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		<title><![CDATA[Reports: Vivendi-GE Reach Tentative Agreement On NBCU Sale]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The companies aren&#8217;t commenting but it sounds like Vivendi (EPA: VIV) and General Electric may have reached an agreement that will pave the way for the much-discussed deal that would make Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) a majority owner of NBC Universal (NYSE: GE). The Wall Street Journal is reporting that...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:35:52 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Game On: hi5 Brings In WildTangent Founder Alex St. John As President, CTO]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Another big management change for social network hi5: The company has hired Alex St. John, founder and former CEO of casual gamer WildTangent, as its new president and CTO.St. John pictured joins as hi5 continues to try to transform into a &#8220;social entertainment&#8221; company that generates profits by getting...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:23:09 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ubisoft Swings To $73 Million Loss; Pins Hopes To Simultaneous Game, Movie Releases]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Paris-based game publisher Ubisoft swung to a $72.8 million (?52 million), or 48-cents per diluted share loss for the first half of its 2009-2010 fiscal year (ended Sept. 30). That&#8217;s in contrast to a $33.6 million (?24 million) profit for the same time period last year, but the loss...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:36:48 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Track Entertainment CEO Tells Maxim To Accept $40 Million Bid Or Close Up Shop]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Andrew Fox, CEO of lifestyle media and events company Track Entertainment, has offered Maxim magazine&#8217;s owners an ultimatum: accept his $40 million offer to buy the title or face a possible shutdown by March, the NY Post Page Six reports. Fox claims that in his hands, he can make...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:19:42 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Shanda's Hurray Acquires Video Site Ku6.com]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ China&#8217;s Shanda (NSDQ: SNDA) is adding online video to its growing digital media empire, through the acquisition of user-gen video site Ku6.com. It&#8217;s an all-stock deal; Ku6 will keep its name, becoming a subsidiary of Hurray, the mobile content company Shanda bought out this summer. Full financials were not...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:35:18 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Another One Bites The Dust: BitTorrent Giant Mininova Forced To Go Legal]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It calls itself &#8220;the ultimate BitTorrent source&#8221;, but P2P tracker Mininova has now removed almost all links to copyrighted content after complying with a cease-and-desist court ruling in August from Dutch entertainment rightsholder group Brein.As the site&#8217;s staff write in a blog post, only content uploaded via the site&#8217;s...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:33:51 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The WoW Paywall: What Newspapers Can Learn From Orcs And Dwarves]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fpaidcontent.org%2Farticle%2F419-the-wow-paywall-what-newspapers-can-learn-from-orcs-and-dwarves%2F&siteid=23&tag=contentnext]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Newspapers haven&#8217;t yet found the secret sauce of getting consumers to pay online, but games publishers certainly have. While Rupert Murdoch delays his grand paywall scheme and local papers start to tentatively get in on the act, Activision-Blizzard&#8217;s World of Warcraft celebrates its fifth birthday this week: its 12...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:13:01 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Machinima.com Adds $1.7 Million, Launches Online Video Game Awards]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fpaidcontent.org%2Farticle%2F419-machinima.com-adds-1.7-million-launches-online-video-game-awards%2F&siteid=23&tag=contentnext]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Video game-centric online video and original content company Machinima.com has raised $1.7 million in funding, per an SEC filing. Chairman and CEO Allen DeBevoise said the money came from previous backer MK Capital; the company is calling it an add-on to its first round, with the potential to raise...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:00:05 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[More MMO M&A In Russia: Naspers Buying Astrum]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Russian online games is a sector investors should be keeping a close eye on&#8230; South African media conglomerate Naspers has been granted anti-trust permission to buy between 38 percent and 100 percent of Russian online games developer Astrum Online Entertainment from majority shareholder Digital Sky Technologies.As Kommersant via Yakov...