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January 17, 2008

Yahoo May Be Looking To Buy Israel’s FoxyTunes

Michael Arrington

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Rumors popped up here in Silicon Valley that Yahoo is in negotiations to buy Israel-based FoxyTunes.

The Foxytunes core service is a Firefox plugin 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.

FoxyTunes won’t return emails asking about this. Unsurprisingly, Yahoo also chose not to comment.

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  1. Foxy Cleopatra

    January 17th, 2008 at 6:15 pm

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

  2. Paul

    January 17th, 2008 at 6:31 pm

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

  3. Paly

    January 17th, 2008 at 7:03 pm

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

  4. JawnieM

    January 17th, 2008 at 7:10 pm

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

  5. Joshua Walters

    January 17th, 2008 at 7:23 pm

    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.

  6. Carl

    January 17th, 2008 at 7:26 pm

    What happened to Broadcast.com?

  7. Andrew

    January 17th, 2008 at 8:07 pm

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

  8. Tech Slice

    January 17th, 2008 at 8:10 pm

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

  9. Mordechai Horowitz

    January 17th, 2008 at 8:16 pm

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

  10. Amarnath

    January 17th, 2008 at 9:00 pm

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

  11. CrunchHead

    January 17th, 2008 at 11:50 pm

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

  12. osciva

    January 18th, 2008 at 12:15 am

    Mordechai: It seems more like Silicon Valley owns Israel :)

  13. LobsterMan

    January 18th, 2008 at 12:22 am

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

  14. Tim

    January 18th, 2008 at 1:36 am

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

  15. none

    January 18th, 2008 at 3:17 am

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

  16. Benjamin Yahud

    January 18th, 2008 at 4:12 am

    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.

  17. Rajeev

    January 18th, 2008 at 4:37 am

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

    http://tekno-world.blogspot.com

  18. Benjamin Yahud

    January 18th, 2008 at 4:58 am

    You’re so full of shit dude

  19. Bali

    January 18th, 2008 at 7:30 am

    This acquisition looks like a desperate move to yahoo

  20. Ninth Life

    January 18th, 2008 at 7:35 am

    One word for everybody… Webjay.

  21. Don Jones

    January 18th, 2008 at 10:18 am

    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.

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