Yahoo Music To Get The Axe?

After CEO, and original founder, Jerry Yang announced broad restructuring for the once-great Yahoo!, many industry watchers are wondering if their much-ballyhooed music division is going to get the boot. Yang is currently evaluating the company’s current strategy and properties, and will be announcing new direction for the concern by Jan 2008. According to reports, Yang has singled out Yahoo! Music as a primary target. The...

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Is Free Napster Circling The Drain?

Napster is apparently phasing out its Free Napster initiative that features grainy-sounding streams of a handful of albums. The ad-supported initiative can only be accessed by going directly to the free.napser.com domain; there are no links from Napster.com. With much fanfare, Napster unveiled the free streaming service last May and declared it to be the next digital music paradigm. However, the incredibly poor sound qualtity and...

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