Listen.com Buys TuneTo.com

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SAN FRANCISCO — Listen.com, one of the best-known music directories on the Web, said it has acquired TuneTo.com Inc., a smaller startup with an unusual technology for broadcasting sound over the Internet.

Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Both companies are closely held.

Listen Chief Executive Rob Reid said TuneTo’s technology addresses some major problems for Internet radio and other ventures based on streaming, a widely used technique for broadcasting music that is an alternative to downloading complete files.




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