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:07:07 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Xbox Connection Funnels A Million New Subscribers To Last.fm]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fpaidcontent.org%2Farticle%2F419-xbox-connection-funnels-a-million-new-subscribers-to-last.fm%2F&siteid=23&tag=contentnext]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ CBS should be pleased with its choice to allow Microsoft to sync Xbox LIVE to Last.fm, as the partnership has already netted the streaming music service nearly a million new subscribers. Last.fm went live on Xbox last Tuesday, and both companies are already hyping the deal as a success...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:10:03 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Swedish Music Biz Claims Piracy Victory As Digital Music Sales Increase 80 Percent]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Has the tide turned against bedroom P2P file-sharers in the music industry&#8217;s epic fight against piracy? The IFPI&#8217;s branch in Sweden&#8212;the home of illegal file-sharing&#8212;is reporting that Swedish music sales rose 18 percent in the first nine months of the year, after seven years of consecutive decline, following the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:22:37 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[WMG Swings To Loss On Severence Charges, Weak Demand; Digital Rises 10 Percent]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ General music industry woes, along with $14 million in severance costs, pushed Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) to a net loss in Q3. In the meantime, revenues were barely up 1 percent to $861 million. Amid WMG&#8217;s general weakness in Q3, digital revenues continued to rise. The segment&#8217;s revenue...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:11:33 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Playboy's Deal Coming This Week;  Magazine To Be Managed by American Media]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Playboy Enterprises (NYSE: PLA) deal is about to close, paidContent has learned, and the buyer is Iconix Brand Group, the London-based owner of London Fog, Joe Boxer, Ecko Unltd and others. What isn&#8217;t clear is the structure of the deal, whether it is a full buyout&#8212;or if Playboy...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:34:54 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Gaming Roundup: PPV On The Wii; EA's Facebook 'Hell']]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ &#8212;Wii Gets PPV in Japan: Nintendo has partnered with 12 media companies to launch pay-per-view streaming service on the Wii. The content includes episodes of Sesame Street, among other movies and TV shows; media partners include TV Asahi, NTV and NHK Enterprises. Shows range in price from 30 to...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Zynga Launches Standalone Game Site, Sheds Light On Virtual Goods Business]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Seemingly unfazed by a looming class-action lawsuit triggered by allegations of misleading ads, social gamer Zynga has launched FarmVille.com, its first standalone game site. Previously, players had to be fully logged in to Facebook or MySpace to play a Zynga game; the new FarmVille.com site uses Facebook Connect to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:02:30 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fair Do's? A Million Spotify Streams Earned Gaga $167]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ How much money do artists really make from Spotify? According to Swedish paper Expressen, 2009&#8217;s standout breakthrough artist Lady Gaga and her songwriter Redone made just SEK1150 (£100.76; $166.56) in songwriting royalties from one million Spotify plays of her hit Poker Face in Sweden in the first five months...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:59:30 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[EMI Finds Music Sales Actually Growing, Despite Terra's Troubles]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Terra Firma may have written off 90 percent of its investment in the label after Citigroup refused to ignore about half the debt it provided for the deal, but - slowly, slowly - EMI Group is turning a corner.Full-year earnings to March 31, 2009, are up 7.4 percent to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:03:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Finally, MySpace Music Licenses 'Fifth Label' Merlin; Reins in Fiercest Critic]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ MySpace Music has now finalized a global licensing deal with the labels represented by Merlin, according to details tipped Friday to Digital Music News.  Both companies confirmed the relationship, thanks to resolution on a major sticking point related to equity. MySpace noted that Merlin - and other indies -...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:10:10 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why Sony's Planned Music Store Won't Start Out As A Serious iTunes Challenger]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Sony keeps flip-flopping over adding music downloads to the PlayStation Network PSN. After scrapping plans to add a music store to the gaming network&#8212;complete with the ability for gamers to port tracks to the handheld PSP&#8212;comes news that the company will indeed expand the PSN into a full digital...]]></description>
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