New York - CBS's (NYSE: CBS) Last.fm social music discovery service announced on Monday an official media partnership with the Lollapalooza music festival, and will power Lolla Radio, the festival's official Web radio service that lets users listen to songs from artists performing at the festival.

New York - Last.fm, the social music discovery service owned by CBS, has signed a deal to power AOL Europe's online radio service, beginning in the U.K., France and Germany. The company signed a similar deal earlier this year to power AOL Radio in the U.S.

New York - CBS (NYSE: CBS) said on Monday that its March Madness On Demand video player drew 4.7 million total unique viewers, and streamed 4.9 million total hours of live video during the NCAA men's basketball tournament. The number of unique users was up 164% over last year's 1.8 million, but 2008 was the first year that CBS offered all 63 games of the tournament live online, and without local blackouts.

New York - CBS's (NYSE: CBS) social music discovery service Last.fm said on Monday that it will offer an exclusive preview of Portishead's new album, "Third," in its entirety for free on its site for a week before its official release on April 21.

New York - CBS-owned (NYSE: CBS) music discovery service Last.fm said on Wednesday that, since it launched free full-song streaming on its site in January, overall CD and download sales through its partnership with Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN) are up 119%. The free streaming feature has also fueled a 66% increase in album and tracks purchased at Amazon from existing Last.fm users. "In just over two months it's become clear that people will buy CDs and downloads if they get access to the kind of service we offer," said Last.fm co-founder Martin Stiksel, who added that minutes spent on site are also up 118% month-on-month.

New York - CBS Radio (NYSE: CBS) announced on Tuesday that it will provide streaming of all of its 140 radio stations on Last.fm, the social music service it purchased for $280 million last May.

New York - CBS (NYSE: CBS) has launched a test of high-definition streaming on its website, offering some clips in H.265/AVC format at 480p resolution through an HD player, TechCrunch reported. The company plans to offer 720p and 1080p as well. Hulu, the joint venture video service from News Corp. and NBC Universal, is also experimenting with HD streaming, and currently offers 360p, 480p and 720p -- although the latter is delivered through progressive download rather than streaming, due to bandwidth constraints.

New York - The 29 TV stations owned by CBS (NYSE: CBS) on Monday announced the launch of the CBS Local Ad Network, a partnership between the stations and local bloggers and social media websites. CBS-owned stations will now syndicate local news widgets to a variety of local online media outlets that include a companion banner ad, and share a portion of the ad revenue generated with the syndication partners. The network is being administered by SyndiGO, a division of Seevast Corp.

New York, N.Y. - TargetSpot, a New York-based advertising marketplace specifically designed for streaming audio, has raised $8.6 million in its second round of venture capital, led by Bain Capital Ventures.

New York - CBS Corp.'s (NYSE: CBS) CBS Radio announced on Friday an agreement with Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX) AOL, to power AOL Radio and drive advertising sales for the service's more than 200 streams, in addition to its own more than 150 radio station streams and custom channels.

New York - Marc Ecko Entertainment, the fashion designer's video game studio, on Wednesday announced a deal with CBS-owned (NYSE: CBS) Showtime Networks, to develop a game based on the cable network's "Dexter" series. The companies say they are currently in talks with a handful of development studios about the project. Ecko's other major game release was the graffiti-based title "Getting Up."

New York - CBS's (NYSE: CBS) music discovery service Last.fm on Thursday announced the launch of a new section that showcases third-party applications designed to work with the service. The company estimated that activity around third-party applications on other websites added 19 million users to its service in January, in addition to the 21 million active users engaging with the Last.fm site itself. "We'll be moving into mobile, games consoles and partnering with other great media platforms to guarantee that Last.fm continues to drive the best music discovery and listening on the Web," said co-founder Richard Jones.

San Francisco - Blinkx, the developer of a video search engine, on Thursday announced content partnerships with the BBC, CBS and The Weather Channel. With the agreements, the site will further expand its programming, which already includes 18 million hours of indexed video and audio content from more than 220 partners.

New York - Last.fm, the social music discovery service acquired by CBS (NYSE: CBS) last year for $280 million, announced on Friday that, since introducing free on-demand music streaming to its service last month, it has seen unique visitors grow 59% and page views jump 58%. The company's deal allows free streaming of songs from all four major labels and a number of independents. It now counts 21 million unique users each month, based on internal data. "We've created a new model that works for everyone -- listeners, artists and copyright holders -- and the user response proves that it is working," said Last.fm co-founder Martin Stiksel. "Free is the future, and this is signaled not only by the industry's growing acceptance of what we're doing, but more importantly, by the incredibly fast increase of users accessing music on Last.fm since we launched free-on-demand."

New York - CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) announced on Thursday that it will begin offering free streaming episodes of classic TV shows online, including "Star Trek," "The Twilight Zone" and "Melrose Place," via its CBS Audience Network. In addition to CBS.com, the ad-supported shows will be available across more than 300 sites, including AOL, Microsoft, Comcast and Joost.

New York - CBS has announced plans to discontinue its CSTV brand, which will become known as the CBS College Sports Network as of next month. CBS Sports will also begin developing proprietary programming for the cable network. CBS acquired CSTV in January 2006; in addition to its cable TV network, the company operates over 200 official collegiate athletics websites, and streams audio and video of more than 10,000 college sporting events annually.

Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. - CBS' (NYSE: CBS) CBSSports.com said on Monday that, for the first time, this year it will offer all 63 games of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship -- including the championship game -- via its broadband NCAA March Madness on Demand service. Previously, the video player had provided online access only to the first several rounds of the tournament. Last year, the streaming service attracted 1.38 million total unique users during the tournament.

Los Angeles - CBS Mobile (NYSE: CBS) has partnered with Qualcomm's MediaFLO USA to expand its mobile access to the reality series "Big Brother" to a real-time, 24/7 live feed of activity from inside the Big Brother house. The service will be available to Verizon Wireless subscribers who live in the 50 or so metropolitan areas currently covered by the FLO TV service.

Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. - CBS' (NYSE: CBS) CBSSports.com said on Thursday that it has teamed with online social network Facebook to offer an official NCAA March Madness Brackets application to Facebook users. Participants will be able to compare picks with friends, as well as access tournament video coverage through links to the network's NCAA March Madness on Demand live streaming service. CBS said that more than 2.6 million Facebook users joined at least one bracket group in a similar feature offered last year.