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Disney Joining Apple’s Movie Rental Service - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 29 Dec 2007 01:14 AM PST

As was expected when the news of News Corp (NYSE: NWS). and its studio Twentieth Century Fox signing a movie rental deal came out earlier this week, Disney (NYSE: DIS)…

Warner Signs On With Amazon’s DRM-Free MP3 Download Store - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 27 Dec 2007 08:40 AM PST

Effective today, Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) follows Universal Music Group and EMI to the DRM-free Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) MP3 store. For Warner, it’s an admission that DRM-free music is…

Fox In Movie Rental Deal With Apple For iTunes; DVDs Will Allow Ripping To PC And iPods - 3 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 26 Dec 2007 06:40 PM PST

As had been speculated earlier in the month, News Corp (NYSE: NWS). and its studio Twentieth Century Fox have signed a deal with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to allow users to…

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Holiday Wire: McClatchy-Yahoo; Online Ads; Apple Shares Soar; Google Reader’s Beacon Effect - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 26 Dec 2007 10:12 AM PST

-- Despite Woes, McClatchy Banks on Newspapers: A deepish look at McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) including how/why McClatchy chairman and CEO Gary Pruitt’s job is safe despite losing $1.46 billion and…

Apple Rumor Site Think Secret Shutting Down On Settlement - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 20 Dec 2007 10:37 AM PST

Think Secret, a popular source of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) gossip and news, will be shutting down, per a settlement of a trade secrets lawsuit brought by Apple in 2005. In…

Digital Music Roundup: Radiohead Ends Pay-What-You-Want; Another Site Updates The Pricing Model - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 10 Dec 2007 03:17 PM PST

-- Radiohead Ends Pay-Your-Own-Price Plan, Probably For Good: Radiohead’s experiment in letting fans decide what to pay for downloads of its most recent album will end December 10, Digital Music…

@ UBS Media Week: Lionsgate’s Burns To Apple: Want New Movie Titles? Raise Your Prices - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 04 Dec 2007 03:32 PM PST

Lionsgate vice chairman Michael Burns has a message for Apple: if you want new home video releases available on iTunes, make your prices more in line with other retailers. Even…

@ UBS Media Week: NBCU’s Zucker: Making Sure Digital Dollars Don’t Become Pennies; $15M From Apple - 2 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 03 Dec 2007 11:41 AM PST

Among the goals Jeff Zucker, president and CEO of NBC Universal, (NYSE: GE) outlined for the company during the lunch session at the UBS Global Media & Communications Conference: replacing…

News Corp/Fox Close To Deal With Apple For iTunes Movies: Report - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 03 Dec 2007 11:08 AM PST

News Corp and its studio Twentieth Century Fox are close to a deal with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to begin offering new releases and catalog movie titles through iTunes beginning in…

AOL Outsources Paid Video Downloads To Amazon Unbox - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 30 Nov 2007 04:42 PM PST

AOL (NYSE: TWX) continues to reinvent its approach to a variety of initiatives under way before Randy Falco replaced Jon Miller as chairman and CEO last year. The latest: swapping…

AT&T CEO: Let Verizon Have Their Open Network, We’ve Got The 3G IPhone - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 29 Nov 2007 04:05 PM PST

A 3G version of Apple’s iPhone will come out next year, according to AT&T (NYSE: T) CEO Randall Stephenson, in a wide-ranging interview with Forbes at the Churchill Club dinner…

Apple Marketing Whiz Talks iPod, iPhone, International Growth - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 26 Nov 2007 09:28 PM PST

Even icons need marketing. Greg Joswiak, the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) marketing whiz working with the iPod and the iPhone, talked with Fortune’s Jon Fortt recently about the upcoming developer’s kit…

Video Distribution Service mDialog Raises $3 Million First Round - 3 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 31 Oct 2007 09:14 AM PST

Toronto-based mDialog, a video sharing and distribution startup, has raised a $3 million first round from angel investors, reports VentureBeat. In addition to offering user-generated content sharing, which is like…

Small Films Go ‘Straight To iTunes’; Apple Still Trying To Kickstart Movie Collection - 2 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 23 Oct 2007 04:57 PM PST

After a string of box office disappointments cooled distributors’ interest in his latest production, indie filmmaker Edward Burns will release his new movie, Purple Violets, via iTunes as a download…

Earnings: Apple Q4 Revs Jump 28 Percent; Earnings Up 67 Percent; iPhone Sales Hit 1.1 Million - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 22 Oct 2007 01:03 PM PST

iPhone sales of 1.1 million helped push Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) revenues up 28 percent in Q4 to 6.22 billion from $4.84 billion in the year-ago period. Earnings during the quarter…

It’s Official: Apple To Allow 3rd Party Apps On iPhone - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 17 Oct 2007 11:04 AM PST

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) will allow third-party apps on the iPhone, the company officially announced today, after rumors and hopes to this effect for a while. Of course, this is a…

Updated: Music Roundup: Apple Cuts DRM-free Prices; Napster’s Web-based Platform; Radiohead Piracy - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 16 Oct 2007 09:50 PM PST

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to Lower Price On DRM-free Tracks; Indie Labels Included: Report: Now that iTunes has competition with last month’s launch of Amazon’s (NSDQ: AMZN) DRM-free MP3 download store,…

Now It’s Really Official: Apple And Orange Announce IPhone Partnership In France - 0 Comments
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Tue 16 Oct 2007 03:43 PM PST

The delayed announcement of Orange selling the iPhone in France has finally come through—much the same details as in Germany (399 euros (US$565)) and rumors of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) getting…

Universal In Talks With SonyBMG and WMG on Free Music Service On Certain Devices; Possibly Zune - 4 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 13 Oct 2007 12:11 PM PST

This came out about a month ago on DMN here, and now both BusinessWeek and Telegraph UK are offering more details: Universal Music Group is in talks with Sony (NYSE:…

Facebook Working On a Music Platform For Bands; Not iTunes Killer, But MySpace; Apple Tieup - 8 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 05 Oct 2007 05:25 PM PST

Facebook is working on an artist platform to be launched later this year, which in essence is supposed to be better than what MySpace allows with its platform, according to…

Zucker Carries On NBCU Anti-Piracy Tradition, Then Talks Deals On CNBC - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 03 Oct 2007 08:18 PM PST

A busy Wednesday for NBCU CEO Jeff Zucker—a speech in Washington to carry on predecessor Bob Wright’s battle against piracy; and an appearance on CNBC’s Squawk Box to chat about…

Starbucks, iTunes WiFi Sales Get Underway; Limited Availability - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 03 Oct 2007 03:50 PM PST

I actually netted about 50 cents today during a stop at Starbucks—that’s if you total the two 99-cent ‘song of the day” freebies I left with and subtract a tall…

Microsoft Unveils Second-Gen Zunes: Flash Models, Better WiFi, MediaCenter Video Integration - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 02 Oct 2007 08:35 PM PST

As expected, the next gen of Zune was announced tonight: three new players timed to hit stores in mid-November: two flash models—4GB ($149) and 8GB ($199) - and an 80GB…

Microsoft To Launch New Version of Zune This Evening: Reports - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 02 Oct 2007 01:08 PM PST

Rumors have been circulating and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is expected to launch new versions of its Zune media player this evening. Not that Zune version 1 has done great, but…

CBS Radio, Clear Channel, Others, Agree To iTunes Tagging Feature On HD Broadcasts - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 02 Oct 2007 12:03 PM PST

Several major HD radio broadcasters have agreed to allow iTunes tagging, which lets listeners mark a preview of a song they hear on an HD receiver for purchasing. CBS (NYSE:…