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Gigya publishes stats on how people share content online
Social startup Gigya has published some interesting stats on content sharing online, based on data from its sharing widgets, which are embedded on more than 5,000 sites. The widgets let people post...
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Yahoo launches Android MP3 player app
Android has a new music app today: Play by Yahoo Music. Available initially in the US, it lets users play their MP3 collections, but also includes Shazam-style music recognition, which Yahoo says uses...
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Google, Amazon, Yahoo and Dish tipped for Hulu acquisition bids
The sale process for online TV service Hulu continues, with Business Week claiming five companies have made first-round bids. It names four of them: US satellite TV company Dish Network, Google, Yahoo...
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Rumours of an AOL and Yahoo merger heating up again
Can two massive corporate wrongs make a right, or simply a titanically wronger wrong? There were reports this weekend that AOL's CEO Tim Armstrong is in talks with advisers to Yahoo over a possible...
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Internet giants team up to protest against SOPA legislation
The US Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is facing opposition from a group of large internet companies.
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Search engines pushing back against music ‘white-list’ claims report
The Slightly Right of Centre blog has caused a stir with a blog post claiming search engines are coming under pressure to remove sites linked to piracy from their results in the UK, and also to promote...
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Spotify looks for scale with Yahoo deal, including rev-share
Any freemium business is only as good as the size of its funnel bringing in new users. Spotify just widened that funnel with a high-profile deal with Yahoo, starting with Yahoo Music before expanding...
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Yahoo signs iHeartRadio as exclusive music radio provider
There's a big shake-up going on at Yahoo for music. Having announced Spotify as its new streaming partner earlier in the week, now Yahoo has a separate deal with Clear Channel's iHeartRadio.
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Yahoo poaches senior Googler Marissa Mayer for CEO role
Mayer joins Yahoo from Google, where she was the company's 20th ever employee, rising to become one of its senior executives.
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Yahoo’s IntoNow social TV app now identifies music
The latest version of IntoNow has added music into the mix: it's capable of identifying songs being played in the background of shows, including covers and live performances. Users of the app can then...
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Yahoo buys Bieber-invested Stamped app (but will shut it down)
Stamped has been acquired by Yahoo, making it the first such deal for recently-appointed CEO Marissa Mayer.
View ArticlecomScore releases US online video rankings for September 2012
comScore has published its latest Video Metrix online video rankings for the US, with Google sites (i.e. YouTube) still far and away the leader.
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Now Yahoo shuts down its Chinese music service
Yahoo is the latest Western internet company to shut down its music site in China, following Google's pullout earlier this year.
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Google and Yahoo accused of supporting piracy sites (again)
Music rightsholders have regularly criticised Google for its online ads popping up on websites devoted to piracy. Now they’ll have more ammunition in the form of an Advertising Transparency Report from...
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Yahoo in talks to take major stake in video site Dailymotion
French site Dailymotion sits alongside Vimeo in being an online video site that has a decent audience, but which hasn't looked like seriously challenging YouTube for sheer scale for a long time.
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Yahoo tipped to buy Tumblr for as much as $1bn
This is all just speculation for now, but it's very interesting: Yahoo is reportedly in talks to buy blogging service Tumblr for what AdWeek suggests could be up to $1bn.
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Yahoo board approves $1.1bn acquisition of Tumblr
Tumblr will be under new ownership soon, it seems. All Things Digital seemingly had several moles in Yahoo's board meeting yesterday that approved a $1.1bn acquisition of the blogging platform, and...
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Yahoo confirms it’s buying Tumblr for $1.1bn
The rumours were correct, right down to the price: Yahoo is buying blogging platform Tumblr for a cool $1.1bn – "substantially all of which is payable in cash" according to the official announcement....
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Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and others to clamp down on ad-supported piracy
We've been reporting for more than a year now on the growing calls from musicians and music bodies for more action to be taken against 'ad-supported piracy' – the fact that display ads from big...
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Yahoo! Music taps into The Echo Nest
Yahoo! Music has signed a multi-year deal with The Echo Nest to tap into the latter’s Dynamic Music Data offering which collates and updates.The post Yahoo! Music taps into The Echo Nest appeared first...
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