Minneapolis - Consumer electronics and media retail store chain Best Buy announced on Wednesday that it has struck a deal with Apple to become the first third-party retailer to sell the iPhone 3G in its stores. [more..]

New York - Warner Music Group has purchased a majority stake in Get In, a Spain-based artist management and touring agency for an undisclosed sum. [more..]

London - Online videos made by fans singing along to songs by their favorite artists appear to be paying off for those artists, boosting their payments from the MCPS-PRS Alliance, the U.K. collecting society reports. [more..]

Arlington, Va. - The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) said that it has teamed with CBS-owned technology media firm CNET to launch new indexes measuring consumers' confidence about the economy and expectations about consumer electronics and technology. [more..]

Netanya, Israel - Mobile TV chipmaker Siano Mobile Silicon announced on Wednesday that it has secured $17.5 million in a third round of funding, led by DFJ Tamir Fishman Ventures.
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San Francisco - ScanCafe, a photo scanning and restoration service, said that it has raised $4 million in its second round of funding, led by Sigma Partners. [more..]

Denver - Useful Networks, a unit of Liberty Media that develops location-based services for mobile phones, announced on Wednesday its acquisition of Canada-based KnowledgeWhere, a developer of location-aware mobile games, advertising and developer-enablement programs. [more..]

San Francisco - T-Mobile Netherlands has blamed Apple for any problems that iPhone 3G customers are experiencing with reception on its 3G network in the country, according to a company blog post that was picked up at MacRumors and CNET. [more..]

Los Angeles - Radio giant Clear Channel's Premiere Radio Networks unit on Wednesday announced the launch of "The iTunes Download," a three-hour weekend music countdown to be hosted by Alex Luke, iTunes director of music programming at Apple. [more..]

San Francisco - Reality Entertainment, an independent record label whose artists include KC and the Sunshine Band, Marcy Playground and Krokus, has signed what it says is the first record deal given to a performer in the virtual world "Second Life," Wired.com reported. [more..]

New York - "Saturday Night Live" creator Lorne Michaels' production company Broadway Video Entertainment has launched its first broadband comedy series, Broadcasting & Cable reports. [more..]

New York - Time Warner's HBO has announced plans to put its entire "Entourage" series up for sale at Apple's iTunes Store, the Associated Press reports. [more..]

Santa Clara, Calif. - Vudu, a broadband set-top box-based video-on-demand service, announced on Wednesday the launch of a 99-cent summer movie download promotion. [more..]

Los Angeles - Spaceland Recordings, a venture that aims to sell live concert recordings and videos captured from Los Angeles' Spaceland, Echoplex and the Echo venues, has teamed with Web TV network ManiaTV for an online concert series. [more..]

Denver - Mobile entertainment publisher Zed has announced a deal with top-selling hip-hop artist T-Pain and his record label, Nappy Boy Digital, to exclusively distribute T-Pain ringtones to mobile carriers and through its own portals. [more..]

San Francisco - Alcoholic beverage maker Bacardi is launching an online music initiative that will offer exclusive songs, remixes and live tracks from a range of artists as free MP3 downloads, Wired.com reports. [more..]