Washington - Shares of XM Satellite Radio rose 6% by midday Monday after FCC chairman Kevin Martin said that he will recommend the approval of the company's merger with New York-based Sirius Satellite Radio. [more..]

London - A representative for the Rolling Stones has denied a report in the U.K.'s Observer over the weekend that the band will end its 30-year relationship with major label EMI and sign a new deal with concert promotion giant Live Nation, Reuters reported. [more..]

New York - The Associated Press (AP) newsgathering agency will attempt to define how much attributed borrowing constitutes "fair use" of its news articles and broadcasts for bloggers and other websites, The New York Times reports. [more..]

Redwood City, Calif. - Online video advertising network YuMe on Monday announced a deal with Microsoft, to compliment the company's existing video ad services by handling network management and sales for unsold inventory on Microsoft's online properties. [more..]

New York - Sony plans to launch a new Web series, "Angel of Death," across a range of websites before later offering the complete series on DVD, The Wall Street Journal reported. [more..]

San Mateo, Calif. - Jivox, an online self-service video advertising platform, announced on Monday that it has raised $10.7 million in its first round of venture capital financing, led by Opus Capital. [more..]

In this interview Dave Balter explains word-of-mouth marketing. He recently published a book called The Word of Mouth Manual, Volume II. [more..]

Frankfurt - Wireless carrier T-Mobile plans to sell Apple's forthcoming iPhone 3G 8GB for as little as 1 euro ($1.54) in Germany to customers who sign up for a 69 euro ($106.77) monthly contract, Reuters reported. [more..]

Chicago - United Airlines announced on Monday that it has added iPod and iPhone connectivity to its in-flight entertainment system, which will enable passengers to view video content stored on the players on a 15.4-inch personal TV. [more..]

Los Angeles - MediaDefender, an anti-piracy firm often hired by record labels to seed file-sharing networks with "spoof" media files, is also earning money from the labels by distributing authorized copies of legitimate songs from their artists on file-sharing networks, to the tune of $560,000 in 2007, TorrentFreak reported. [more..]

Seattle - Amazon.com's CreateSpace on-demand DVD distribution service said on Monday that it has partnered with Time Warner's HBO Video to offer a selection of HBO and Cinemax documentaries on the service. [more..]

Los Angeles - Dutch media tycoon John de Mol's Talpa Media Group on Monday announced the launch of TalpaCreative.com, a site where TV fans can create and sell original non-scripted TV show ideas. [more..]

New York - MediaNet Digital, the business-to-business digital media distributor, on Monday announced a deal to power Tesco Digital, the online entertainment store operated by the retail chain that has stores in 12 countries. [more..]

New York - Web entertainment studio My Damn Channel said on Monday that it has secured a branded entertainment deal with liquor brand Southern Comfort. The companies are creating "My Damn Channel Music Nights," a 12-week stint in music bars and clubs in New York and Los Angeles and on the SoCo Music Experience festival tour this summer. [more..]

Chicago - Destination Media, operator of the Gas Station TV out-of-home digital ad network, said on Monday that it has signed a long-term deal with LG Electronics, which will become the exclusive screen provider for a number of the company's out-of-home marketing networks. [more..]

Los Angeles - The Championship Gaming Series (CGS), a professional video game league, said on Monday that it has signed a deal with Comcast's G4 cable TV network that will bring broadcasts of its competitions to U.S. cable television. [more..]

Los Angeles - Japanese video game publisher D3Publisher said on Monday that it has signed deals to publish games based on Universal/Focus Features' forthcoming stop-motion animated HD feature "Coraline," as well as Aardman Animation's TV series "Shaun the Sheep." [more..]