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Nokia Denies Paying Universal Music Group High Fees For Comes With Music - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 18 Apr 2008 11:02 AM PST

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is denying reports—including ours—of a deal to pay Universal Music Group $33-35 per handset for access to its music on the handset maker’s upcoming Comes With Music.…

Orange Trials Mobile E-Newspaper Reader With Le Monde Et Al - 2 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 18 Apr 2008 05:41 AM PST

Orange in France is testing a concept mobile digital newspaper and ebook reader. Like an Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle minus the keyboard, Read&Go uses touchscreen to navigate a custom UI…

NBCU May Become Major Shareholder of Lara Croft Publisher: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 17 Apr 2008 09:16 PM PST

SCi Entertainment, the LSE-traded games publisher that owns the popular Lara Croft Tomb Raider franchise, is close to finalizing a $100 million issue, and NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) could become…

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Newspaper Roundup: AP Members Grouse; McClatchy Offers Buyouts; Toronto Star Lays Off Internet Staff - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 17 Apr 2008 04:45 PM PST

-- AP: Newspaper editors let loose a barrage of criticism for the new Associated Press rate structure after an appearance by AP President and CEO Tom Curley at the American…

It’s Official: Live Current Media Bags Rights To IPL Portal For $50 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 17 Apr 2008 10:44 AM PST

From our India site ContentSutra: So here’s the official announcement regarding Canadian company Live Current Media’s deal with the Indian Premier league, for cricket, which we had told you about…

MySpace Officially Launches In India; COO Kapur: No Exclusivity With News Corp - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 17 Apr 2008 10:35 AM PST

Yesterday, MySpace CEO Cris DeWolfe launched the South Korean version of MySpace; today, COO Amit Kapur is in Mumbai officially launching MySpace India, which has been live since January. Unlike…

Updated: Thomson Reuters Day One: Combined Company, New Logo - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 16 Apr 2008 05:47 PM PST

The biggest business media company in the world is being born today (April 17th, which it is in Asia now), as Thomson Reuters. The new company, with headquarters in New…

Canadian Firm Live Current Media Bags Indian Cricket League’s Online Rights For $50 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 16 Apr 2008 01:50 PM PST

Live Current Media Inc (LCM), a Vancouver, Canada based company has bagged the portal rights of the Indian Premier League for 10 years for $50 million, we have confirmed from…

Vivendi Games-Activision Merger Approved By EC; Claims Of ‘Unfair’ Music Competition Brushed Aside - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 16 Apr 2008 08:33 AM PST

The European Commission has cleared the $18.9 billion merger of Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) and Vivendi’s (EPA: VIV) games unit on several anti-trust grounds. The EC began a routine investigation in…

Asian Expansion: MySpace Korea, AOL Hong Kong - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 15 Apr 2008 04:31 PM PST

MySpace went live in South Korea today—and head to head with some of the toughest social network competition out there. Forget Facebook, as I heard and saw during my too-brief…

Highfield’s Successor: Who’s In The Frame For BBC’s Top Digital Job? - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 15 Apr 2008 10:24 AM PST

The king is gone, long live… whom exactly? BBC future media and technology director Ashley Highfield’s move to Project Kangaroo opens up perhaps the most powerful position in UK digital…

UK Music Biz Would Rather Tax iPods Than Legitimize Format Shifting - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 15 Apr 2008 08:26 AM PST

The British record industry has challenged a UK government proposal that would legalize “format shifting” from CD to gadgets like iPods - and instead demanded portable music device makers pay…

UK Supermarket Giant Tesco Ramping Up Music, Movie Downloads - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 15 Apr 2008 01:47 AM PST

British supermarket giant Tesco will next month relaunch its music download store to go MP3 and add movies, games and TV shows. The supermarket already operates TescoDownloads.com but the limited…

Google Plans Social Networking, Mobile Investments In China - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 14 Apr 2008 05:21 PM PST

With 26 percent search market share, up from 17 percent a year ago, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has done better than some other Western internet firms in trying to crack the…

WPP Amongst $50 Million Investors In Game Maker Realtime Worlds - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 14 Apr 2008 05:54 AM PST

One way to start playing in in-game advertising - forget middlemen; buy a game maker. WPP has acquired a minority stake in Dundee, Scotland-based game developer Realtime Worlds for $8.1…

BBC Digital Chief Highfield Quits To Lead ITV-BBC Worldwide-Channel 4 JV Kangaroo - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 14 Apr 2008 02:27 AM PST

BBC future media and technology director Ashley Highfield is quitting to become CEO of Project Kangaroo - an upcoming online TV JV between ITV (LSE: ITV), Channel 4 and the…

South Korea’s Pandora Video Sharer Eyeing Internationalization - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 11 Apr 2008 09:41 AM PST

Many of us look to South Korea for what’s next in broadband media, so… what’s next? Pandora TV, a video sharing site launched there in 2004, has just launched in…

EU Parliament Warns Against ISP Monitoring In Music Piracy Fight - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 11 Apr 2008 02:48 AM PST

This could put the cat amongst the pigeons. European Parliament members have voted in favour of outlawing the kind of ISP disconnection policy the French government introduced to fight illegal…

Intel Capital Invests $12 Million In Shanghai Media Group; Establishing Online TV Platform - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 10 Apr 2008 04:08 AM PST

Intel (NSDQ: INTC) Capital, which earlier this week launched a new $500 million China-focused fund, will invest $12 million into a unit of Shanghai Media Group for the establishment of…

Israeli Search Marketer Kenshoo Raises Second Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 09 Apr 2008 10:48 PM PST

Kenshoo, an Israeli search engine marketer, has raised an unspecified second round from VC firm Arts Alliance. The investment follows closely on the heals of its first round, from Sequoia,…

Microsoft On Google-Yahoo Tie-Up: Google To Have 90 Percent Of Ad Market; Market Less Competitive - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 09 Apr 2008 01:45 PM PST

Microsoft has weighed in on this evening’s announcement, claiming that the agreement gives Google (NSDQ: GOOG) 90 percent of the online ad market, and thus makes the market “far less…

Lagardere Buys UK Entertainment News & Community Site DigitalSpy - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 09 Apr 2008 12:28 PM PST

DigitalSpy, one of my favorite UK TV and entertainment news sites, has been bought by Hachette Filipacchi U.K., part of the French media giant Lagardere. The financial details were not…

Industry Moves: Economist CEO Leaving, Replaced By Ex Online Boss - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 09 Apr 2008 11:37 AM PST

The Economist Group CEO Helen Alexander is leaving the publisher after 23 years to become an adviser to private equity house Bain Capital. Her replacement, from July 15, will be…

BBC Brings iPlayer To Wii; ISP Grumbles As Traffic Grows To 17.2 Million Streams, Downloads In March - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 09 Apr 2008 05:33 AM PST

The BBC is launching a version of its iPlayer TV catch-up for Nintendo’s Wii console, the broadcaster announced with the game maker at MipTV. The service will be offered as…

BBC America Assembles Ad Sales Team For First Cross-Platform Deals - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 08 Apr 2008 02:54 PM PST

BBC Worldwide is expanding its North American ad sales operations, allowing for selling ads across BBC.com and its related cable channels for the first time, the commercial arm of UK’s…