Los Angeles - A coalition of more than 80 musicians has been formed to seek compensation through a performance right when their music is broadcast on AM and FM radio. [more..]

Brussels - European authors and composers have been called upon to weigh in on a new European Union proposal that would make it easier to license songs and other works simultaneously across all 30 European Economic Area nations, Reuters reported. [more..]

Kirkland, Wash. - Clearwire, the operator of a wireless, high-speed Internet access service, announced on Thursday that it has signed agreements with the nation's two satellite TV broadcasters -- DirecTV and EchoStar Communications, which operates the DISH Network -- that will enable the satellite firms to offer high-speed Internet access to their subscribers. [more..]

London - Venture capital firm Benchmark Capital's new European unit, Balderton, has acquired U.K.-based video game developer and publisher Codemasters from its founding Darling family for an undisclosed sum. [more..]

New York - Time Warner's Home Box Office (HBO) cable network has announced plans to make all 26 of its HBO and Cinemax channels available in high-definition by the second quarter of 2008. [more..]

Singapore - Consumer electronics firm Creative Technology, which manufactures the Zen line of MP3 players, on Thursday announced plans to voluntarily delist its shares from the Nasdaq. [more..]

Dallas - DG FastChannel, a provider of digital media services to the advertising, entertainment and broadcast industries, announced on Thursday that it will acquire GTN, a provider of advertising media services, for $11.5 million in cash. [more..]

Hollywood, Calif. - Online art and photo-sharing community deviantART has raised $3.5 million in its first round of financing, PEHub.com reported, citing a regulatory filing. [more..]

San Mateo, Calif. - Tapatap, a mobile and Web social contest community, on Thursday announced the beta launch of its service, and initial funding of $2.5 million from Gabriel Venture Partners. [more..]

San Diego - Veoh Networks, a video-sharing site similar to YouTube, has raised around $26 million in its third round of venture capital financing, led by Goldman Sachs, PEHub.com reported. [more..]

The Venice Contemporary Art Gallery co-founders Nathan Spoor, L. Croskey and Bill Lucas are on a mission to make fine art cool. [more..]

The gossip blogs have truly taken over celebrity news in the past year, according to LeeAnn Prescott at Hitwise.
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Joakim Baage takes a look at a new web video network geared towards 18-34 year-old men and interviews Kourosh Taj, Co-President and Head of Programming. [more..]

Scott Karp on ad networks, i.e. centralized platforms for the buying and selling ads, where the company that controls the network controls the sale and the flow of revenue to the publisher. [more..]

Doug Lawrence, professional singer, music director, and speech coach, gives absolute necessities of an engaging performance or presentation. [more..]

New York - NBC News is developing an educational website for high school students that will feature both reports from the network's archives, and original reporting from NBC News personalities like Tim Russert and Brian Williams, The New York Times reported. [more..]

London - Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has passed one million unit sales for the PlayStation 3 in Europe, Australia and other regions that use the PAL TV standard, SCEE president and CEO David Reeves told The Register. [more..]

Tokyo - Apple has announced that Yahoo Japan will now make the iTunes Store its default digital music store. [more..]

Emeryville, Calif. - Gracenote, a provider of music identification and other digital media services, announced on Thursday the launch of its Mobile Music 2.0 platform, which will power mobile music search and discovery services on handsets from makers including Sony Ericsson. [more..]

Englewood Cliffs, N.J. - NBC Universal said on Thursday that it has partnered with mobile TV service provider MobiTV to offer live mobile TV coverage of the 2007 U.S. Open. [more..]

Culver City, Calif. - Sony Pictures Television International has announced plans to launch Animax, its Japanese anime channel, in a version for mobile phones in Canada and Australia. [more..]

Los Angeles - Movielink, a studio-backed online movie and TV show download service, announced on Thursday that it has partnered with distributor THINKfilm to offer "Glastonbury," a documentary about the U.K. music festival, for free download on Movielink for a two-week period. [more..]

Bedford, Mass. - Groove Mobile, a provider of mobile music download services, announced on Thursday that it has added music videos to the offering at the mobile music store it powers for wireless carrier 3 UK. [more..]

Danville, Calif. - Sproose, a consumer search engine where users can influence the ranking of the index by voting on the results, said on Thursday that its search listings now exceed "multiple billions of pages." [more..]

London - 24-7 MusicShop, a provider of branded online digital music stores, announced on Thursday that it will power a re-launched online music store for Libro, Austria's largest entertainment retailer with 226 stores nationwide. [more..]

Burbank, Calif. - Disney Interactive Studios on Thursday announced its lineup of six Disney Channel series-themed games it plans to release in the fall, which will include titles based on its "High School Musical," "Hannah Montana," "The Cheetah Girls," "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody" properties. [more..]