M+E News Headlines
Blockbuster to Pull Plug in Canada (The Globe and Mail)
Although 55 parties mulled buying the chain – 14 of them made offers and eight of them were for all or almost all of the assets – none of the proposals were acceptable to Block... More
O.K., Downloaders, Let’s Try This Song Again (The New York Times)
The digital music landscape is littered with the corpses of start-ups that tried and failed to offer free music downloads. One of them was Qtrax, which imploded amid controversy an... More
Sony Warehouse Riot Fire Was Not a ‘Professional Heist,’ PIAS MD Insists (Billboard)
A senior executive at [music distributor] PIAS has categorically dismissed reports that the Sony warehouse destroyed during last month’s UK riots was targeted by “professional ... More
Amazon’s New Kindle Book Promotion: The Breakdown (paidContent)
A new section of the Kindle store now offers “100 Kindle books for $3.99 or less,” selected by editors each month. A look at the September list reveals some interesting factoid... More
Apple Puts Old Version of Final Cut Pro Back on Sale (Mashable)
Apple has agreed to make older versions of Final Cut Studio 3 available for purchase, following several months of customer backlash against the radically redesigned Final Cut Pro X... More
Amazon Offers to Build Facilities in Bid to End California Sales Tax Fight (Los Angeles Times)
Amazon.com Inc. is offering to build at least two distribution centers and hire as many as 7,000 workers if lawmakers back away — at least temporarily — from trying to force th... More
Apple Promotes iTunes’ Cue (Billboard)
Anyone involved in the digital side of the music biz probably knows Apple's Eddy Cue, who until recently was VP of iTunes. No longer. As one of the first executive moves of incomin... More
iTunes Match to Be Download-Only After All? (Video)(Insanely Great Mac)
One of the hazards of getting [excited] about pre-release software is sometimes things change. In the latest iOS 5 Beta 7 released Wednesday, there are a few tweaks it seems to how... More
Elvis Presley Estate Sues to Recover Ringtone Revenue (The Hollywood Reporter)
Alleging that the iconic Elvis Presley "was unjustly exploited during his lifetime by his record company," the King's estate has announced a multimillion dollar lawsuit filed in Ge... More
Despite Apple’s Denial, iTunes Match is Streaming (MacRumors)
Yesterday (Aug. 29), we reported that the developer beta of Apple’s iTunes Match appeared to show options for both streaming and downloading content from the cloud to a user’s ... More
Subscription Movie Service Moviepass Gets a Second Chance (GigaOm)
After a false start earlier this summer, Moviepass might finally be able to launch its subscription movie ticket service, thanks to a partnership with theater voucher provider Holl... More
Facebook Plans to Launch Music Platform in September (CNBC)
Facebook plans to launch a music platform at its f8 conference in San Francisco on 9/22, a source with knowledge of the plans tells CNBC. The social network’s music platform laun... More
Carl Icahn Ends Fight to Seize Control of Lions Gate (Los Angeles Times)
Carl Icahn has given up on his long and costly attempt to capture a Hollywood lion. Ending a three-year battle that included a trio of lawsuits and tender offers, and nearly $25 mi... More
Lil Wayne’s ‘Carter IV’ Now Aiming For 850,000 Debut (Billboard)
Yesterday (Aug. 29), initial first-week sales projections for Lil Wayne’s “Tha Carter IV” were hovering in the 700,000-850,000 range, but now, after a full day’s worth of s... More
Bayfiles: The Pirate Bay Founders Launch File-Hosting Site (TorrentFreak)
Bayfiles works similarly to other one-click-hosting services such as Megaupload, RapidShare and Hotfile. With just a single click, users can upload files to the Bayfiles server, an... More
Copyright Office Advocates Eliminating Compulsory License (Los Angeles Times)
An arcane but critical copyright law is under attack by a key government agency. The U.S. Copyright Office, which advises Congress on copyright issues, is proposing that lawmakers ... More
As Green As It Gets: 100% Recycled and Carbon Free Packaged CDs and DVDs (Sunlyte LLC)
Sunlyte LLC (Kennebunkport, Maine) is joining forces with EDC (Langenhagen, Germany) and shorewood.blueprint (Middlesex, UK) to form the Sunlyte Alliance....The Sunlyte Alliance of... More
iPad Sales Accelerating on Faltering Competition (All Things Digital)
Launching the second iteration of the iPad earlier this year, Apple CEO Steve Jobs proclaimed 2011 the year of the iPad 2. So it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to hear that... More
For Wal-Mart, a Rare Online Success (The Wall Street Journal)
“The business we’re in today, offering first-run movies a la carte, is doing very well right now and has tripled so far this year,” Vudu General Manager Edward Lichty said. �... More
Hurt by ‘The Hurt Locker:’ Why IP Addresses Aren’t Enough to Find File-Swappers (Ars Technica)
IP addresses have real uses when it comes to identifying Internet activity, but they work best when paired with targeted investigation rather than as “spray-and-pray” shotgun-s... More
