Yahoo opens up music site

 

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By Reuters

Posted on 12 Sep 2008 at 08:50

Yahoo plans to open its online music site to feature information from services such as iTunes and Amazon.

"We are going to completely open up Yahoo Music in the next few weeks," says Scott Moore, the executive in charge of Yahoo's media businesses, told reporters at a briefing at the company's Sunnyvale, California, headquarters.

At the meeting, Moore showed prototypes of how Yahoo plans to open other sites within Yahoo's network which overall attracts more than 500 million users worldwide each month.

Beyond music, the company is working to allow partners to deliver content on the main page of Yahoo News, the company's second most-visited site after its home page.

Other Yahoo executives described progress the company is making in opening up its email system, which counts upward of 275 million users worldwide and is the world's largest consumer email service.

Ash Patel, the company's products chief, showed how Yahoo was incorporating applications from outside services such as video-rental company Netflix inside Yahoo Mail. Other executives highlighted recent announcements to feature Yahoo and other web content on Yahoo services aimed at mobile phones and televisions.