New York - Sirius Satellite Radio announced on Tuesday that its shareholders today overwhelmingly voted to approve its previously announced $4.6 billion merger with rival XM Satellite Radio. [more..]

Mountain View, Calif. - Seven months after Google announced that it would pay $3.1 billion to acquire New York-based Internet ad firm DoubleClick, the company on Tuesday learned that it will have to wait a bit longer to close the deal. [more..]

Adelaide, Australia - News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch, whose company is acquiring Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, said on Tuesday that he intends to abandon the subscription model on the paper's website -- which recently hit a million subscribers -- in favor of a free, advertising-supported model, the Associated Press reported. [more..]

Washington - A bill introduced in the U.S. House on Friday would withhold federal financial aid from colleges and universities that don't test copyright-protection technologies on their campus networks. [more..]

New York - Internet advertising spending in the U.S. spiked 25% in the third quarter of 2007, to a record $5.2 billion -- also marking the third consecutive quarter in which a new record was achieved -- according to a report from the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers. [more..]

New York - Time Warner's AOL announced on Monday that it has acquired Yedda, an online question-and-answer social search service. Founded in 2006, Israel-based Yedda has developed technology that automatically matches questions to other related questions and topics, while selecting the best available users from relevant Internet communities to answer the questions posed. [more..]

Macau - The CEO of China Mobile, that country's largest mobile network, revealed on Tuesday that the company is in talks with Apple to distribute the iPhone in China, although no deal is in place and revenue-sharing issues are still being discussed, IDG News Service reported. [more..]

Redmond, Wash. - Microsoft announced on Monday that it intends to acquire Musiwave, the France-based unit of Openwave that provides mobile music entertainment services to wireless carriers. [more..]

New York - Several labels and publishing units of major record label EMI on Friday filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Michael Robertson, the original founder of MP3.com and current head of music sites MP3tunes.com and Sideload.com, Reuters reported. [more..]

San Francisco - Following a rash of cease-and-desist letters sent to fansites hosting photos of the recording artist, Prince is planning to file lawsuits against notorious BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay in Sweden, France and the U.S., CNET News.com reported. [more..]

Redmond, Wash. - Microsoft on Tuesday introduced its second-generation Zune digital media players, including the 80GB, hard drive-based Zune 80 ($249), and two flash-based, 8GB ($199) and 4GB ($149) models. [more..]

Washington - Former Vice President and presidential candidate Al Gore has announced he will join Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a major Silicon Valley venture capital firm focused on technology, as part of the firm's push to fund "green" businesses. [more..]

San Jose, Calif. - Adobe Systems, the maker of Web publishing software, has announced that Bruce Chizen, its CEO for the past seven years, will step down on Dec. 1. [more..]

Dulles, Va. - Eight out of ten children (ages 4-17) regularly play computer or video games, as do 38% of adults, but 43% of parents said they never play games with their kids, according to a new poll from AOL Games and the Associated Press. [more..]

New York - HD AmeriTV, a provider of Internet TV delivery services, has raised $45 million in a new round of venture capital financing, which was co-led by First Mutual Credit and GTrade Securities. [more..]

Framingham, Mass. - Vivox, a provider of integrated voice services for online games and virtual worlds, announced on Tuesday that it has raised $7.8 million in a second round of venture capital financing, led by Benchmark Capital. [more..]

Needham, Mass. - KoolConnect Technologies, a provider of digital in-room entertainment services to hotels, announced on Tuesday that it has raised $6.5 million of incremental capital. [more..]

San Francisco - Gydget, the developer of a marketing platform that helps organizations -- such as music groups and sports teams -- reach their audiences on social networking and fan-based websites, said on Tuesday that it has raised an undisclosed amount in its first round of funding, led by SunBridge Partners. [more..]

Washington - PopNetworks, a start-up that builds advertiser-supported TV networks placed at retail stores, malls and entertainment events, said on Tuesday that it has been acquired by California-based American Diversified Holdings Corp. (ADHC). [more..]

With the ticket mess surrounding Miley Cyrus’s 54-show “Best of Both Worlds” tour, it was only a matter of time for a lawsuit to surface. [more..]

Variety reports that “several” members of the Writers Guild of America who work for daytime soap operas plan to cross the picket line to keep their jobs. [more..]

Two websites that purport to clarify your choice for president in 2008 are making their way around the internet at viral speed. [more..]

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London - Online social network Bebo on Tuesday introduced Open Media, a new platform that lets media brands establish pages on the site to host their content, while allowing Bebo's 40 million members to create personal video profiles that list their favorite media content. [more..]

New York - Marvel Entertainment's Marvel Comics on Tuesday announced the launch of Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited, a $4.95 per month subscription service that offers access to thousands of titles from the publisher's comic book archives. [more..]

New York - Glam Media, a women-focused network of websites, announced that it has partnered with women-focused cable TV channel Lifetime Networks to create a co-branded, vertical network of websites and blogs within the Glam Media publisher network. [more..]

Burbank, Calif. - Time Warner's Warner Bros. Television Group on Tuesday announced the launch of MomLogic.com, a new site "created as the ultimate destination for moms, built by moms," for which Unilever signed on as the charter sponsor. [more..]

Menlo Park, Calif. - DanceJam has announced the launch of its dance-focused social network, formed by 80's/90's artist MC Hammer and the creators of the Flock social network browser. [more..]

New York - RealNetworks' Rhapsody digital music service has announced a promotional partnership with fast food restaurant chain Wendy's, that will give away up to 100 million songs through unique codes on combo meals. [more..]

New York - The Orchard, a digital distributor of independent music and video, announced that it has partnered with Sellaband, an online music platform where fans invest in unsigned artist, and get a share of profits from future advertising revenues and album sales. [more..]

San Francisco - Snocap, the digital music licensing and distribution service launched by Napster creator Shawn Fanning, on Tuesday announced the launch of a public beta test for a new, collaborative online mixtape service called BoomShuffle. [more..]

New York - Jango on Monday announced the public release of its online radio service, which lets users create and share personalized radio stations. [more..]

London - MyArtInfo on Tuesday launched its social networking site for artists, where users can post images of their works -- ranging from visual works to performing arts, film, poetry, sculpture, fashion and architectural design -- as well as create blogs and connect with one another online, Reuters reported. [more..]

Miami - Trugo, a new, Miami-based social networking site, on Tuesday announced a $100,000 college tuition contest which will award ten winners up to $30,000 in tuition funds. [more..]

San Diego - DivX, a developer of video compression technology, announced on Tuesday that Sony Computer Entertainment will integrate its technology into the PlayStation 3 video game console. [more..]

Los Angeles - The Championship Gaming Series announced on Tuesday that its inaugural World Final, which will feature a prize purse of $1 million, will be held Dec. 6-14 at Sony Studios in Los Angeles. [more..]

San Francisco - Mobile game publisher Hands-On Mobile said on Tuesday that it has partnered with game publisher Activision to release a mobile version of the popular "Guitar Hero" game in the coming weeks. [more..]