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In June 2001, after the bursting of the dot-com bubble, Yahoo! acquired LAUNCH Media, which was facing financial difficulty, for $12 million. [1] [2] [3] In addition to a website with music news and videos, it provided an Internet radio service that allowed users to create personalized Internet radio stations by rating songs selected by a recommender system.
Yahoo! ( / ˈjɑːhuː /, styled yahoo! in its logo) [ 4][ 5] is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and operated by the namesake company Yahoo! Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Management and 10% by Verizon Communications . It provides a web portal, search engine ...
musicmatch.com (archived) MusicMatch Jukebox was media player software made by San Diego -based MusicMatch, Inc. It provided the ability to manage digital audio files and playlists, audio file conversion, an online music store, Internet radio, Compact Disc Digital Audio playback, CD ripper capabilities, and managing digital media on portable ...
Yahoo! Music Radio (formerly known as LAUNCHcast) was an Internet radio service. The service, which featured both an advertising supported free version and a subscription fee -based premium version, allowed users to create personalized Internet radio stations by rating songs selected by a recommender system.
Yahoo! Music Jukebox, formerly known as Yahoo! Music Engine, was a freeware music player released by Yahoo! in 2005 to compete with iTunes and Rhapsody in the digital music market. Developed side-by-side with MusicMatch Jukebox, another music player acquired by Yahoo! in 2004, [1] it was designed to be the main client for Yahoo's array of music ...
Bix - A website that provided tools for the creation of contests; acquired by Yahoo on November 16, 2006, and shut down on June 30, 2009. [16] [17] blo.gs - A directory of blogs; acquired in June 2005 and sold to Automattic, parent of WordPress.com in April 2009. [18] [19] [20] Yahoo! Briefcase - A free file hosting service; shut down on March ...
Yahoo! Music Unlimited was a music streaming service and digital music store by Yahoo! Music. History. In May 2005, Yahoo Music launched Yahoo!
Lyndsey Parker is an American entertainment journalist and author. A former managing editor at Yahoo! Music, she focuses on music and pop culture. She is the author of Reality Rocks, a column that covers television shows such as The Voice and American Idol and the co-host of the vlog, The Day After.[ 1][ 2][ 3] On May 28, 2018, Parker began ...