Mobile Content Bits: Vivendi Games?; Data Price Cuts; Reuters MoJo Mk2; iPhone Speed Cap
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Allman Brothers Sue Universal Music For $13M in Unpaid Digital Royalties
By Rafat Ali
Members of The Allman Brothers Band have sued Universal Music-owned UMG Recordings for about $13 million, over royalties from compact discs… Read more »
Industry Moves: Lask From HMV To UMG, Sky News Changes
– Universal: After relaunching HMV.com and setting up its still-in-beta social net GetCloser, HMV (LSE: HMV) e-commerce director Gideon Las… Read more »
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Round-Up: Johnston Ads, UMG Long Tail, Street View OK’d
– Johnston: Scotsman publisher Johnston Press is the latest to start selling overseas ads on its UK news sites. Mail Online, Guardian.co.uk… Read more »
Earnings: Vivendi’s H1 Revs up; Universal Music’s Digital Revs Up 33 Percent
By Rafat Ali
Vivendi (EPA: VIV), the France-based media giant and parent of Universal Music Group, has reported its first half 2008 and Q208 earnings, an… Read more »
BSkyB, Universal Form JV To Launch Subscription Music Service
Pretty soon, everybody will be offering a subscription music service. Latest is BSkyB; it’s secured Universal’s Total Music repertoire (whic… Read more »
Thumbplay Partners With Warner Music To Mark Its Fourth Music Label Deal
By Tricia Duryee
Thumbplay confirmed today it has signed a deal with Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) to add content from artists such as Kid Rock and Missy El… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Thumplay-Jay-Z; Sony Ericsson-GlobalFun; IHT.com Launches iPhone Version
By Dianne See Morrison
– Thumbplay offering UMG mobile content: Thumbplay has agreed to a deal with Universal Music Group (UMG) which will see the mobile content… Read more »
Music Bits: SonyBMG/UMG MP3, Virgin Stalling, Fatboy Slim
– SonyBMG/UMG MP3: Digital music retailer 7digital will be taking DRM-free MP3 repertoire from SonyBMG and Universal “imminently”, we can r… Read more »
Nokia’s Comes With Music Deal: EMI May Come On Board Before Service Goes Live
By Matt Kapko
As Nokia Corp (NYSE: NOK). inches toward launching its Read more »
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Tero Ojanpera: Nokia’s Accidental Media Mogul
By Dianne See Morrison
In the last few years, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has been steadily repositioning itself from hardware manufacturer to Read more »
@ London Calling: Bundled Music Services “Commoditizing” Music?
By Dianne See Morrison
At the London Calling music conference on Thursday, there was little doubt among the panel assembled to discuss the value of music on mobile… Read more »
Last.fm Finally Gets Major-Label Buy-In For Music Vids, UMG Signs On
Thirteen months after it announced its intention to create an MTV-beating service to offer the “long tail” of music videos, Last.fm has stru… Read more »
Bebo’s Latest Series – Universal Music Fly-On-Wall Drama
Bebo will team with Universal Music for its fourth interactive video drama series, The Secret Life of Sam King. The fictional story of a jun… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Skweezer Ads; UMG; Cirque de Soleil: Smartphone Satisfaction
By James Quintana Pearce
– Skweezer has launched a new ad service. Skweezer Ads is an online advertising service that puts both desktop and mobile ads in a single a… Read more »
Discovery Invests in Sassa’s Web Publishing Firm Uber.com; UMG Other Investor
By Rafat Ali
Last we knew, Scott Sassa, the former CEO of Friendster, had left his EIR position at Kleiner Perkins and taken over as the CEO of an obscur… Read more »
Apple Needs More Mobile Music; UMG Demanding Nokia-style Comes With Music Deal?
By Dianne See Morrison
Have the music labels found a way to get Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to cave on some of their age-old requests as well as an interesting new one? The… Read more »
Nokia’s Schimel On Comes With Music: ‘Looking Out For Everyone’s Interests…Including Our Own’
By Dianne See Morrison
With all the talk that they Read more »
Music Community Site Mog Gets $2.8 Strategic Investment From UMG, Sony BMG, And Angels
By Joseph Weisenthal
Mog, the Berkeley, CA-based music community site, has taken a $2.8 million strategic investment from Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, as wel… Read more »
Nokia’s “Comes With Music,” Comes With A High Price
By Tricia Duryee
As Nokia (NYSE: NOK) prepares to launch one of the more innovative ways to sell music on a mobile phone — by including free and unlimited d… Read more »
BT Vision Adds Universal Pictures VoD Service PictureBox
BT’s (NYSE: BT) living room IPTV platform is adding PictureBox, Universal Pictures’ premium on-demand movie subscription service, to its box… Read more »
Nokia Paying Universal Music $35 Per User For Comes With Music?
