New York - Warner Bros. Entertainment said this week that, along with its partners, it will invest over $1 billion in a joint venture with partners Aldar Properties and Abu Dhabi Media, which will develop films, video games, a theme park and other properties in Abu Dhabi. [more..]

Cupertino, Calif. - Confirming a warning issued by Apple in a press release earlier this week, many owners of iPhones who had installed software meant to unlock the device for use on networks other than AT&T found their phones no longer worked after installing an iPhone software update from Apple. [more..]

Mountain View, Calif. - Google has acquired certain assets and technology of Zingku, a developer of mobile social networking services targeted at teens and young adults, for an undisclosed sum. [more..]

Los Angeles - The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) this week filed lawsuits seeking to have two websites it claims are distributing pirated films shut down on claims of copyright infringement, according to The Hollywood Reporter. [more..]

New York - CBS on Friday introduced EyeLab, a new digital production studio that will create and distribute short clips from the network's lineup of TV shows, The Wall Street Journal reported. [more..]

San Francisco - Mashery, a San Francisco-based provider of services and software designed to help clients build "mashup" Web services, said on Thursday that it has raised an undisclosed amount of funding in a new round led by Formative Ventures. [more..]

Bruchsal, Germany - CDV Software Entertainment, a Germany-based video game publisher, said this week that is has received an equity investment from Brockhaus Private Equity, GameDaily reported. [more..]

Mark Cuban blogs about his experience with the show "Dancing with the Stars" and predicts the end is near. [more..]

LeBron James will host this weekend’s season premiere of Saturday Night Live. [more..]

We’ve spent the last week analyzing search data in order to make some predictions as to what we think will be this year’s hot gadgets, entertainment, toys and fashions, blogs Robin Goad of Hitwise UK.
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New York - Fox Business Network (FBN), the soon-to-launch financial TV network from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., on Friday announced that it will launch a "microsite" on October 1st at 12am, 15 days prior to network's debut. [more..]

San Mateo, Calif. - Jaman.com, an online movie download service that features high-definition, international and independent films, announced on Friday that it will offer new films in the fall through distribution deals with Dreamachine, Trust Film, Fortissimo and Fortune Star. [more..]

Milan - Fashion designer Giorgio Armani this week opened a virtual store to sell designer clothes for avatars within the virtual world "Second Life." [more..]

New York - Major League Baseball's MLB.com this week launched its post-season live and on-demand video subscription service for users residing outside of the U.S., Canada, South Korea and Japan. [more..]

New York - Ecast, a maker of Internet-connected digital jukeboxes for bars and restaurants, said this week that it will exclusively offer pre-release tracks from new albums from Faith Hill and LeAnn Rimes on its network of 10,000 jukeboxes. [more..]

Redwood City, Calif. - Electronic Arts said on Friday that its soundtrack for the game "Need for Speed ProStreet" will feature 35 songs from a range of artists including Bloc Party, Datarock, Peaches and MSTRKRFT, along with an original score by Junkie XL. [more..]