Yahoo Sells Music Service to Rhapsody


	Yahoo Sells Music Service to Rhapsody

finifinito

2-5-2008 4:25 PM

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music, subscriptions, yahoo, rhapsody

finifinito says:

Yahoo (YHOO Unlimited Music was a service as was stated in the Techdirt piece below, a service designed to fail. They bought the wonderful MusicMatch player only to dub it down and screw it up for use as the Yahoo Unlimited player, and now they are selling their subscriber base to Rhapsody owned by Real Networks, the clear leader in the music subscriptions category.

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