San Francisco - A federal court has dismissed a copyright infringement claim against video-hosting site Veoh, saying that the company had done what was required under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to respect copyrights, Reuters reported. [more..]

New York - Publisher Bloomberg yesterday inadvertently ran an obituary for Apple CEO Steve Jobs, and later retracted the mistake, but not before it was picked up and republished by gossip site Gawker. [more..]

Mountain View, Calif. - Google broke out some statistics on its new Video ID content identification and management system yesterday, revealing that copyright holders whose content is found using the service are choosing to place ads against 90% of the videos, rather than having them blocked. [more..]

London - BBC Worldwide is working on an ad-supported music service that would offer free streaming or paid downloads of songs and videos from the BBC archives, including live performances from its "Top of the Pops" and "Live Lounge" on Radio 1, New Media Age reported. [more..]

Los Angeles - China Mobile, which counts over 421 million subscribers in China, said that it has surpassed 80 million subscribers to its new M.Music Wireless Music Club, up from 48 million reported in September 2007, Digital Music News reported. [more..]

Reston, Va. - Popular social network MySpace has surpassed Yahoo to become the top publisher of online display advertising in the U.S., according to new data released by comScore. [more..]

Los Angeles - Anthony Zuiker, the creator of CBS's successful "CSI" franchise, has signed a "seven-figure" deal with Penguin Group's Dutton imprint to write a trilogy of "digital novels" that will encompass Web-based videos and social networking, Variety reports. [more..]

Los Angeles - SpeedDate, an online, webcam-based dating service, has raised $6 million in its second round of funding, led by Menlo Ventures, TechCrunch reported. [more..]

San Francisco - Webcarzz, a San Francisco-based developer and publisher of multiplayer online games, said on Thursday that it has landed $4 million in its first round of funding, led by Meakem Becker Venture Capital. [more..]

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The recent promotion that the department store Kohls has run with Stardoll offers an interesting example of how retailers can tap into the kids' virtual worlds audience, blogs Hitwise's Heather Hopkins. [more..]

Santa Barbara, Calif. - Radiohead have announced they will offer a live webcast of the last show on their North American tour tonight from Santa Barbara, California, Pitchfork reports. [more..]

Los Angeles - The largest BitTorrent tracker in Latvia has been shut down and two administrators were arrested in a raid staged by Latvian authorities with the aid of a local anti-piracy group affiliated with the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), TorrentFreak reported. [more..]

Moscow - Russia's second-largest mobile network operator, Vimplecom, has signed an agreement with Apple to distribute the iPhone 3G in Russia, Reuters reports. [more..]

San Diego - Sony on Thursday introduced three new Walkman digital music and video players (series S, E and B). [more..]

Fremont, Calif. - Logitech on Thursday unveiled a new Squeezebox networked digital music player, the $299 Squeezebox Boom, which allows users to access their digital music collections from any room in the house via the plug-in boombox. [more..]