The head of Warner Music Group’s (NYSE: WMG) aggressive digital music strategy is leaving, according to the Wall Street Journal. Alejandro Zubillaga, a brother-in-law of WMG Chairman Edgar Bronfman, Jr.,…

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paidContent has learned that News Corp (NYSE: NWS). is pursuing a music joint venture for MySpace—similar to Hulu, its video joint venture with NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), but with variations…

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EMI has licensed Jamba to provide what the News Corp (NYSE: NWS). and Verisign-owned mobile entertainment JV says is the label’s first DRM-free repertoire in Europe to cross both mobile…

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Christina Norman, president of MTV since 2005 and an MTVN vet of 17 years, is leaving the Viacom unit at the end of the month. Van Toffler, president of MTV…

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U.S. Department of Justice has begun an inquiry into a new JV headed by Vivendi’s (EPA: VIV) Universal Music Group, along with three other labels...this is the “Total Music” project…

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Spin Digital and MySpace have teamed up to put Spin online as a digital magazine, not just a companion site. The interactive reading experience, powered by Texterity, offers links on…

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Napster (NSDQ: NAPS) narrowed its net loss to $2.8 million ($0.06/share) in Q4, compared to a net loss of $9.5 million ($0.22 /share) last year. Revenues continued to grow, reaching…

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“Growth, particularly mobile, remained on a slower trajectory,” Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) CEO Edgar Bronfman, Jr. warned analysts and investors during the earnings call for the quarter ending Dec.…

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Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) digital revenue grew nine percent in the last three months of 2007 to $141 million. Digital now makes up 14 percent of total group revenue…

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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is treading where others fear to tread: the Chinese digital music market, where search leader Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) leads the pack with borderline business of linking to…

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The music industry is turning up the legal heat on Chinese websites it reckons are flouting its IP. First, Universal, Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG and Warner have filed suit against…

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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), which has officially closed down its premium online music service Yahoo Unlimited (we reported on it first here), has sold the service to RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) and…

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Updated: Has been confirmed by RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) music PR...offices affected are Seattle, New York and San Francisco. These layoffs happened two weeks ago, and affects about 10 people, not…

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Media conglomerate Vivendi (EPA: VIV) has released preliminary Q407 data showing revenue of €6.0 billion ($8.9 billion), an 8.5 percent year-on-year increase over €5.5 billion ($8.17 billion). On a full-year…

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The New York Daily News and EMI have cooked up a promo for this Sunday (Super Bowl) and Feb. 10 (Grammys): three free downloads for readers of each day’s NYDN.…

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-- *CBS Interactive* gets official Grammy role: The digital arm of CBS (NYSE: CBS) has been named the official online partner of The Recording Academy to distribute Grammy-related assets from…

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Right now, it only counts Universal amongst its major-label suppliers, but ad-supported free music distributor SpiralFrog is in Cannes to woo the rest. As VP Matthew Stern puts it, “That’s…

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U2’s manager has called on ISPs to police subscribers’ online activities and kick off illegal file sharers. “Their snouts have been feeding at our trough for free for too long,”…

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Social networking service Imeem has made its first acquisition, a small one in online social music service Anywhere.FM. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The San Francisco-based Imeem has…

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Qtrax, a new P2P service offering free ad-funded music, spent big marketing bucks to set up big expectations here in France - but, despite being due for download at midnight…

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This year may go down as the year consumers started getting free music en masse. Not that music itself is free, of course - just that a wave of companies…

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YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley called on Europe to simplify its content licensing systems. “It would be great, at this point, on the publishing side, if they were able to streamline…

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A slightly vaporware announcement from Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN), no doubt trying to piggyback the Midem music conference starting this weekend in Cannes (our UK editor Robert Andrews is on the…

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See the related comment by Jean-Bernard Levy, CEO of Vivendi (EPA: VIV) (which owns Universal Music Group), which triggered this poll (RSS readers will have to click through). surveys -…

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Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG reckons its digital music revenue will first meet that of its physical sales next year.  “It’s rapidly going to 50 percent in the US - in…

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