Spotify is expected to introduce their ad-supported, free tier to mobile as well as proposing a drop in royalties to labels in order to stay afloat in these turbulent times.
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World-famous record label Warner Music has announced today plans to stop providing content for free music streaming services such as Spotify and Last.fm. Speaking to BBC News, Warner chief executive Edgar Bronfman Jr said that...
Warner Bros Entertainment are said to be in the early stages of a Midway acquisition deal, which is reported to be worth $33m. Following the collapse of Midway earlier this year, the Mortal Kombat developer...
According to Reuters, Internet-users in China will be able to download for free approximately 350,000 licensed songs--soon to be more than a million--through Google. Not only will the Chinese be able to search for songs...
TWC will be expanding its test of bandwidth caps to more cities in the coming weeks. Beaumont, Texas was the testing ground for TWC and has decided that its 40 GB caps for internet...
Today marked the start of something that could potentially be crippling to YouTube's new revenue endorsements. YouTube and Warner Music failed to reach an agreement to keep their content on the most popular video...
You're used to paying extra if you use up your cell phone minutes, but will you be willing to pay extra if your home computer goes over its Internet allowance? Time Warner Cable Inc. customers...
Time Warner Cable will experiment with a new pricing structure for high-speed Internet access later this year, charging customers based on how much data they download, a company spokesman said Wednesday. The company, the second-largest...
In response to consumer demand, Warner Bros. Entertainment stated today in a press release that it will release its high-definition DVD titles exclusively in the Blu-ray disc format beginning later this year. The announcement was...
Warner Music Group is making its music available for US downloads from Amazon in MP3 format without copy protection. Warner had been holding out against using the format because MP3 tracks are easier to share...
In response to rumours whispered by members of the Blu-ray camp, Warner Home Video announced that it will not be ditching HD DVD for Blu-ray. Warner Brothers is currently the only major studio to support...
Warner Bros. home entertainment division on Thursday said it would buy United Kingdom-based game publisher TT Games, the business behind the Lego Star Wars series. Financial terms of the deal, which is subject to regulatory...
Even though dual-format high-definition discs could end the war between Blu-ray and HD DVD formats, Warner Home Video says that it will be rather hard for a single studio to push its disc type with...
To combat movie piracy in the Asian Pacific countries, Warner Bros. announced plans to launch a new movie download service dubbed 08Media in Hong Kong. ViDeOnline Communications will offer the service initially with 100 titles...
Michael Robertson, founder of MP3.com, has launched a new music download service that sells DRM-free albums (no singles) in the MP3 format, but Warner Music Group is not happy about it. AnywhereCD currently offers a...
Warner/Chappell Music, the publishing arm of Warner Music Group Corporation, and Microsoft Corporation announced a worldwide music publishing administration agreement, whereby Warner/Chappell lays claim to compositions for Halo, Halo 2, Age of Empires, Fable, Kameo...
After Steve Jobs wrote that music companies should abandon digital copy protection, Warner Music chief Edgar Bronfman called on Apple to open up its iTunes software to other forms of DRM: "DRM and interoperability are...
According to Reuters, Warner CEO Edgar Bronfman recently admitted that his kids stole music. When asked whether any of his seven kids stole music. "I'm fairly certain that they have, and I'm fairly certain that...
Warner Music plans to release music albums on DVD discs that are laden with extras, including versions of the song as iTunes files. The Wall Street Journal explains that Warner and Apple are close to...
Apple is on a roll with securing video content agreements to flesh out its iTunes Music Store lineup. The iPod maker has struck several deals recently, including significant agreements with Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) and...
The movie giants have announced a service called In2Movies, which will distribute movies via peer to peer technology not too dissimilar to the methods used by illegal file sharers. ...
Warner Music Group Corp. has been subpoenaed by the New York Attorney General in connection with an ongoing antitrust investigation into the pricing of digital music downloads, the company said in a securities filing on...
Welcome Back, Welcome Back, Welcome Back..... "Welcome Back Kotter" is just one of the dozens of old television shows that will soon be available for free online thanks to a deal announced...
Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman responded angrily to Steve Job's comments last week about "greedy" record labels by suggesting that they should get a share in the iPod revenue. Bronfman argued that...
Time Warner Cable has struck a deal with privately owned BIAP that will allow cable customers to make Internet auction bids through eBay on their television. Time Warner Cable digital subscribers in the Austin, Texas,...
Today at the National Association of Broadcasters convention, NAB2005, Warner Bros. Studios and Microsoft Corp. announced their plans to collaborate on the release of a broad range of next-generation HD DVD discs using Windows Media®...
Microsoft and Time Warner have waived their right to a hearing in the continuing European Commission investigation into their plan to take over ContentGuard, which makes software for digital rights management, a person involved in...
Media company Time Warner Inc. has agreed to pay the U.S. government $210 million to settle charges that its America Online unit fraudulently inflated its revenue figures, court documents showed on Wednesday. Separately, Time Warner...
French technology company Thomson SA said Monday it was joining Microsoft Corp. and Time Warner Inc.'s proposed venture to make anti-piracy software, a move that could relieve European Union concerns about the pending deal. In...
The European Commission plans to send formal charges to Microsoft and Time Warner next week, listing objections to their takeover of ContentGuard Holdings, a source close to the situation said on Friday. ...
Media giant Warner Bros. today announced that it has acquired developer Monolith Productions, according to various news reports. Monolith, best known for its work on Tron 2.0, The Matrix Online, and the No One Lives...
It's no secret that Time Warner has been loosing money ever since it merged with AOL in 2001. Now Time Warner is determining whether or not America Online improperly accounted for losses at its...
A new scheme being championed by Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment boss Jason Hall would see publishers whose games are reviewed poorly being penalised by higher royalty payments to the license holder. Under the terms of...
Hewlett-Packard will supply computing power to movie studio DreamWorks SKG for Shrek 2 animation work and help Warner Bros. Studios restore films, the computer maker plans to announce Monday. The deals are HP's latest steps...
Former publisher Ubisoft gets prominent billing in recent DVD release; reissue on the way. Yesterday, Warner Bros. released the DVD version of The Matrix Revolutions. Included in the disc's assortment of previously...
Time Warner Inc. has not engaged in any talks with Microsoft Corp. about selling its struggling America Online Inc. unit to the software vendor, a Time Warner spokeswoman said today, contradicting a New York Post...
Time Warner Inc. is looking at different options for America Online, including the possible sale, spin-off or reorganization of the Internet service provider, according to a published report. The New York Post...
Signaling an increased commitment to the fast-growing interactive gaming world, Warner Bros. Entertainment has created Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Inc. (WBIE) and has named Jason Hall to head its operations as Senior Vice President, Warner...
AOL Time Warner Chief Executive Richard Parsons consolidated his power atop the world's biggest media company today, as the corporation's board of directors unanimously elected him to begin serving as chairman once Steve Case's resignation...
Thanks Josh for sending me this. Warner Bros. Pictures is in final negotiations to pick up the feature film rights to id Software Inc.'s video game property "Doom" in a progress-to-production deal that...
