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Vivendi Takes Lead in Bid for EMI Music Unit (The Wall Street Journal)
Vivendi SA’s Universal Music Group is in advanced talks to buy EMI Group’s recorded-music unit from Citigroup Inc., moving to the head of the pack in an auction it had only rec... More
Walmart, Costco, More Tip Black Friday Deals (PC Magazine)
With Black Friday about three weeks away, news about what certain retailers might be offering come Nov. 25 is leaking out, and JC Penney, Walmart, and Costco are just some of the s... More
Best Buy buys out U.S. mobile partner for $1.3 billion (Reuters)
Top electronics chain Best Buy Co is buying its British partner out of a fast-growing U.S. mobile phone joint venture for $1.3 billion and scrapping plans for a chain of European m... More
Who Is The Target Audience Of Barnes & Noble’s Nook Tablet? (paidContent)
When Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch introduced the Simple Touch Reader this past May, he described it as an e-reader easy enough for your grandmother to use. She may not be t... More
British Labels to ISPs: Block the Pirate Bay, or We’re Suing (Digital Music News)
This all started when the High Court in London ordered BT to block Newzbin2, a site known for indexing copyrighted content. Now, it’s time for a much bigger fish: ahead of the we... More
‘Immortals’ rethought 3D process (Variety)
3D or not 3D? That’s the question facing a lot of filmmakers as they weigh the extra costs of shooting in 3D or converting 2D footage to 3D against the potential box office upsid... More
At Sony Music, a Plan to Dominate the Industry (The New York Times)
[Doug] Morris, one of music’s reigning patriarchs, took over Sony in July, after 15 years at Universal. He is widely seen as the most capable hand to steady Sony’s music divisi... More
YouTube Content Guy Robert Kyncl Expands His Portfolio (All Things Digital)
YouTube is busy striking and announcing content deals, but it has found time to promote the guy who’s in charge of all of that. Robert Kyncl, who came over from Netflix a year ag... More
American Express Launches $100M Fund To Invest In Digital Commerce Startups (TechCrunch)
Recently, American Express has been pushing its own internal digital commerce initiatives including the company’s digital wallet, Serve. Serve integrates a variety of payment opt... More
Disney and YouTube Make a Video Deal (The New York Times)
The deal, set to be announced on Monday, is small on its surface: Disney Interactive Media and YouTube, a division of Google, will spend a combined $10 million to $15 million on or... More
Viacom, Time Warner Cable iPad Dispute Heats Up (The Hollywood Reporter)
The dispute between Viacom and Time Warner over streamed content of cable channels including MTV and Comedy Central on iPads is not over. Not by any stretch of the imagination….... More
Netflix And MGM Ink Exclusive Streaming Deal For UK And Ireland (paidContent)
Netflix is laying some content groundwork for its launch in the UK and Ireland, expected in early 2012: today it announced a deal with MGM to stream first-run feature films in the ... More
Piracy to Impact Home Entertainment Recovery
Verdict, the independent retail analysts, has forecast that piracy will continue to impact the home entertainment market and slow its recovery. The company's new report on Global H... More
Akamai to Host Free Media Analytics Webinar
Akamai has announced a free webinar entitled "Driving Audience Engagement with Media Analytics" on Weds, Nov, 9 at 11 am PT and 2 pm ET. Presenters include: Emily Glass, Sr. Pr... More
NARM’s Entertainment & Technology Law Conference Series Heads To The Cloud (Billboard)
The National Association of Recording Merchandisers, the music business trade association, presented its latest Entertainment & Technology Law Conference on Thursday [Nov. 3] i... More
Amazon stokes Kindle Fire as Barnes & Noble preps response (GeekWire)
Amazon.com this weekend released a new television ad promoting its upcoming Kindle Fire by tying the $199 tablet to its e-commerce heritage. The move comes on the eve of an event w... More
Hillary Clinton Says Anti-Piracy & Internet Freedoms Are ‘Mutually Consistent’ (Digital Music News)
Can you clamp down on piracy, without clamping down on free speech and internet freedoms? In a recent letter sent to Representative Howard Berman (D-California), Secretary of State... More
Retailers report solid sales gains in October (WSJ)
October revenue at stores open at least a year — an indicator of a retailer's health — rose 3.7 percent from the same month a year ago, according to the International Council o... More
NinjaVideo Co-Founder Pleads Guilty to Copyright Infringement (the Wrap)
A co-founder of pirate website NinjaVideo.net pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiracy to commit copyright infringement. According to the Motion Picture Association of America, Jus... More
Chuck D. Sues Universal Music Over Digital Royalties (New York Times)
Chuck D. of Public Enemy has become the latest major artist to sue the Universal Music Group over royalties for digital music. In a class action suit, the artist argues that Univer... More
