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Trans World Entertainment Announces Second Quarter Results (Trans World Entertainment)
Trans World Entertainment Corp. today reported financial results for its second quarter ended July 30, 2011. For the second quarter of 2011, the company reported an $8.5 million or... More
Cloud Outages Reinforce Need for Care when Negotiating Service Level Agreements (Windows IT Pro)
Another month, another set of outages come along to delight those who follow Microsoft’s journey to cloud nirvana ... More
YouTube, Music Publishers Settle Copyright Beef (CNET)
A group of music publishers that joined a class action lawsuit filed against YouTube in 2007 have reached a settlement with Google’s video-sharing site. The National Music Publis... More
Amazon Sites Visited by One in Five Global Internet Users in June (comScore)
comScore, Inc. today (Aug. 17) released a report on selected global retail and auction sites based on data from the comScore Media Metrix service. The study found that of the desti... More
Google Launches A Music Blog To Remind People That Google Music Beta Still Exists (TechCrunch)
Music Beta, remember it? It’s the online music locker service that Google unveiled at I/O in May. But the keyword in the title very much remains “Beta” — as in, not in any ... More
Cyberlocker Battle: Hotfile Threatens to Countersue Warner Bros. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Hollywood has made a stink about so-called "cyberlockers," file-hosting websites that allow users personal storage that often gets used to share copyrighted movies, music and games... More
OuchPad: Best Buy Sitting on a Pile of Unsold HP Tablets (All Things Digital)
According to one source who has seen internal HP reports, Best Buy has taken delivery of 270,000 TouchPads and has so far managed to sell only 25,000, or less than 10 percent of th... More
It’s iPad or Nothing, Survey Says (CNET)
The tablet market continues to be summed up like this: the iPad and everything else. And everything else doesn't amount to much. That’s according to a recent survey conducted by ... More
What’s the Most Popular Channel on YouTube? (Advertising Age)
According to comScore, which will start publishing data on YouTube's channel partners tomorrow, 40% of YouTube's audience clicked over in July to watch music videos, more than any ... More
Palisades Tartan CEO: London Fire ‘Devastated’ Business (Home Media Magazine)
European music distributors accounted for the majority of the 25 million-plus discs destroyed Aug. 8 when rioters set fire to a Sony DADC warehouse in London. But there were DVDs a... More
Fox Starts Its Web Pullback, and ABC Gets Ready to Follow (All Things Digital)
Yesterday (Aug. 15) Fox followed through with its previously announced plans to keep its new shows off the Web for 8 days, except for Hulu Plus and Dish Network subscribers. Disney... More
Image Entertainment Reports 33% Increase in Revenues for Fiscal 2012 First Quarter (Image Entertainment)
Image Entertainment, Inc., a leading independent licensee and distributor of entertainment programming in North America, today reported financial results for its first fiscal quart... More
Analyst: Google’s Motorola Deal Good for Media Giants, TiVo, Bad for Netflix (The Hollywood Reporter)
A day after Google unveiled a $12.5 billion deal to acquire Motorola Mobility, Wall Street on Tuesday continued to discuss its possible fallout. In first reactions on Monday, obser... More
Amazon Cracking Down on Spammy ‘Private Label’ e-Books (Ars Technica)
Amazon has begun to crack down on authors who upload copy-cat “private label rights” e-books via the Kindle Direct Publishing service. According to an e-mail sent to authors wh... More
Time Warner Cable Digital Customers Can Now Watch Their Favorite Fox Shows On Demand (Time Warner Cable)
Time Warner Cable today announced the addition of FOX programming to its On Demand lineup. Digital customers now have instant access to Fox primetime shows in addition to popular s... More
Electronic Arts Upbeat about Holiday Season Sales (Reuters)
Video games publisher Electronic Arts is upbeat about Christmas holiday sales as it expects to release top titles and prepares its most high profile launch ever: “Star Wars: The ... More
Google to Buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5B (CNET)
Google said today that it had agreed to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, adding valuable intellectual property and getting the Internet search giant directly into the hands... More
New Apple iPhones, iCloud Coming Sept. 7? (Billboard)
For [the] last several years, Apple has used an early September media event to introduce some sort of new music service, feature or device, and if the rumors swirling about today (... More
How the Internet has All but Destroyed the Market for Films, Music and Newspapers (Robert Levine, via The Guardian)
The public hasn’t lost its appetite for television, journalism or film; shows, articles and movies reach more consumers than ever online. The problem is that, although the Intern... More
