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Ticketmaster To Pay $10 To Fans It Redirected To Scalper Site

By Jeff John Roberts Oct. 19, 2011, 6:59pm Comments Off

Fans who purchased resold tickets to Bruce Springsteen, Miley Cyrus and other shows are set to receive a payout under the terms of a new set… Read More »

Liberty Media Wants To Boost Stake In New Live Nation

By Joseph Tartakoff Jan. 27, 2010, 12:00am Comments Off

A day after the Ticketmaster-Live Nation (NYSE: LYV) merger got the green light from regulators, major shareholder Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINT… Read More »

U.S., Canadian Regulators Clear The Way For Live Nation, Ticketmaster Merger

By David Kaplan Jan. 26, 2010, 2:24am Comments Off

It’s taken nearly a year, but the U.S. Department of Justice has given the merger between Ticketmaster and Live Nation (NYSE: LYV). The new… Read More »

Report: DOJ Will Ask Live Nation, Ticketmaster For Major Concessions

By Staci D. Kramer Oct. 16, 2009, 7:46am Comments Off

The UK Competition Commission has already ruled provisionally that the proposed merger of Live Nation (NYSE: LYV) and Ticketmaster would hur… Read More »

MySpace in Advanced Talks To Buy Music Recommender iLike

By David Kaplan Aug. 17, 2009, 10:14pm Comments Off

MySpace is in advanced talks to buy music service iLike for about $20 million, according to Techcrunch, which cites unidentified sources. We… Read More »

Schumer Grills Azoff At Hearings On Live Nation Merger

By Rory Maher Feb. 25, 2009, 4:45am Comments Off

Well, it doesn’t look like Chuck Schumer is going to be taking any long vacations with Irving Azoff this year. In his opening remarks duri… Read More »

Get Ready To Pay: What The Live Nation-Ticketmaster Merger Will Mean For Ticket Prices

By Rory Maher Feb. 12, 2009, 2:38am 3 Comments

Now that the Live Nation-Ticketmaster combination has been announced, the question is how will the new company make enough additional money… Read More »

UPDATE: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Announce $2.5 Billion Merger Into Live Nation Entertainment

By Tameka Kee Feb. 10, 2009, 9:28pm 5 Comments

There were reports that the two ticket vendors had merger plans, but now it’s official: Ticketmaster and Live Nation (NYSE: LYV) have announ… Read More »

BlackBerry’s March Towards Consumers: Tivo, Ticketmaster, MySpace, Sling

By Rafat Ali Sep. 11, 2008, 8:59pm Comments Off

BlackBerry (and its parent company Research In Motion) continues its attempts to appeal beyond the business user, and at CTIA, has announced… Read More »

TicketMaster To Carry $750 Million In Debt; HSN and Interval To Have Net Debt As Well

By Joseph Weisenthal Jun. 24, 2008, 8:28am Comments Off

Back in May, when IAC released the first details of its five-way split, it said it would saddle the spincos with debt and that the proceeds… Read More »

Cablevision & Ticketmaster In Deal To Acquire Majority In AEG Live; Includes Fuse TV: Report

By Rafat Ali Feb. 29, 2008, 7:26am Comments Off

This was speculated by an NYP story earlier this week and now Billboard fleshes it out, though in a slightly different direction: troubled C… Read More »

TicketMaster Acquiring UK Ticket Reseller Get Me In

By Joseph Weisenthal Jan. 29, 2008, 9:39am Comments Off

IAC-owned TicketMaster is acquiring UK-based ticket reseller Get Me In, according to WSJ. The acquisition is the company’s second such purch… Read More »

Ticketmaster Buys TicketsNow For $265 Million

IAC to Split into Five Publicly Traded Companies