Washington - Senate Judiciary Committee members sounded skeptical on Tuesday at a hearing on potential antitrust issues raised by the proposed $2.5 billion merger of ticketing giant Ticketmaster and concert promoter Live Nation. [more..]

Cupertino, Calif. - Apple CEO Steve Jobs is still expected to return from a medical leave at the end of June, according to a company board member questioned on the matter at the company's annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday, the Associated Press reported. [more..]

San Francisco - Google has joined the European Commission's antitrust case against Microsoft, which is accused of discouraging competition through the bundling of its Internet Explorer browser with its Windows operating system, Reuters reported. [more..]

London - Major record label EMI and its Capitol Records subsidiary have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Seeqpod, the provider of a service that lets users search for streaming songs online and create customized streaming playlists, and Favtape, another similar service, VentureBeat reported. [more..]

Stockholm - Executives from the music and film industries, including John Kennedy, head of international record label trade group IFPI, took the stand on Wednesday in Stockholm on the eighth day of the copyright infringement trial against Swedish file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay. [more..]

Sunnyvale, Calif. - Yahoo announced on Wednesday that Marco Boerries, the head of its Connected Life mobile division, will step down from his position, All Things D reported. [more..]

Redmond, Wash. - Nintendo of America on Wednesday called out China, Brazil, Korea, Mexico, Paraguay and Spain as countries where piracy of its products is "rampant" in its annual comments to the U.S. Trade Representative, and asked the U.S. to take further steps to combat the problem. [more..]

West Palm Beach, Fla. - M3X Media, a developer of multimedia distribution, storage and playback software, announced on Wednesday that it has raised $10.5 million in new funding, from investors including the Agile Opportunity Fund. [more..]

New York - You can follow the discussion at Digital Music Forum East 2009 live on Twitter and we encourage you to join in and post your comments and questions there as well. Tag and search for messages with the hash code #dmfe. [more..]

Foster City, Calif. - Sony Computer Entertainment said on Wednesday that its PlayStation Network online game service now counts over 20 million registered users worldwide, and has generated more than $180 million in sales since its launch just over two years ago. [more..]

Phoenix - The Republic Project on Wednesday introduced its interactive platform that aims to more closely connect music artists to their fans, with an initial roster of artists that includes Tim Myers, Dexter Freebish, Steriogram and Still Time. [more..]

Sydney, Australia - Nokia said on Wednesday that it plans to launch its Comes With Music unlimited mobile download service in Australia on March 20. [more..]

San Francisco - Dolby Laboratories, the developer of audio and surround-sound technologies, said on Wednesday that Bill Jasper will retire as its president and CEO on March 27. [more..]

San Francisco - First on Mars, a developer of Web-based tools designed to help users find and share links to free network TV shows on the Internet, said on Wednesday that it has paid an undisclosed sum to acquire PrisonBreakCrazy.com, a site for fans of the TV show Prison Break. [more..]