Washington - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) could require the winner of a planned wireless spectrum auction to offer free wireless Internet service across a large portion of the country, the Associated Press reported. [more..]

Los Angeles - The FBI is reportedly investigating MediaDefender, an anti-piracy firm often hired by record labels and movie studios, after the company allegedly initiated a denial of service attack last weekend against Revision3, a legitimate online TV network. [more..]

New York - Media conglomerate News Corp. announced on Friday that it has completed the acquisition of a 30% stake in TV Riga, a Latvian Russian-language broadcaster, increasing its ownership to 100%. [more..]

San Francisco - Creative Commons, the less-restrictive copyright scheme developed by Lawrence Lessig, is looking to sell off its music remix community ccMixter, PaidContent reports. [more..]

Pompano Beach, Fla. - Onstream Media, a distributor of live and on-demand Internet video, announced on Friday that it has agreed to acquire Narrowstep, a provider of Internet TV and IPTV services.
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San Francisco - Grockit, a San Francisco-based start-up developing a massively multiplayer learning game, announced on Friday that it has raised $8 million in its second round of financing, led by Integral Capital Partners with participation from Benchmark Capital. [more..]

Hoboken, N.J. - Pinch Media, a provider of free tools for developers creating applications for Apple's iPhone, has raised an undisclosed sum of seed funding, PEHub.com reported. [more..]

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San Francisco - Wired.com on Friday posted an interview with "Defiant" and "EBK," two members of a hacker group called "Kryogenics" that took control of Comcast's homepage and Web-based e-mail service for over five hours on Thursday. [more..]

Hong Kong - Wireless carrier Hutchison Telecommunications has signed a deal to launch Apple's iPhone in Hong Kong and Macau, Reuters reported, citing Hong Kong's South China Morning Post. [more..]

New York - Time Warner Cable plans to offer a new wireless cable modem that will bring Internet video to televisions and "allow you to network everything in your hose," according to comments made this week by CEO Glenn Britt, Reuters reported. [more..]

New York - Viacom's male-focused Spike TV cable network this week announced plans to launch a number of new original Web series as part of the re-launch of its website on Friday. [more..]

New York - Publisher Simon & Schuster announced on Friday that it plans this year to make 5,000 additional titles available for the Kindle, Amazon's eBook reader device. [more..]

San Francisco - Music-focused social network imeem said on Friday that it has partnered with Capitol/EMI to let its users stream the entire two-disc, 30-song special edition of "Radiohead: The Best Of," as well as every music video from "Radiohead: The Best Of DVD" for free prior to their North American release on June 3. [more..]

New York - Universal Music Group said this week that it has tapped Qualcomm to launch a number of direct-to-consumer mobile content and services, which will be made available through its artist Web and WAP sites, CD packaging, and its GetMusic.com portal. [more..]

London - Major label EMI announced this week that it has licensed 25,000 tracks and music videos for download to consumers' portable devices from European airport kiosks operated by MEDIAnywhere. [more..]