Tag: YAHOO-MUSIC

Yahoo! launched a new version of Yahoo! Music this week. And its choc full of links to external services like Last.fm, Pandora, and YouTube. There are also links to other Yahoo! services like Flickr. Last year Yahoo! killed off its LaunchCast streaming radio service. By linking out to sites that specialize in selling music downloads (including Amazon and iTunes), and sites that offer music ...

Companies like SeeqPod and Skreemr have made a business model out of letting you search for a song or musician by name and then streaming the MP3s found on the web. The sites don't actually host any of the music - just the tools to locate and play it. But they do rely on the fact that millions of people have already illegally uploaded copyrighted songs to the internet. Now Yahoo! has entered the ...