FT.com / Companies / Media & internet – YouTube seals UK music royalty deal
YouTube has secured an agreement with the UK societies that collect royalties for 50,000 composers, songwriters and publishers to legitimise the use of recorded music on Google’s popular video-sharing website.
(tags: YouTube)
FT.com / Europe / Brussels – EU drops a broadband bombshell
Viviane Reding, [...]
BBC NEWS | Technology | Russian music site to ‘relaunch’
The contentious Russian music download site allofmp3.com looks set to resume business after a Moscow court ruled it was legal under the country’s law.
(tags: DigitalMusic)
BBC NEWS | Technology | Million more UK homes go online
The number of UK homes with internet access has gone up by [...]
BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Yahoo in China human rights case
A human rights group in the US is suing Yahoo for alleged complicity in rights abuses and acts of torture in China. The World Organization for Human Rights says Yahoo’s sharing of information with the Chinese government has led to the arrests of [...]
Silver surfers beat the young as Web wizards | the Daily Mail
Pensioners surfing the internet are spending more time online than their younger counterparts.
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Nokia to make factory in India global export hub | | Guardian Unlimited Business
Nokia yesterday said it plans to make its manufacturing plant in India, the second-largest market for its handsets, [...]
Facebook Gets Personal With Ad Targeting Plan – WSJ.com
Social-networking Web site Facebook Inc. is quietly working on a new advertising system that would let marketers target users with ads based on the massive amounts of information people reveal on the site about themselves.
(tags: Facebook)
Nokia Handsets to Come With Microsoft Services – WSJ.com
Mobile-phone giant Nokia Corp. [...]
BBC NEWS | Business | Big names sign up to iTunes rival
Some of the world’s biggest record labels including Universal and SonyBMG have begun selling music through a new download service, challenging Apple. Customers can buy tunes through Gbox at the same price charged by market leader iTunes – 99 cents (50 pen
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So here’s a surprise people amend their Wikipedia pages in a way that casts favourable light on their own reputation! Am I the only coffee-drinker to stifle a yawn at all the pages of print that this revelation made this week? Man bites dog and all that journalistic wisdom. I would have been much more [...]
Meebo’s Custom Chat Rooms for New Advertising Options
Meebo has officially launched “Sponsors,” which is a custom Meebo room that a company can use in order to reach out to Meebo users, and Meebo can earn some additional revenue.
(tags: SocialNetworking)
WatchMojo Releaunches as a Video-Sharing Network
Mojo Supreme, a digital media service and technology company, is re-launching its [...]
BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Russia throws out net piracy case
A former owner of Russia’s music website Allofmp3.com who sold cut-price downloads of Western music has been acquitted of copyright offences.
(tags: DigitalMusic)
FT.com / Companies / Media & internet – UK government agency to monitor blogs
The COI, the UK government’s communications agency, is working [...]
If there is one thing possibly more sacrosanct than cold coffee it is a Bloody Mary. So you can imagine a certain degree of angst when I discovered recently the 2.0 bottom-up-bug had started to mess with this important institution. To be clear I found a place that prided itself on a do-it-yourself Bloody Mary [...]
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