San Francisco - Online ticket marketplace StubHub said on Thursday that it has expanded its relationship with cable sports network ESPN. A year after launching its service across ESPN.com, StubHub said that the partnership now will include television, radio, mobile and more robust online components, as well.

Ticketmaster has purchased secondary market ticket seller TicketsNow.com (WSJ cites price of $265 million) in an effort to capture (and share with partner venues, artists, etc.) more revenue from ticket reselling. This move will help Ticketmaster compete more directly with StubHub, which eBay purchased in January 2007. Each of the two combinations are compelling – the market leader for ticket sales moving more aggressively into ticket reselling (Ticketmaster also operates Ticketexchange, a smaller service in terms of market share, to resell tickets), going against the online market leader for reselling almost anything.

Boston - StubHub, an online marketplace for event tickets owned by eBay, has been ordered by a judge to turn over the names of 13,000 customers who bought or sold New England Patriots tickets to the team, which prohibits sales of its tickets for more than $2 over their face value, the Boston Globe reported.

London - Viagogo, a U.K.-based online ticket reseller, has raised $30 million in its third round of funding, from investors including Index Ventures, LVMH chairman Bernard Arault, German media mogul Herbert Kloiber, and international financier Jacob Rothschild.

San Francisco - StubHub, an online ticket marketplace and unit of eBay, announced on Thursday that it has signed an exclusive five-year deal to become the official secondary ticket marketplace for Major League Baseball.

London - Major record label Warner Music Group announced that it has signed a deal with online ticket reseller Viagogo, providing fans who purchase tickets resold through the service with free downloads, ringtones and videos, Reuters reported.

San Jose, Calif. - eBay, the Internet auction giant, is close to a deal to acquire San Francisco-based online ticket reseller StubHub, The Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition Wednesday.