MPAA, RIAA sour on Net’s Scour
Hollywood movie and music companies trained their legal guns on Scour.net on Thursday, filing a lawsuit against the search engine that locates digital music and video files on the Internet.
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Hollywood.com sees 42% surge in revs
Hollywood.com posted a 42% surge in second quarter revenues to $5.8 million, due to increases from business-to-business revs, ad sales and the addition of an online live theater ticketing biz. It did…
Kibu.com cuts deals with music labels
Teen Netcaster Kibu.com has inked a slate of pacts with music labels, including Jive Records, Capitol Records, Maverick Records and FarmClub.com. The Kibu Music Channel, targeted at teen girls, will…
iPublish inks digital deals
Time Warner Trade Publishing's ambitious, yet-to-be launched e-publishing division, iPublish, has inked a deal making two digital fulfillment services, Lightning Source and Reciprocal, its primary…
Sony, U invest in 360HipHop
360HipHop.com, the music portal launched last month by Def Jam Chairman Russell Simmons, on Wednesday received investments from Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group. The participants…
D-folk become e-exex
In the last year, dozens of young execs have migrated from studio development jobs into dot-com companies -- trading fast-track jobs for longer hours, less pay, dubious prospects for profitability…
Replay plugs into SoCal cable test for TW
ReplayTV got a big boost this week when Time Warner Cable selected the company to do a test of its digital video recording technology in conjunction with TW's cable TV service. Time Warner Inc. is an…
Ghuneim goes online as Columbia sr. VP
Mark Ghuneim has been upped from veep to senior veep of online and emerging technologies for the Columbia Records Group. A 12-year veteran of the label, Ghuneim will report to Columbia Records Group…
Launch Media ups Ferguson
Internet music site Launch Media has tapped former EMI exec Briggs Ferguson exec veep of production, strategy and marketing. Ferguson will oversee the marketing, programming, production and product…
Par pacts with AtomFilms
You can't call Paramount's Web efforts stodgy anymore. AtomFilms has landed the exclusive rights to Paramount Digital Entertainment's first entertainment property for the Web, the weekly animated…
