Los Angeles - The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) has rejected the "last, best and final" contract offer presented by Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) after a new round of negotiations. [more..]

Dunstable, England - Consumers across the U.S., Western Europe and Japan are expected to purchase over 100 million Blu-ray Disc titles in 2009, according to a report from market research firm Futuresource Consulting. [more..]

New York - Americans now watch more than 151 hours of TV a month -- an all-time high -- while those who watch video online consume another 3 hours of video per month, and those who use mobile video watch nearly 4 additional hours per month on mobile phones and other devices, according to a report from Nielsen. [more..]

Redmond, Wash. - A month after laying off 1,400 employees, software giant Microsoft now says that it paid at least some of those workers too much severance, and is requesting that money back. [more..]

Beltsville, Md. - Hurt by sharply lower sales in recent months, Ritz Camera Centers, a retailer of cameras and other consumer electronics, on Monday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Reuters reported.
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Los Angeles - Blog network Gawker Media announced yesterday that it will fold its four-year-old Hollywood gossip site Defamer into its flagship Gawker.com property, after failing to attract an acceptable deal when it put Defamer up for sale several months back.
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Los Angeles - Anti-piracy forces of the music and movie industries have worked with Internet service providers in Latin America to take 35 blogs offline that were allegedly involved in music and film piracy, Billboard reported. [more..]

San Francisco - CNET News.com on Monday published an account of the ongoing negotiations between webcasters and the music industry on royalty rates for streaming music on the Internet. [more..]

Los Angeles - Netscape founder and Web entrepreneur Marc Andreessen has partnered with Opsware executive Ben Horowitz to create a new venture capital fund that will provide average investments in the neighborhood of $500,000. [more..]

New York - Apple's iTunes Store in Norway has accidentally released "American Idol" winner Kelly Clarkson's new album "All I Ever Wanted" several weeks before its official street date, Rolling Stone reports. [more..]

San Francisco - Kyte, a Web and mobile content distribution platform, on Monday released an iPhone Apps Framework, which allows developers to create applications for musical artists that can send news and tour updates, mobile videos, and enable chat with other fans. [more..]

New York - Beyonce has launched a dance video contest that asks fans to create their own versions of her popular music video for "Single Ladies," with the winner to receive $2,500 and have their video shown during the singer's 2009 world tour performances. [more..]

Washington - Wyndstorm, a developer of social network technology, said on Monday that it has launched a new live music website, developed in conjunction with Net Music Communities. [more..]