UK satellite TV company BSkyB is teaming up with Universal Music to launch a new digital music store. The new unnamed venture, in which BSkyB is the majority shareholder and Universal is an equity partner, will launch in the UK...
Warner Music Group is opening its catalogue for Nokia's yet-to-be-launched music service, Comes With Music, becoming the third major label to sign up for the product after Universal and Sony BMG. Comes With Music, expected to launch in the second half of 2008, will offer mobile subscribers unlimited music...
Chinese portal Baidu is partnering with three local music labels to offer copyrighted songs on its music-streaming service, reports Variety Asia without quoting its sources. Under the deal, Emperor Entertainment Group, Shanghai Huayi Group and Ocean Butterflies Best Hits Karaoke are giving Baidu rights to use MP3 files, music...
The article refers to music licensing. FullAudio, headquartered in Chicago, is one of many start-ups vying for market share of the post-Napster digital music download business and the Universal Music pact is the third with a 'Big Five' record label. The company also has distribution rights from EMI Publishing Group...
NEW DIGITAL DEALS WITH JOHN MICHAEL MONTGOMERY, JIMMY BUFFETT, SMC RECORDINGS AND K-TEL INTERNATIONAL DRIVE GROWTH SAN FRANCISCO, July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- INgrooves, the leading digital distributor and label, announced a number of significant additions to its client roster. On the heels of the recent strategic...
Never Before Available Mobile Content from Rap/Hip-Hop Legend Takes Center Stage NEW YORK, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- ThumbplayR (http://www.thumbplay.com/), the #1 mobile entertainment content service in the U.S.*, and Universal Music Group UMG, the world's leading music company, today announced the exclusive launch of ringtones and other...
Universal Music Group has taken a 5,300 s/f lease at 581 Avenue of the Americas for a new management group it is creating. Broker Erik Nissani handled the deal for Universal, who gravitated to the space because it was already built out and came with relatively inexpensive rents...
PARIS -- Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.'s two-day gaming and eSports convention, the Blizzard Entertainment([R]) Worldwide Invitational, begins this Saturday, June 28, the company announced. The Blizzard Worldwide Invitational celebrates the communities surrounding the Warcraft([R]), Diablo([R]), and StarCraft([R]) game universes and showcases the skills of top eSports gamers from around the world....
PROVO -- When E.J. Caffaro was 17, years before he became the director of Brigham Young University's student-athlete academic center, he planned to finish a junior prom group date by staying overnight on a New Jersey beach. His mother disapproved and asked him to do her a...
Tina Bartholomew's big dream for the Day of Song is that it will eventually extend around the world. But the first annual Day of Song will start small, in Utah. Bartholomew's own contribution this evening will be to sing "Don't Rain on My Parade" for her family. ...
PROVO -- Voted one of the best independent bands in the West last summer by Billboard Magazine, piano rocker Chris Merritt and his band are slated to release a second album Saturday at Velour Live Music Gallery, 135 N. University Ave., at 8 p.m. Originally from Virginia,...
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-17 June 2008-Last.fm to make UMG catalogue available free online supported by advertising revenueC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Universal Music Group, a global music distributor, and Last.fm, a website providing free access to music tracks and videos, have announced a partnership which will make UMG's catalogue available on...
INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-C1995-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Universal Music Group, a global music distributor, and Last.fm, a website providing free access to music tracks and videos, have announced a partnership which will make UMG's catalogue available on Last.fm's website. Artists included in UMG's catalogue include Jay-Z, Nirvana,...
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Last.fm to Feature Thousands of Videos Free-On-Demand from UMG Chart-topping Artists Including Jay-Z, Nirvana and Amy Winehouse, Among Many Others NEW YORK, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Music Group, the world's leading music company, and Last.fm, the fast-growing free global music Web site, today announced a new...
Industrialist with an incisive and analytical mind, and a passion for technological innovation Richard Young was an industrialist whose interests and achievements extended far wider than the manufacturing in which his business career was largely based. He was managing director of the engineering group Tube Investments in...
The daughter of late U.S. jazz musician Joe Farrell is suing four rappers and their record companies for allegedly using her father's music without approval. Kathleen Firantello accuses Kanye West, Common, Method Man and Redman, along with various labels owned by Universal Music Group, of using portion's of...
My first meeting with Angus Calder [obituary by Professor Ian Campbell, 10 June] was, typically, at the bar of an Open University summer school where he was teaching, writes John Pilgrim. A group was noisily arguing about the Second World War. I told one of them loftily that he was...
Agreement Settles Dispute over XM Devices with Advanced Recording Features NEW YORK, June 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- XM Satellite Radio and EMI Music today announced that they have resolved the lawsuit brought by EMI against XM over its Pioneer Inno, a portable satellite radio with advanced recording features....
Destiny's Proprietary Platform Will Provide Secure Distribution of UMG Pre-Release Digital Media NEW YORK and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Music Group UMG, the world's leading music company, and Destiny Media Technologies (BULLETIN BOARD: DSNY) announced today that they have expanded their...
