Singapore - Motorola (NYSE: MOT) announced on Monday that it will acquire Soundbuzz, a provider of online and mobile music services in Asia. Financial terms of the transaction, which is expected to close in the first quarter, were not disclosed.

Singapore - Digital music service provider Soundbuzz on Tuesday launched what it says is the first such service in Asia to offer high-fidelity, MPEG4 audio tracks for sale, Billboard reports. Soundbuzz teamed with Exploit Technologies -- a marketing unit of the Singapore government's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) -- on the service, which will sell standard-quality (256 Mbps) tracks for about $1.72 each, and MPEG4 tracks for about $2.06 each.

Tokyo - Soundbuzz, a Singapore-based digital music service, is in negotiations with major record label EMI to offer tracks free of digital rights management (DRM) for sale in Southeast Asia, Billboard reported. EMI recently broke ranks with the other major labels, announcing it would sell DRM-free tracks on iTunes and other services. The deal with Soundbuzz would reportedly include mobile downloads, a platform more popular than PC-based downloads in much of Asia. "Soundbuzz are not the only company to have approached us, and in Asia we expect this EMI initiative to generate significant activity," Paul Robinson, president and COO of EMI Music South East Asia, told Billboard.