Philadelphia - Comcast, the nation's largest cable TV company and a provider of high-speed Internet to 13.2 million subscribers, on Tuesday announced that it will lead an industry-wide effort to create a "P2P Bill of Rights and Responsibilities," which would "clarify what choices and controls consumers should have when using P2P applications as well as what processes and practices ISPs should use to manage P2P applications running on their networks." [more..]

New York - The digital music market may be bigger than previously thought, as a new report from market research firm NPD Group found that only 10% of customers at Amazon.com's new MP3 store had also purchased songs from Apple's iTunes Store. [more..]

Bath, England - The Filter, a new media recommendation and discovery service, announced on Tuesday the launch of an invite-only private beta, and the raising of $8.5 million in funding, from backers including musician Peter Gabriel's Real World Group and Eden Ventures. [more..]

Reston, Va. - Platform-A, the online ad unit of AOL formed last fall through the combination of acquired firms such as Advertising.com, Quigo and Tacoda, ranked as the No. 1 ad network in March, according to a new report from market research firm comScore. [more..]

Dulles, Va. - AOL announced on Tuesday that it has acquired San Francisco-based Sphere Source, a developer of contextual search tools which offers related content to publishers. [more..]

Menlo Park, Calif. - Cuill, a stealth-mode start-up developing "a new approach to search," announced on Tuesday that it has raised a $25 million second round of equity financing, led by Madrone Capital. [more..]

Sunnyvale, Calif. - RGB Networks, a developer of digital video processing tools that help service providers deliver targeted video content, said on Monday that it has raised $20 million in a new round of funding, led by new investor Institutional Venture Partners. [more..]

Blockbuster, with its huge existing retail footprint, is going to remain anchored in the world of bricks and mortar regardless of how the movie business evolves, but won't survive for long as a single-format specialist. It needs a multi-format, brick-and-mortar play, blogs Paul Sweeting. [more..]

Eliminate all the free lottery tickets. Make CEOs buy stock, options, warrants, whatever, on the same terms as everyone else can, blogs Mark Cuban. [more..]

Seattle - Starbucks announced on Tuesday that it has partnered with Apple's iTunes Store to launch a Pick of the Week promotion, which will see 1.5 million free iTunes song and music video download cards distributed each week to customers in 7,000 U.S. Starbucks locations. [more..]

Los Angeles - Rock band Motley Crue said on Tuesday that it is the first group to release a new single, "Saints of Los Angeles," for sale through the video game "Rock Band." [more..]

London - Fring on Tuesday said it has launched what it says is the first application that allows owners of "opened" Apple iPhones to conduct VoIP voice and chat conversations over a WiFi connection. [more..]

London - U.K. supermarket chain Tesco on Tuesday announced plans to abandon its current Windows Media-based service and launch an MP3 store in May. [more..]

Los Angeles - News Corp.'s MySpace on Tuesday announced the launch of a new localized version of its service in Korea, and said that another site for India will launch later this week. [more..]

New York - Women-focused Lifetime Network on Tuesday announced plans to launch more than 15 original webisode series, as well as a number of online games and new blogs. [more..]

New York - Viacom's BET Networks on Tuesday announced a deal with Microsoft to offer a selection of full-length BET television shows for download to the Xbox 360 via the Xbox Live online service. [more..]

Foster City, Calif. - Sony Computer Entertainment America on Tuesday announced the launch of a redesigned PlayStation Store for its PlayStation 3, which is now a native application on the game console rather than a Web-based storefront. [more..]