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Music Radio (formerly known as LAUNCHcast) was an Internet radio service. The service, which featured both an advertising supported free version and a subscription fee -based premium version, allowed users to create personalized Internet radio stations by rating songs selected by a recommender system .
In June 2001, after the bursting of the dot-com bubble, Yahoo! acquired LAUNCH Media, which was facing financial difficulty, for $12 million. [1] [2] [3] In addition to a website with music news and videos, it provided an Internet radio service that allowed users to create personalized Internet radio stations by rating songs selected by a recommender system.
Launch operates an internet radio website by providing a webcasting service (LAUNCHcast), "which enables a user to create 'stations' that play songs that are within a particular genre or similar to a particular artist or song the user selects." The parties did not materially dispute how LAUNCHcast worked. LAUNCHcast is now known as Yahoo! Music ...
Broadcast.com was an Internet radio company founded as AudioNet in September 1995 by Cameron Christopher Jaeb. Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban later led the company's daily operations which was eventually sold to Yahoo! on April 1, 1999, for $5.7 billion, making it the most expensive acquisition Yahoo! has made. [1]
On November 28, 2007, AOL announced that they might shut down their web radio services after a 38 percent increase in royalties to air music. Yahoo! and AOL discontinued directing users to their radio sites after SoundExchange, the non-profit performance rights organization that collects royalties on the behalf of sound recording copyright ...
Sam Fender on New Album ‘People Watching’ and Why Rock Music’s ‘Grassroots Scene Has Been F—ing Decimated’: The Industry Is ‘Inaccessible for Working-Class People’ Sam Fender’s third album, “People Watching,” has been a long time coming — and it didn’t come easy.
Yahoo! 360° was a social networking and personal communication portal operated by Yahoo!, made available in 2005. It enabled users to create personal websites, share photos from Yahoo! It enabled users to create personal websites, share photos from Yahoo!
On Oct. 24, 2006, a little-known singer-songwriter from Wyomissing, Penn., released her self-titled debut album. That 16-year-old was Taylor Swift, who went on to become one of the most successful ...