Los Angeles - The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) membership has given 78% approval for a proposed new contract with the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), ending a year-long stint where actors were working without a contract. [more..]

San Francisco - The U.S. Justice Department has intensified its antitrust investigation into Google's proposed settlement with authors and publishers over its digital book-scanning project, sending formal requests for information to Google and others involved in the dispute, The New York Times reported. [more..]

New York - In attempts to uphold the U.S. ban on Internet gambling, federal prosecutors have asked four U.S. banks to freeze at least $33 million in winnings owed to American online poker players, The New York Times reported. [more..]

Los Angeles - Two attorneys who have represented a number of alleged file-swappers in copyright infringement lawsuits brought by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) plan to file a class action suit against the RIAA this summer, to reclaim the "$100 million" the RIAA "stole" from the thousands of people they have sued, Ars Technica reports. [more..]

New York - With the transition from analog to digital TV broadcasting just days away, some 2.8 million American households, or 2.5% of the U.S. TV market, remain completely unprepared, according to the latest figures from Nielsen. [more..]

London - The three founders of London-based social music discovery service Last.fm, which was acquired two years ago by CBS for $280 million, announced on Wednesday in a blog post that they are stepping down from the company. [more..]

Los Angeles - Half of music purchases will be digital by the end of 2010, and the value of digital purchases are expected to exceed the value of physical music purchases sometime in 2011, according to a presentation from Nielsen at the National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM) conference, Billboard reported. [more..]

New York - The global economic downturn has forced many venture capitalists to alter their strategies, including reducing their short-term investment levels, according to a new survey by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and the National Venture Capital Association. [more..]

Washington - Gay and lesbian adults are more likely than heterosexuals to read blogs and use social networking tools, according to a new poll conducted by Harris Interactive in conjunction with Witeck-Combs Communications. [more..]

New York - Twitterfeed, a service that publishes RSS news feeds on the Twitter microblogging service, has sold a majority stake in the company to investing and development group Betaworks and TAG, Silicon Alley Insider reported. [more..]

Today we are posting on what Canadians are searching for online, blogs Heather Hopkins. [more..]

Sunnyvale, Calif. - On the heels of its successful release of the Pre smartphone, Palm on Wednesday announced that Jon Rubinstein will succeed Ed Colligan as CEO. [more..]

San Diego - Qualcomm announced on Wednesday that its FLO TV mobile TV service will become available nationwide this week, following the transition to all-digital TV broadcasting on Friday, which will free up broadband spectrum for its dedicated network. [more..]

New York - Gannett's USA Today plans to introduce a new digital replica version in August that users will pay slightly less than a print edition to read, the Associated Press reports. [more..]