Musicmatch Acquired by Yahoo 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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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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Yahoo's wholly-owned subsidiary Yahoo!Kimo has said it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire WRETCH, a Taiwanese social media content provider of weblosg and online photo album services.
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Close watchers of the online music business no doubt noted yesterday&#39;s announcement of Yahoo!&#39;s (Nasdaq: YHOO) purchase of Musicmatch with interest.
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Yahoo! is planning to launch its own online music service later this year, despite its $160m purchase of Musicmatch announced this week, according to music industry sources.
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Microsoft Corp on Friday said it had offered to acquire Yahoo Inc in a proposed cash and stock deal valued at $44.6 billion.
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In a bid to compete with Apple and Microsoft in the online music services market, online giant Yahoo announced yesterday that it would purchase MusicMatch for $160 million.
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The World&#39;s leading portal website Yahoo.com will blaze its trial in the digital music market launching an online music service by the end of this year.
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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.
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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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$160m cash purchase to propel digital music market entry
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Yahoo buys the online jukebox provider MusicMatch to tap into the appetite for song downloads.
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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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Yahoo said Tuesday that it is acquiring digital music specialist Musicmatch for $160 million in cash. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company said the buyout would help it expand its presence in the simmering
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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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In a move to expand its role in the online music business, Yahoo will buy Musicmatch, a company that sells music online, for $160 million.
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Apple&#39;s iTunes Music Store may be the current 800-pound gorilla of the online music industry (as far as paid downloads are concerned), but now Yahoo - possibly the most visited site on the Internet - is getting into the fray, paying $160 million in cash