New York - PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) plans to offer a $1 million prize to the prospective creator of a Doritos ad for the Super Bowl that beats all of the other ads in USA Today's Super Bowl ad rankings, The Wall Street Journal reports. PepsiCo ran a similar user-generated Doritos ad contest for the Super Bowl two years ago, which generated a reported $36 million in free publicity. The Journal noted that Anheuser-Busch has won the USA Today Super Bowl ad poll every year for the past ten years.

Little Rock, Ark. - Mobile network operator Alltel Wireless announced on Wednesday that it has added a mobile music service from nuTsie that will let subscribers listen to playlists from their iTunes libraries on their phones. Available for $4.99 per month or $19.99 annually, the nuTsie service also allows subscribers to listen to other nuTsie users' iTunes playlists.

Silver Spring, Md. - Discovery Communications (NASD: DISCK) said on Wednesday that it has launched nine new channels on Google's (NASD: GOOG) YouTube video service, featuring clips from its stable of networks that include Discovery Channel, TLC and Animal Planet. The company also plans to introduce a series of targeted international channels that will showcase localized and native-language content.

Bethesda, Md. - Invision.TV has announced the launch of its Web-based interactive program guide for Internet video. Invision's application indexes and organizes videos from a variety of sites, helping users to find content based on their personal interests. The company also has launched a Facebook application, available at a link below, as well as a new "2008 Election" channel.

Los Angeles - News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) MySpace announced that it will launch its long-awaited new music service at 9 P.M. Pacific time tonight, and has signed both holdout major label EMI and a number of independents to its joint venture with the record labels. Along with EMI, Sony BMG, Warner Music and Universal Music, MySpace Music will allow free streaming and the creation of unlimited playlists featuring songs from artists represented by independent digital music distributors The Orchard, ADA, Red, Fontana and Caroline.

Washington -The Bush administration's Justice Dept. has weighed in against proposed legislation that would expand the agency's powers so that it could prosecute civil copyright infringement cases, Wired.com reported. "Civil copyright enforcement has always been the responsibility and prerogative of private copyright holders, and U.S. law already provides them with effective legal tools to protect their rights," reads a letter sent by the DOJ to bill sponsors Sens. Patrick Leahy and Arlen Specter.

Los Angeles - News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) MySpace online social network on Wednesday announced a partnership with online payment processor PayPal (NASD: EBAY), and the launch of a new fundraising widget that users can post to their MySpace profiles to collect donations from friends and family for non-profit organizations.

New York - A coalition of technology and entertainment companies on Wednesday announced the creation of Arts+Labs, a new advocacy group that "aims to ensure that artists, creators and innovators can safely share their works through new online distribution channels with confidence that their right to earn fair compensation for their creativity is respected." Founding members include AT&T (NYSE: T), Viacom (NYSE: VIA), NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), Cisco (NASD: CSCO), Microsoft (NASD: MSFT) and the Songwriters Guild of America.

New York - Yahoo (NASD: YHOO) on Wednesday unveiled a new digital advertising platform, APT, which the company bills as a solution that will streamline the process of planning, buying and optimizing online display advertising.

New York - Vindigo, a veteran mobile content distributor that was acquired by Japan's For-Side in 2004, has shut down and laid off more than 30 staff, Silicon Alley Insider reported, citing sources familiar with the company.

London - Cell phone maker Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson on Wednesday introduced PlayNow, an unlimited mobile music service powered by Omnifone that is due to launch with Telenor in Sweden later this year.

Beijing - Hurray (NASD: HRAY), a wireless music and content distributor, as well as artist development and music production firm based in China, announced on Wednesday that it has made a $3 million equity investment in Taiwan's Seed Music Group, an artist development, music production and offline distribution company.

Camas, Wash. - Abacast, a provider of real-time streaming media delivery technology, announced that it has acquired Tukati, a provider of peer-assisted on-demand delivery services.

New York - Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX) Turner Broadcasting announced on Wednesday that it is unloading its GameTap subscription-based broadband games and entertainment service, which will merge with French games distributor Metaboli, with Turner becoming an equity investor in the combined entity.

Tulsa, Oklahoma - Video game developer 2015, Inc. has raised "several million dollars" in new funding and formed a new casual gaming division, Tornado Studios, GameDaily reports.

San Francisco - Social news site Digg announced on Wednesday that it has landed a $28.7 million third round of venture capital financing, led by Highland Capital Partners.