Yahoo To Launch Own Music Player, Despite Acquisition

I had to break my weekend to bring you this: Despite Musicmatch’s acquisition by Yahoo, announced last week, the web portal is planning to launch its own online music service later this year, reports News.com.

Since late last year, Yahoo has been developing its own music player software, which will be underpinned by a subscription and download service provided by MusicNet…(that explains the earlier stories swirling about Yahoo’s tie-up with MusicNet).

The home-built media player is supposed to launch in the fourth quarter..Yahoo is likely to run the two services side by side for some time before ultimately drawing on Musicmatch’s technology and moving Musicmatch’s subscribers into the Yahoo fold.

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