Cupertino, Calif. - Apple on Tuesday introduced its new tiered pricing structure at the iTunes Store, where new release and popular songs may now be priced at $1.29, while older, catalog tracks may be sold for 69 cents each -- although the majority of songs are expected to remain at the current 99 cents price point. [more..]

New York - News Corp.'s Fox News unit has fired ten-year veteran entertainment reporter Roger Friedman, after Friedman posted a review of the unfinished copy of 20th Century Fox's film "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" that was leaked onto the Internet. [more..]

Mountain View, Calif. - The Associated Press plans to aggressively pursue websites that feature its news content without the proper licenses, the organization's board announced on Monday. [more..]

Washington - Atlantic Media, the publisher of The Atlantic, National Journal and Government Executive, is planning to boost the Web traffic for its core TheAtlantic.com online news magazine by either buying or investing in other content sites, paidContent reported. [more..]

San Francisco - DoubleTwist, the developer of a platform for media-sharing across all devices, announced on Tuesday that it has raised $5 million in its second round of funding. [more..]

San Francisco - Socialcast, a developer of Web-based business social networking tools, said that it has secured $1.4 million in its first round of funding, which the company will use to relocate its headquarters from Irvine to San Francisco this summer. [more..]

Bloomington, Ind. - Author Solutions, a provider of self-publishing services for authors, announced that it has acquired the publishing assets of Canada-based Trafford Publishing, for an undisclosed sum. [more..]

Celebrity personalities were the biggest sub-category within Entertainment being searched, with Paris Hilton and Oprah Winfrey topping the list, blogs Heather Dougherty. [more..]

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Los Angeles - The leaked pre-release copy of Fox's "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" has now been downloaded by more than one million users of the BitTorrent file-sharing network, TorrentFreak reported. [more..]

Santa Monica, Calif. - Yahoo on Tuesday debuted its new Artist Pages, music Web pages that pull editorial content, as well as streaming audio and video, and links to purchase music, tickets and other merchandise, from third-party sites. [more..]

London - Major label EMI Music and Apple Corps, the Beatles' record label, announced on Tuesday that the Beatles' entire original catalog will be released in digitally remastered format on CD on Sept. 9. [more..]

San Francisco - Warner Music Group has expanded its campaign to rid user-generated videos of its copyrighted music beyond YouTube to Vimeo, where the wife of a ZDNet columnist saw her video slideshow of friends drinking removed under a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice. [more..]

San Francisco - A group of some 250 owners of Amazon's Kindle e-book reader are using the device's book-tagging system to protest any e-books priced above $10, Wired.com reported. [more..]