Wired Blogger Analyzes the Yahoo-Musicmatch Fiasco
More on Yahoo’s decision to shut down Musicmatch: On Wired’s Listening Post blog, Eliot Van Buskirk asks why Yahoo would have paid $160 million for Musicmatch back in 2004, “only to let it let the assets they acquired stagnate as they focused on the (largely duplicative) Yahoo Music Engine/Unlimited,” according to an insider close to the situation.
In fact, all Yahoo did after the acquisition is relocate a few Musicmatch employees and then revise their own Yahoo Music Store two years later.
While
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