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Digital-Only Haiti Benefit Album to Debut at #1
Los Angeles
- The digital-only benefit album featuring live performances from last Friday's
"Hope For Haiti Now" telethon will be the top-selling album this week,
boasting sales...
Apple Unveils "iPad" Touch-screen Tablet Computer
San Francisco - Apple (NASD: AAPL) on Wednesday
unveiled its long-anticipated tablet computer, the "iPad," at a media
event in San Francisco.
The device, which will cost...
PRS for Music Inks Pan-European Licensing Deal with iTunes
London - U.K. collecting
society PRS for Music, which represents 65,000 songwriters and music
publishers, has signed a pan-European licensing agreement with Apple's (NASD: AAPL) iTunes
Store. The...
SCOTUS Declines Sony Appeal; Launch Not "Interactive Service"
Washington
- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from major record
label Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG, letting stand a lower court's...
Labels Lose $9 Million Suit Against Baidu Over MP3 "Deep Links"
Beijing
- A Chinese court has ruled that search engine Baidu (NASD: BIDU) is not infringing the
copyrights of major record labels by providing "deep links" to
unauthorized...
Vodafone Claims 450,000 European Music Service Subscribers
London - European mobile
network operator Vodafone (NASD: VOD) has attracted nearly 450,000 customers to its music
subscription services, including 100,000 in December alone, and now claims...
Apple Profits Up 50% in Q1; iPhone Sales Near 9 Million
Cupertino,
Calif. - Apple (NASD: AAPL) sold nearly 9
million iPhones during its fiscal first quarter ended Dec. 26, while iPod sales
fell 8% to 21 million...
Liberty Media Looks to Boost Live Nation Stake to 34.9%
Englewood,
Colo. - Liberty Media (NASD: LINTA), the media
conglomerate controlled by John Malone, whose holdings include Starz, Overture
Films and QVC, on Tuesday announced its intention to...
MySpace, SoundExchange Team to Source Unpaid Artists
Cannes, France - News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) MySpace
social network has partnered with royalty collection and distribution agency
SoundExchange to search for artists who may be owed...
Shazam ID Service Driving 300,000 Song Purchases Daily
Cannes, France - Mobile music discovery service Shazam
is generating 300,000 track purchases each day from users of the service, CEO
Andrew Fisher said at the...
