Lots of conference coverage this week… check out our Goldman Sachs Communacopia stories on paidContent and mocoNews, Tricia Duryee’s coverage from GigaOm’s Mobilize in San Francisco, and David Kaplan’s posts on OMMA Platform Wars.

We also opened registration for our second annual Future of Business Media conference, EconSports and EconWomen. All three events will take place on Oct. 28-29 at the Edison Ballroom in NYC.

Top headlines of the week from our sister sites mocoNews, paidContent:UK, and contentSutra:

mocoNews:
—Verizon Wireless Quietly Launches Flash-Based Storefront
—Best Buy Mobile Sees Dramatic Growth But Investments Bring Down Profits
—Interview: Jean-David Begin, BlackBerry Partner Fund: Cautiously Moving Toward 20 Investments
—T-Mobile Launching More 3G Markets In Time For Android Launch; 27 Markets By End Of 2008
—Samsung Officially Makes $26 Per Share Offer To Sandisk; ‘Deeply Disappointed’ Not To Have Agreement

paidContent:UK:
—Tiscali Weighs In: Kangaroo ‘Will Threaten Every Other UK Operator’
—DMGT Merging National And Regional At Top, Beatty New CEO
—Yahoo, Google Deny EU Ad Deal Impact, But EC Looks For Itself
—BT Has ‘Serious Concerns’ On Kangaroo; JV ‘Would Reduce Competition’
—Updated: Telegraph, NYT (FRB: 066570) Adding BreakingViews.com’s Financial Meltdown Commentary

contentSutra:
—Yahoo Starts Limited Beta Of New Front Page
—Yahoo Launches New Social Network SpotM, Only in India
—Hemant Sachdev Leaves Bharti To Head Up Microsoft’s Consumer Biz
—ContentSutra News Links Roundup

Grab your tickets for EconMusic on Sept. 23 in London. Also, save the date for our trifecta of conferences, FOBM, EconWomen and EconSports in October.