West Hollywood, Calif. - IAC's (NASD: IACI) Ticketmaster announced on Thursday that it has won a default judgment and permanent injunction against RMG Technologies, a company it said was offering software that allowed ticket brokers to improperly access its site.

New York - Interscope/Geffen recording artist Beck will preview his new album "Modern Guilt" via 10,000 Internet-connected digital jukeboxes on TouchTunes' nationwide network a week before its official release on July 8. Meanwhile, fans who pre-order the album from Apple's iTunes Store are being made eligible to participate in a special concert ticket presale for Beck's upcoming tour, in conjunction with Ticketmaster.

West Hollywood, Calif. - IAC's (NASD: IACI) Ticketmaster on Tuesday announced the launch of a new paperless ticketing service, wherein customers will no longer carry any paper tickets, and instead present their credit card and photo ID to gain entry at a venue. The new Paperless Ticket will first be utilized on Tom Waits' "Glitter and Doom" tour this summer, and the company says it plans to begin installing capabilities to offer the service at major venues in the U.S. over the next year and a half.

West Hollywood, Calif. - IAC's (NASD: IACI) Ticketmaster announced on Thursday that it has acquired the assets of SLO Limited, a provider of VIP ticketing services to major touring artists and special events.

On Wednesday, everyone that is heading out to the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in two weeks received the news of a surprise addition to the line-up – Prince. Coachella is always surrounded by rumors about the line-up and potential to almost impossible reunions, such as The Smiths, before the official announcements are made in January. Every year, fans debate and dispel rumors regarding which bands & artists will play the festival out in Indio, CA on blogs, message boards, and MySpace.

London - IAC's (NASD: IACI) Ticketmaster announced on Tuesday that it has acquired Get Me In, a London-based Web marketplace for secondary ticket sales in Europe.

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.

West Hollywood, Calif. - IAC's (NASD: IACI) Ticketmaster announced on Tuesday that it will acquire TicketsNow, an online marketplace for music, sports and other live entertainment event tickets.

Los Angeles - Live Nation (NYSE: LYV), a live concert producer and venue owner, announced on Thursday that it will abandon industry giant Ticketmaster and launch its own ticketing business for its venues and events, beginning in 2009.

West Hollywood, Calif. - IAC's (NASD: IACI) Ticketmaster on Tuesday announced a multi-year deal with the National Football League (NFL), that will create a league-endorsed online secondary ticket exchange where fans can buy or sell NFL tickets.

West Hollywood, Calif. - IAC's (NASD: IACI) Ticketmaster on Wednesday announced the launch of a U.S. online affiliate network, which will provide commissions to consumers and organizations that generate ticket sales via links from their websites. The company will offer a customizable widget called EventEngine, developed with Buy At, Inc., that can be integrated on websites and alert visitors about upcoming events, as well as provide search functionality.

West Hollywood, Calif. - IAC's (NASD: IACI) Ticketmaster announced on Wednesday that it has expanded its relationship with Apple's (NASD: AAPL) iTunes Store, and will begin integrating digital album sales alongside concert ticket sales on Ticketmaster.com.

New York - IAC (NASD: IACI) , the media conglomerate run by Barry Diller that owns Ticketmaster, Citysearch, Ask.com and many other properties, announced on Monday a plan to split IAC into five publicly-traded companies. "We've been a complex enterprise almost from the very beginning 12 years ago, with hundreds of transactions over those years. And while we've created a lot of value, I've always believed our complexity and many mouthfuls of sentences to explain who we are and what our strategy is have hampered clarity and understanding with all our constituencies, particularly investors," said IAC chairman and CEO Barry Diller.

I am a passionate hater of Ticketmaster.com.  Paying a surcharge to a site whose main purpose is to make it difficult for me to complete an online transaction seems wrong on every level. 

New York - Bon Jovi has partnered with Ticketmaster to offer American Express cardholders who purchase tickets to shows on its upcoming tour a copy of its forthcoming album downloadable from Apple's iTunes Store. Tickets bundled with the album will cost an extra $9.99, the cost of a full-priced album on iTunes. Ticketmaster has done similar promotions with other artists, including Bob Dylan and Maroon 5.  

New York, N.Y. - IAC/InterActive Corp., the New York-based conglomerate of Internet media and e-commerce businesses, is opening a venture capital investment arm in Silicon Valley, according to a report in the San Jose Mercury News.

West Hollywood, Calif. - IAC's Ticketmaster announced on Monday that it will provide purchasers of every concert ticket from Ticketmaster.com with access to a free, ten-song digital music sampler of emerging and established artists. In addition, the company will give purchasers of every concert ticket sold between May 28 and Sept. 3 one free song download of their choice from Apple's iTunes Store.