By James Quintana Pearce
More unconfirmed rumors as to how much Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is paying Universal Music Group for its music to be a part of Nokia’s “Comes With M… Read more »
Island Def Jam Launches WAP Site
By James Quintana Pearce
The Island Def Jam music group has continued its advance into mobile content and launched a mobile portal at idjmobile.com, available to any… Read more »
Vivendi Games/Activision Merger Nodded Through By EC
The European Commission has cleared the $18.9 billion merger of Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) and Vivendi’s (EPA: VIV) games unit on several anti-… Read more »
@ CTIA: Billboard Mobile: Nokia Discusses Upcoming ‘Comes With Music’ Service
By Tricia Duryee
In the morning keynote at Billboard’s Mobile Entertainment Live the day before CTIA, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Tero Ojanpera, EVP of entertainment a… Read more »
Social Network Marketing Initiatives Boost Vivendi Games Mobile’s Surviving High School
By Dianne See Morrison
Vivendi (EPA: VIV) Games Mobile announced that its original episodic mobile game franchise Surviving High School–a story-driven simulation… Read more »
Vivendi Tries More Online Games Through Broadband Unit
In which universe would an ISP launch a massively-multiplayer online game (MMPOG)? In the French universe. Neuf Cegetel last night unveiled… Read more »
Universal Knuckling Down On Mobile, TV With Joseph UK Promotion
Vivendi’s (EPA: VIV) Universal Music CEO Lucian Grainge is reportedly aiming to develop better relations with mobile and TV companies by pro… Read more »
Thumbplay Partners With Sony BMG For Mobile Content
By Tricia Duryee
New York-based Thumbplay said it now has distribution agreements with three of the top four record labels with today’s addition of Sony (NYS… Read more »
Second Time Lucky? Vivendi Formally Introduces Mobile Portal Zaoza
By Dianne See Morrison
French media and telecoms giant Vivendi (EPA: VIV) has commercially launched its previously announced entertainment portal Zaoza today, whic… Read more »
@ MWC: Omnifone Does Unlimited Music Access With LG, Universal Gives Tunes
More detail on yesterday’s preview. Universal Music Group has licensed its tunes to Omnifone’s new out-of-the-box all-you-can-eat download s… Read more »
Vivendi: Q4 Revs Up 8.5 Percent; UMG Slides 3.1 Percent; Digital Music Up 54 Percent
By Joseph Weisenthal
Media conglomerate Vivendi (EPA: VIV) has released preliminary Q407 data showing revenue of Read more »
Nokia To Share "Comes With Music" Revenue With Operators
By James Quintana Pearce
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) will share revenue from Comes with Music service with operators that are cooperative, reports Bloomberg. “In those cases w… Read more »
Vivendi In Talks To Buy Remaining Part Of French Carrier Neuf Cegetel
By Carlo Longino
Vivendi (EPA: VIV) is in talks to acquire the remaining part of French telecom provider Neuf Cegetel it doesn’t own, according to a statemen… Read more »
Mobile Services To Help Nokia Take On US Market
By Dianne See Morrison
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) wants to re-take its lead in the US market, and mobile telephone services are at the heart of its strategy to boost its sh… Read more »
Music Royalty Reform Delays ‘Hold Back’ Labels; A DRM-Free Price War
Music companies want Europe to overhaul its music licensing systems to better cope with digital distribution – but the European Commission h… Read more »
Universal Music And Nokia
By Dianne See Morrison
When Nokia (NYSE: NOK) announced its one-year free music offer Read more »
Vivendi’s Portal Zaoza To Launch Jan: France, Then UK and Germany
By Rafat Ali
Vivendi, (EPA: VIV) which announced its strangely-named portal last week, has now announced that Zaoza will launch in January, and the site… Read more »
Earnings: Vivendi Plans Entertainment Portal; Universal Slides Despite Digital Doubling
Vivendi (EPA: VIV) will this week test a “content and services platform” website that, whilst secretive, could be a direct-to-consumer onlin… Read more »
Sony Ericsson Plans For Mobile Music Store In Q208; Signs 4 Major Labels
By James Quintana Pearce
*Sony Ericsson* has announced plans to launch a mobile (and online) music store in the second quarter of 2008 in a bid to counter moves by N… Read more »
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