Tue Nov 17, 2009 5:57 PM EST
Online social hub MySpace is in talks to acquire struggling free music streaming site imeem, two people familiar with the matter said Tuesday.
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Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:00 PM EDT
A new music feature rolled out by Google Inc. Wednesday will bring its U.S. searchers one click away from listening to a full-length song.
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Wed Oct 28, 2009 12:02 AM EDT
The Walt Disney Co. is releasing an iPhone application that rewards users for poking through the Disney.com Web site and could one day offer exclusive bonuses for activities such as shopping at Disney Stores.
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Mon Oct 26, 2009 11:02 PM EDT
Headbangers will have a reason to steady their gaze a bit starting Tuesday, when rock band Metallica makes its way onto iPhones with a finger-tapping music app called "Tap Tap Revenge: Metallica."
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Sun Oct 25, 2009 2:08 PM EDT
Fans scrambled to see 3-D movies such as "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" in theaters this year and new 3-D televisions could soon have home viewers feeling as if they're surrounded by a spaghetti hurricane on their couches.
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Fri Oct 23, 2009 6:41 PM EDT
The Walt Disney Co. is expanding a refund program for its "Baby Einstein" videos for toddlers in response to challenges about the legitimacy of its educational claims.
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Wed Oct 21, 2009 7:01 PM EDT
Social-networking site MySpace is using its joint venture with recording companies to launch a music video service that will pop into millions of profiles at rival Facebook as well.
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Wed Oct 21, 2009 6:42 PM EDT
Facebook will soon allow friends to send each other 10-cent Web songs to stream online or 90-cent songs in the MP3 format that recipients can download as gifts from online retailer Lala.
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Wed Oct 21, 2009 1:25 PM EDT
Internet power players Google, MySpace and Facebook are adopting strategies to better compete in a music industry that is rapidly shifting online.
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Thu Oct 15, 2009 3:24 PM EDT
Confirming that endorsement deals still have cachet in a recession, "Transformers" star Megan Fox is pulling down a seven-figure payday to model Armani underwear and jeans.
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Mon Oct 12, 2009 6:40 PM EDT
A proposed deal to acquire media giant NBC Universal would give current owner General Electric Co. the ability to unwind its stake over several years, and could see Comcast Corp. commit billions more to the joint venture, a person close to the situation said Monday.
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Mon Oct 12, 2009 5:11 PM EDT
Baseball fans in Los Angeles and New York may be thrilled their teams swept into the league championship series — but for broadcaster TBS, the fun may be over all too soon.
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Fri Oct 2, 2009 7:11 PM EDT
Major TV advertisers are sticking by late night talk show host and comedian David Letterman after he tried to head off bad publicity from a failed extortion attempt by revealing that he had sex with female staffers.
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Wed Sep 30, 2009 11:47 AM EDT
In television's latest quest to discourage viewers from skipping ads, actors from NBC and ABC shows are appearing in character in commercials to interact with products in parallel story lines.
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Mon Sep 28, 2009 8:08 PM EDT
YouTube said Tuesday that music videos from Warner Music Group Corp. will return to the video site in the coming months after a nine-month dispute over splitting ad revenue.
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Thu Sep 17, 2009 2:17 PM EDT
Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. has developed a new way to resell tickets that shuts out the brokers and scalpers it has long scorned.
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Thu Sep 10, 2009 12:01 AM EDT
RealNetworks Inc.'s subscription music service Rhapsody has been approved for use on iPhones and iPod Touches, the first time Apple Inc. has allowed an on-demand music streaming program on its devices in the United States.
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Wed Sep 9, 2009 3:31 PM EDT
Google Inc. gives away a lot of good stuff for free.
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Wed Sep 2, 2009 6:49 PM EDT
YouTube, Google Inc.'s online video streaming service, is in talks with Hollywood studios to rent new release movies online, according to people familiar with the talks.
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Wed Sep 2, 2009 12:27 PM EDT
A funny thing happened on the way to remaking the Toon Disney channel into one that catered to "tween" boys: It got a lot more popular with girls.
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Thu Aug 20, 2009 2:21 PM EDT
Rupert Murdoch, the chief executive and controlling shareholder of News Corp., saw his compensation drop 40 percent in fiscal 2009 as weak earnings reduced his incentive pay, according to an Associated Press review of regulatory filings.
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Fri Aug 14, 2009 3:35 PM EDT
American companies counting on a favorable trade ruling against China to boost sales of CDs, DVDs, books and video games will need a crackdown on rampant piracy before they can reap big benefits.
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Fri Aug 7, 2009 3:52 PM EDT
Hollywood studios are split over Redbox, the $1-per-night DVD rental kiosk company: They could supply it with cheap wholesale discs and ride its massive growth, or starve it in the hopes of preserving higher-priced purchases.
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Thu Aug 6, 2009 12:07 AM EDT
Epix, the fledgling pay TV channel being launched in October by Paramount Pictures, Lionsgate and MGM Studios, took a step closer to legitimacy by signing its first deal with a movie production company outside its ownership group.
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Sun Aug 2, 2009 1:35 PM EDT
Down a crowded merchant-lined street in downtown Los Angeles called Santee Alley, a handful of vendors are selling Michael Jackson T-shirts. Two shirts memorialize his passing, but one gets the date of his death wrong. The other has no collar tag.
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