Denver - Fan-captured videos from Monday's Led Zeppelin reunion concert at London's O2 Arena are being removed from YouTube and other video-sharing sites at the request of the band's management, Billboard reports. [more..]

Woodland Hills, Calif. - United Online, a provider of consumer Internet and media services, announced on Wednesday that it intends to withdraw its registration for an initial public offering of shares for its Classmates Media unit, whose Classmates.com social network counts over 50 million members. [more..]

Boca Raton, Fla. - Penthouse Media Group, the publisher of Penthouse Magazine, announced on Wednesday that it has acquired Various, Inc., and its stable of social networking and dating sites that include AdultFriendFinder.com, for $500 million in cash and securities. [more..]

Washington - Beginning Jan. 1, the 13-21 million households that use an antenna to receive analog TV signals can ask the government for two $40 coupons they can use toward the purchase of converters that will be needed for them to view digital TV signals once analog broadcasts are discontinued in 2009, the Associated Press reported. [more..]

Brussels - The European Commission said on Wednesday that France may offer a tax break to video game developers in the country creating titles with cultural content, the Associated Press reports. [more..]

Los Angeles - The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS, or "Television Academy") announced on Tuesday that it has prevailed in an arbitration with the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), which will now no longer be able to hold a Broadband Emmys event with partner MySpace. [more..]

Seattle - Online retailer Amazon.com announced on Wednesday that it has made an equity investment in online payment technology provider Bill Me Later, which lets consumers shop online without entering credit card information. [more..]

New York - Viacom's MTV Networks announced on Wednesday the creation of Digital Fusion, a new division that will develop digital advertising and marketing that incorporates original and customized creative content across the company's digital portfolio. [more..]

San Francisco - Decentral.tv, which operates the Kyte.tv service that lets users create mobile streaming TV channels, has raised $5.6 million in new financing from Spanish telcom Telefonica, NewTeeVee reports, citing sources close to the company. [more..]

The FCC has released its agenda for its December 18 meeting - and it promises to be one of the most important,and potentially most contentious, in recent memory, blogs David Oxenford. [more..]

Google may yet succeed in monetizing YouTube in a way that justifies the $1.65 billion price tag — but it will likely have nothing to do with “user generated content” (in the mythical sense), blogs Scott Karp. [more..]

Sucking up to A-list bloggers may not be all that it’s cracked up to be. It seems like it’s a bad day for celebrity endorsements. [more..]

We came across this interesting claim from John Lewis that it expects to sell more electrical goods to women than men for the first time this Christmas. So we decided to test their prediction, blogs Robin Goad of Hitwise UK. [more..]

Rumor spread last week about a Led-at-Bonnaroo-2008 performance, and now word has it they’re thinking NYC’s Madison Square Garden as well. The nostalgia rolls on. [more..]

New York - Viacom's MTV Networks announced on Wednesday that it will distribute clips from its various cable TV networks for free through AOL Video. [more..]

Los Angeles - AT&T has recently scored exclusive ringtone deals with former ringtone holdouts the Dave Matthews Band and Van Halen, Billboard reports. [more..]

Washington - XM Satellite Radio, a provider of satellite radio services with more than 8.5 million subscribers, said that it has made select music, news and sports programming available as free podcasts for download through XMRadio.com and Apple's iTunes Store. [more..]

Cupertino, Calif. - Apple announced on Wednesday that it has added programming from popular Canadian TV networks, U.S. broadcasters and the National Hockey League for sale from the iTunes Store in Canada. [more..]

Palo Alto, Calif. - Video-sharing site Metacafe said on Wednesday that its Producer Rewards program, which offers video creators a cut of ad revenue from their clips, has now doled out more than $1 million collectively to over 550 users. [more..]

New York - Sirius Satellite Radio announced on Wednesday that it has signed a multi-year extension to its agreement with ESPN, that will bring "SportsCenter," "College GameDay" and other ESPN shows to national radio for the first time. [more..]

Los Angeles - Social event planning service Evite on Wednesday announced the launch of QuickVite, a cross-platform mobile and Web application that lets users organize events and send invitations to friends via both e-mail and text message. [more..]

Pasadena, Calif. - Rich media technology firm Interpolls said on Wednesday that it has created a widget ad campaign for SYNC, the voice-activated system available on Ford vehicles, which will feature free song downloads alongside product videos and information. [more..]

New York - FLW Outdoors on Wednesday announced the largest cash purse for an online fantasy sports competition, with a $1 million payout to the winner of FantasyFishing.com, The Wall Street Journal reported. [more..]

Atlanta - Time Warner's Cartoon Network and Smashing Ideas on Wednesday announced a strategic partnership for the development and distribution of multiple Cartoon Network mobile games, animated screensavers and wallpapers. [more..]