Los Angeles - Comcast, the nation's largest cable TV company and second-largest broadband provider, has been sued by a California man who alleges the company's recently-discovered throttling of peer-to-peer traffic violates federal computer fraud laws, truth in advertising laws and its own contracts with users, Wired reported. [more..]

Washington - Vuze, a distributor of professionally-produced, HD video content that uses BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing technology, announced on Thursday that it has asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to adopt regulations preventing arbitrary interference by broadband network operators with peer-to-peer traffic on their networks. [more..]

Tokyo - Yahoo China has appealed a ruling from a Chinese court that found Alibaba, the parent company of Yahoo China, guilty of copyright infringement for providing "deep links" to sites offering unauthorized songs, lyrics and ringtones, Billboard reported. [more..]

Los Angeles - Live Nation, a concert and events promoter and owner of live performance venues, announced on Thursday that it will acquire Signatures Network, a maker of music-related merchandise, for $79 million in cash, stock and repayment of debt. [more..]

Redwood City, Calif. - Openwave Systems announced on Thursday that it has agreed to sell its Musiwave mobile music service provider unit to Microsoft for $46 million in cash. [more..]

San Diego - DivX, a developer of video compression technology, announced that it has acquired MainConcept, a Germany-based provider of H.264 and other video technologies for the broadcast, film, consumer electronics and computer software markets, for $22 million in cash and stock. [more..]

San Diego - Slacker on Thursday announced the official launch of the premium version of its personalized Internet radio service, and release of its complementary Slacker Portable Player devices. [more..]

Sydney, Australia - Tilefile, an Australia-based online social network, announced on Thursday that it has received an equity investment from Motorola Ventures. [more..]

Los Angeles - GigaOmniMedia, the publisher of blogs including NewTeeVee and GigaOM, has raised about $1 million in its second round of venture capital financing, from True Ventures and several angel investors, Beet.tv reports. [more..]

Guy Kawasaki makes the case that second-time entrepreneurs are not necessarily the be-alls and end-alls. [more..]

Singapore - Singapore's Media Development Authority has banned Microsoft's "Mass Effect" video game in the country, over a scene that shows "a human woman and an alien woman kissing and caressing each other," Reuters reports, citing the local Straits Times newspaper. [more..]

Los Angeles - Joost, the Internet TV streaming service, announced on Thursday the release of the first "commercial widget" on the service, sponsored by Coca-Cola's European unit. [more..]

Dulles, Va. - As the company makes a further push into online advertising, AOL said on Thursday that it has relaunched its Games.com site to broaden its ad capabilities and demographic reach. [more..]

Santa Clara, Calif. - VUDU, the developer of a set-top box that features on-demand movies licensed from the major studios and many independents, announced on Thursday that it has signed deals with Universal, Paramount and Lionsgate to add HD movies to its service. [more..]

Seattle - Social music service iLike on Thursday announced a promotional partnership with Grammy-winning artist Keith Urban, that will see videos from Urban's current tour made available weekly to Urban's more than 300,000 fans on iLike. [more..]

London - Social music discovery service Last.fm, a unit of CBS, on Thursday released a music application for the 122,000 communities on Ning, a collection of niche social networks. [more..]

Charlottesville, Va. - Musictoday, a unit of Live Nation, on Thursday announced the launch of a Web store application for the Facebook social network, that lets artists with Facebook Pages sell merchandise directly to fans. [more..]

Seattle - RealNetworks on Thursday announced the release of its new RealPlayer, following a five-month public beta, and introduced a new feature for the premium version of the player that lets users transfer downloaded video content to the Apple iPod nano, iPod Classic and iPod Video. [more..]

Los Angeles - Vivendi Games and Sony Pictures have announced plans to produce a series of games based on the "Ghostbusters" movie franchise, which will feature the voices and likenesses of original stars from the movies including Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Annie Potts and William Atherton, Variety reports. [more..]

New York - Harmonix, the music-based game studio unit of Viacom's MTV Networks, on Thursday announced the lineup of weekly song downloads it will offer through the end of the year for its forthcoming "Rock Band" game. [more..]

Mesquite, Texas - Video game developer id Software ("Doom," "Quake") said on Thursday that it has partnered with fellow developer Fountainhead Entertainment to create a new mobile game development unit, id Mobile. [more..]