New York - Swedish prosecutors are preparing to file charges later this month against the operators of The Pirate Bay, the notorious file-sharing hub that U.S. entertainment companies and the U.S. government has targeted for years, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. [more..]

Seattle - Confirming earlier reports, Amazon.com has announced the addition of DRM-free MP3 music downloads from major label Sony BMG to its Amazon MP3 store, making it the only retailer to offer MP3s from all four major labels. [more..]

Washington - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will approve a $19.5 billion deal that will see Clear Channel Communications, the nation's largest radio broadcaster, become a privately-held company, the Associated Press reported. [more..]

Cambridge, Mass. - Basis Technology, a provider of software for text analytics, information retrieval, and name resolution in several languages, on Friday announced that The Appeals Court of Massachusetts has ruled in its favor over online retailer Amazon.com in a long-standing dispute relating to the establishment of Amazon's Japan subsidiary and its Japanese e-commerce site. [more..]

Washington - The Library of Congress said that it has signed a deal with software giant Microsoft that will "electronically expose" its vast historical collections to the public through the use of technology. [more..]

Chatham, N.J. - Fictionwise, an independent eBook retailer, announced this week that it has acquired the eReader.com eBook retail business unit of mobile content distributor Motricity. [more..]

Collinsville, Conn. - Fanzter, an early-stage new media development company, announced this week that it has raised an undisclosed sum of first round financing, from investors including Richard Barton, Second Avenue Partners, Curious Office Partners and multiple angel investors. [more..]

Throughout the show, there were a few vendors that did do something noteworthy to stand out. This post is about how they did it and some marketing lessons you can learn from their efforts, blogs Rohit Bhargava. [more..]

Many entrepreneurs believe a bunch of myths about entrepreneurship, so here are ten of the most common and the realities that bust them. [more..]

New York - Publisher Conde Nast's online unit CondeNet said this week that it will turn its Flip.com community site for teens into a Web application for social networking platforms, starting with Facebook. [more..]

New York - Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing said on Friday that it has partnered with Ball State University, to distribute live, interactive Web broadcasts featuring authors and illustrators to more than 30,000 schools nationwide. [more..]

San Francisco - WeGame this week debuted its service that lets gamers capture video of their gameplay and publish it to the company's website for sharing. [more..]

Paris - Vivendi Games Mobile announced this week a deal with cell phone maker Nokia, to offer a range of its games on Nokia devices via the company's Nokia Download service. [more..]

Hyderabad, India - India-based game developer 7Seas Technologies has acquired the online game portal Neodelight from Germany-based Neokolor. [more..]