Yahoo plans to launch an early version of a new flagship music service this week, in hopes of capturing some of the online music momentum now held by Apple Computer, sources familiar with the plans say.
Web giant Yahoo is developing a search engine for finding downloadable songs and music data from across the Internet.
Napster will open its long-promised portable music subscription service Thursday, which will make it the first company to put muscle behind a new music "rental" model aimed at undermining Apple Computer's digital music dominance.
Virgin Digital, the online arm of the Virgin Group, will launch an online music service Monday in the US aimed at replicating on the Net the success of its offline chain of retail music stores.
Web portal Yahoo is planning to launch its own online music service later this year, despite its US$160 million purchase of Musicmatch announced this week, according to music industry sources.
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Microsoft's MacWorld Expo announcement that it will deliver a version of its Media Player software for OS X this coming spring follows two of the company's "new millennium" strategies.
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