM-free music store. to offer them either for sale or for free in an ad-supported model.
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Yahoo Inc. is reprogramming its online video service so it&#039;s more like YouTube.com, an Internet upstart that has amassed a large audience during the past year with a free Web service that encourages people to post and share homemade clips.
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AOL on Tuesday unveiled a revamped  music product with a Web-based store and subscription service  offering audio and video streaming, programmed radio and  downloads that can be transferred to compatible digital media  players.
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Yahoo! yesterday became the latest big name to make its presence felt in the burgeoning market for online music. The internet portal agreed a $160m (Â£89m) deal to acquire Musicmatch, a San Diego-based firm
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Yahoo on Tuesday confirmed it acquired a start-up last month called Wuf Networks that produces technology to let people transfer digital files onto mobile devices.
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Yahoo Inc. launched a new service designed to let users of its search engine save and manage their query results for accessing later and sharing with others, the company said Tuesday.
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Yahoo is dropping its  subscription music service and replacing it with Rhapsody  America, a competing service operated by RealNetworks and MTV  Networks.
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Virgin Music Download Service Aims to Bite Apple, MSN, Yahoo  On Monday Virgin launched a digital music download service which is expected to challenge Napster, iTunes, MSN Music Store, and Yahoo as the first digital music download service with two big brother backing it up, the Virgin Music Store Chain and ...
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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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Yahoo, world&#39;s number one website, announced its decision to purchase MusicMatch today for $160 million in cash. With this step, Yahoo hopes to attract more music listerners to its website.
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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!"