https://news.hitb.org/ en https://news.hitb.org/content/microsoft-talks-buy-shoutcast-and-winamp-aol <article data-history-node-id="48538" role="article" class="node article teaser clearfix UTF-8"> <header> <h2 class="title text-center"><a href="/content/microsoft-talks-buy-shoutcast-and-winamp-aol" rel="bookmark"><span>Microsoft In Talks To Buy Shoutcast And Winamp From AOL</span> </a></h2> <div class="meta submit clearfix"> <div class="date text-right"> <span class="lowercase">posted on</span>November 22, 2013 </div> <div class="author"> <span class="lowercase">by</span> <span><span>l33tdawg</span></span> </div> </div> </header> <div class="image-default"> <div> <a href="/content/microsoft-talks-buy-shoutcast-and-winamp-aol" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/field/image/500px-Microsoft.svg_.png?itok=QHhcCmOW" width="220" height="47" alt="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft" title="Credit: Wikipedia" /> </a> </div> <div class="image-credit"> <strong>Credit:</strong> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft</a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div><p>Looks like the llama may not get off so easily after all.</p> <p>AOL yesterday announced that it was shutting down Winamp, media playing software for Windows and Android devices that it picked up through its 1999, $80 million acquisition of Nullsoft in 1999. But today Techcrunch has learned that AOL is talks with Microsoft to sell Winamp, along with Shoutcast, a media streaming service also developed by Nullsoft. We have also learned that AOL has been planning to announce the closure of Shoutcast next week.</p></div> </div> <div class="meta link clearfix"> <div class="comment"> <span class="lowercase">no</span>comment </div> <div class="share text-center show-for-medium"> <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_16 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://news.hitb.org/content/microsoft-talks-buy-shoutcast-and-winamp-aol" data-a2a-title="Microsoft In Talks To Buy Shoutcast And Winamp From AOL"><a class="a2a_button_facebook"><span class="fa fa-facebook"></span></a><a class="a2a_button_twitter"><span class="fa fa-twitter"></span></a><a class="a2a_button_linkedin"><span class="fa fa-linkedin"></span></a><a class="a2a_button_email"><span class="fa fa-envelope"></span></a></span> </div> <div class="read-more"><a href="/content/microsoft-talks-buy-shoutcast-and-winamp-aol"><span class="lowercase">&#8594;</span>READ MORE</a></div> </div> </article> Fri, 22 Nov 2013 00:09:34 +0000 l33tdawg 48538 at https://news.hitb.org