Comments on: Yahoo May Be Looking To Buy Israel’s FoxyTunes

By: Breaking: In The Middle of The Storm, Yahoo! Acquires Israeli FoxyTunes

Breaking: In The Middle of The Storm, Yahoo! Acquires Israeli FoxyTunes — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:37:02 +0000

[...] couple of weeks ago we reported several rumors of acquisition of Israel-based FoxyTunes a Firefox plugin that allows users to [...]

By: Bitesize newsbrief: Israeli startup headlines for the week of 01.29.08 | VC Cafe | Venture Capital Cafe

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:22:23 +0000

[...] Yahoo! rumored to buy Israel-based Foxytunes Is Yahoo delaying the announcement until the layoffs are done? TechCrunch reported “The FoxyTunes core service is a Firefox plug-in that allows users to control their favorite media players from the browser. It has a small but loyal following who also use their tangential services (an email/blog signature tool and FoxyTunes Planet, a site that aggregates music information). The acquisition makes some sense given Yahoo recent overt signals that they are shaking things up in music. Last week they launched a new, stripped down, easy-to-use web based MP3 player as well. The technology that FoxyTunes has created could certainly be used to further that agenda.” [...]

By: Don Jones

Don Jones — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:18:56 +0000

Michael - not sure what to make of your “rumors of a Yahoo acquisition.” Seems a while ago you said the same thing about PBwiki, when there was no such thing.

By: Ninth Life

Ninth Life — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:35:25 +0000

One word for everybody… Webjay.

By: Bali

Bali — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:30:10 +0000

This acquisition looks like a desperate move to yahoo

By: Benjamin Yahud

Benjamin Yahud — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:58:26 +0000

You’re so full of shit dude

By: Rajeev

Rajeev — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:37:36 +0000

Competition keeps org’s on toes to woo otherwise inconsequential customers.

http://tekno-world.blogspot.com

By: Benjamin Yahud

Benjamin Yahud — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:12:02 +0000

Israel has the brightest of engineers, most money thats poured in are from Israeli/Jewish capitalists. We fund our own, grow our own, and publicize our own.

Jewish firms are by far the best - after all, We are the chosen ones.

By: none

none — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:17:58 +0000

I have developed an application in this field that may interest Yahoo as well. How do I contact them?

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:36:09 +0000

Wow, it really shows that I use my PC mostly for work. My Firefox has only the “Web Developer” and “iMacros” add-ons installed

By: LobsterMan

LobsterMan — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:22:28 +0000

Joshua Walters: Are you a Microsoft employee by any chance?

By: osciva

osciva — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:15:08 +0000

Mordechai: It seems more like Silicon Valley owns Israel

By: CrunchHead

CrunchHead — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:50:27 +0000

Y! will screw it up .. that you can be sure of

By: MYBLOG by Ouriel

MYBLOG by Ouriel — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:23:58 +0000

Yahoo is Landing in the Holy Land. Shopping starting soon. Update: Shopping started…

This was only a matter of time (and opportunity): Microsoft And Google will soon have a new neighbor in Haifa. Yahoo is opening a RD office in Israel but also strikes a search deal with the biggest israeli portal (Walla)….

By: Amarnath

Amarnath — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:00:49 +0000

This is a trend majors are following….. grown the inorganic way!!! where is this heading??

By: Mordechai Horowitz

Mordechai Horowitz — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:16:04 +0000

Israel rocks, we own Silicon Valley. Props to Foxy Tunes!

By: Tech Slice

Tech Slice — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:10:51 +0000

They are basically paying for the followers, not the application itself.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:07:30 +0000

I too like FoxyTunes. I would like it to support Songbird. I would have no objection to its being acquired by Yahoo.

By: Carl

Carl — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:26:33 +0000

What happened to Broadcast.com?

By: Joshua Walters

Joshua Walters — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:23:44 +0000

I wouldnt mind Yahoo buying it, provided they didnt do some lame crap with it.

Oh, and just a note, I want Zune support for the next FoxyTunes. Its a popular enough media player, it deserves to be included.

Oh, and the NowPlaying is AMAZING on the Zune software, its awesome with the album art being displayed.

By: JawnieM

JawnieM — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:10:21 +0000

This is a super cool app, clean UI, good selection.

By: Paly

Paly — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:03:46 +0000

I love FoxyTunes. Please Yahoo, don’t screw it up

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:31:48 +0000

And Y! can’t make this themselves why…?

By: Foxy Cleopatra

Foxy Cleopatra — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:15:48 +0000

This deal only makes strategic web 2.0 sense if Yahoo vastly overpays for FoxyTunes.