MUMBAI: Yahoo plans to open its online music site to users who can view information about songs and artistes from outside services like Apple Inc iTunes or Amazon.com, says a Reuters report.
“We are going to completely open up Yahoo Music in the next few weeks,” Yahoo’s media businesses executive Scott Moore, told reporters at a briefing at the company’s Sunnyvale, California, headquarters.
The meeting also discussed the range of ways that the company is seeking to open up the world’s largest Internet destination to feature content from across the Web instead of just information located on Yahoo’s own sites.
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Yahoo also planned to open other media properties within Yahoo’s network — which overall attracts more than 500 million users worldwide each month.
The company is also pernering to deliver content on the main page of Yahoo News, the company’s second most-visited Web page after its home page.
It is also said the company is making in opening up its e-mail system, which counts upward of 275 million users worldwide and is the world’s largest consumer e-mail service.
In the meeting the company’s products chief Ash Patel 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.
