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AOL Time Warner Q4 loss widens on merger costs
News AOL Time Warner, the world's biggest media and Internet company, said its fourth-quarter loss widened to US$1.09 billion because of costs related to America Online's US$124 billion purchase of Time Warner.
Napster faces deadline today to block 135,000 songs
News Napster Inc faces a deadline today of 5 pm California time to block users from trading 135,000 songs on its online music service. Failure to comply may lead a federal judge to hold the startup in contempt, and to fines or a shutdown, lawyers said.
EMI forms music Internet venture in Taiwan with GigaMedia
News EMI Group Plc, the music industry's third-biggest company, has formed an Internet venture with GigaMedia Ltd to boost online music sales on Taiwan. The financial terms of the alliance were not disclosed.
YouTube, Warner Music feud nearing an end
News Two companies have reached terms on most of the major issues and it appears Warner Music's videos will return to YouTube within weeks.
Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Music, Video, Universal Music Group, EMI Group Plc., Sony Pictures, Warner Music Group Corp., Sony BMG Music Entertainment, YouTube Inc., content company
Pirate Bay trial coming to a close
News Defense attorneys make their final argments, after prosecutors call for jail timefor defendants.
Tags: Copyright, Lawsuits, Piracy, BitTorrent, EMI Group Plc., Google Inc., prosecutor, attorney, Columbia Pictures, 20th Century Fox
Insiders question label deal for Pirate Bay bidder
News Just as the press began eying Global Gaming Factory with suspicion, it came up with funding, a potential record deal and potential buyers. How much of that was real?
Tags: Web 2.0, BitTorrent, EMI Group Plc., Grokster Ltd., Investor, Stock, entertainment, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Sweden, Internet Cafe
Pirate Bay: In search of an unbiased judge
News The judge tapped to investigate whether the judge in the high-profile Pirate Bay case in Sweden was biased, has been removed for potential bias. Now, the judge replacing her could face the same fate.
Tags: Piracy, Lawsuits, Verdict, Universal Music Group, EMI Group Plc., Warner Music Group Corp., Internet provider, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, copyright law, Sweden
Universal Music, YouTube near deal on music video site
News Vevo would be the name of a new Web site jointly run by Universal Music Group and YouTube, according to sources.
Tags: Copyright, Music, Music Video, Universal Music Group, EMI Group Plc., Video, digital music, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, MTV, Talks
Project Playlist and Sony BMG strike deal
News This is the first major-label deal for the social music Web site, which has been hammered by lawsuits and seen its widgets banned from MySpace.
Tags: Web sites, Music, MySpace, Universal Music Group, EMI Group Plc., Warner Music Group Corp., RIAA, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Facebook, ComScore Networks Inc.
Talks break down; Warner Music pulls videos from YouTube
News Warner walks away from YouTube at a time when Google's video site is renegotiating licensing deals with the four top music labels.
Tags: Music, Search, Google Inc., Universal Music Group, EMI Group Plc., Warner Music Group Corp., Video, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Records
Morgan Stanley exec is new Google CIO
News Ben Fried, who oversaw core computing operations for the financial service firm, will become Google's next CIO, CNET News.com has learned.
Tags: Leadership, Growth strategies and tools, Business development/management, Google Inc., EMI Group Plc., Morgan Stanley, CIO, software, job, managing director
September 9, 2009, could be a Beatles perfect storm
News For the first time, the Beatles' entire catalog will be released, in stereo, in one fully digitally re-mastered collection. Will an iTunes announcement happen the same day?
Tags: Gamer, Game players, Games, Apple Inc., EMI Group Plc., Apple iTunes, DVD, entertainment, Steve Jobs, Games
RFID can disrupt medical tech, claim researchers
News Dutch scientists say electromagnetic interference generated by the track-and-trace chips can disrupt medical devices, posing a threat to patients.
Tags: RFID, EMI Group Plc., Medical Device, radio frequency, Environment, Silicon.com, network, researcher, patient, scientist
EMI forms music Internet venture in Taiwan with GigaMedia
News EMI Group Plc, the music industry's third-biggest company, has formed an Internet venture with GigaMedia Ltd to boost online music sales on Taiwan. The financial terms of the alliance were not disclosed.
Napster, other sites said to cut sales of singles by 14%
News Napster Inc and other Web sites offering free access to recorded music contributed to a 14 percent fall in sales of single recordings in 2000, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry said.
