Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris can never be accused of being shy, or, putting his foot in, oh well...in an extensive interview with Billboard, he talks about the digital…

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Play.com has signed up with all four major music labels to offer more than 3 million DRM-free tracks on its PlayDigital music download site, in a direct challenge to iTunes…

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-- ESPN (NYSE: DIS) signs distribution deal with myvideorights.com: Online digital video distributor Myvideorights.com, has struck a five year distribution deal with U.S. sports broadcaster ESPN International. Myvideorights.com will distribute…

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One week into its life as a fully-fledged, all-singing ad network, AOL’s (NYSE: TWX) (NYSE:TWX) Platform-A has secured a big-name client in the shape of Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG. According…

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EMI is planning to launch its own consumer-facing portal to market its artists’ music directly to fans online, reports FT.com. EMI.com will launch before Christmas, and will let users buy…

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T-Mobile USA has expanded its partnership with the NBA to include the NBA’s minor league and is also joining NBA Europe Live as an official partner in the host cities…

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More than sixty well known musicians have launched the Featured Artists’ Coalition to fight for their rights in what they see as the rapidly changing “digital landscape.” As Brian Message,…

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European digital “label” Believe Digital has a two-fer this week: the acquisition of MTunes, a German digital distribution company with Media2Radio, and a $6.5 million second round. The combined company…

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I took the front-row at London’s charming Camden Palace gig venue for Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Remix - an event with announcements the handset maker had shrouded in mystery but which…

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Troubled ITV (LSE: ITV) will launch a new mobile site for its Friends Reunited network in the next few months - and plans to use football to popularise the medium.…

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Game Group is treating the economic turmoil like a first-person shooter - and it’s winning. The video game retailer got record £36.4 million pre-tax profits in the first half of…

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By Jemima Kiss: Norway is pushing ahead with its mission to get Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to change its long-running locked-down content system. Consumer ombudsman Erik Thon is taking the firm…

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NetPlay TV, an interactive gaming producer that runs roulette, bingo and other games across digisat and the web, took last year’s £900,000 loss in positive territory, reporting £1 million earnings…

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Heaven only knows where they got this figure, but market researcher TNS Technology reckons the emerging unlimited mobile music services like Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) Comes With Music an SonyEricsson’s (NSDQ:…

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We’ve heard these rumours, too; now someone’s also told Reuters that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) will use its event next week to unveil its Tube touch-screen phone. The event next Thursday…

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Merlin, the new “fifth major” label representing independents with nine percent of US digital music sales, has blasted MySpace Music for allowing the Big Four to profit at indies’ expense.…

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The BBC continues its push into mobile. The company announced on its blog that listeners of the BBC’s radio programmes will be able to download the shows on demand on…

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Big Brother maker Endemol is making a new Endemol Sport unit with the aim of producing sports magazine shows and live sports coverage as a “worldwide, multimedia sports business”. A…

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Update: As of about midnight PST, the site is live. We’ll have reactions and a full review later on, after we’ve taken a closer look. Original Post: MySpace’s long-awaited music…

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Everyone, by now, is familiar with Radiohead’s no-label, direct-to-fan experiment last year. But a growing number of operators is playing with different interpretations of a thesis that’s been around as…

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-- Music subs chart: The Official Charts Company is making the first chart for subscription music services - a sign that model is set to rise in the near future.…

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Billy Bragg used our EconMusic conference in London to urge the emerging wave of web services to pay artists fairly for using their songs. ”Everyone’s making a shitload of money,…

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Cautious about being seen to devalue music, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) used our London EconMusic conference today to stress that tunes via its upcoming Comes With Music scheme will be anything…

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Just one outtake out of many from the energetic discussion about social media and music taking place now at EconMusic. Billy Bragg: “That’s my income stream you’re pissing with.”

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Mobile music, the art of welding a Walkman to a handset, has so much promise - but in most countries outside the Far East it’s still just that. Two thirds…

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