Digital Audio/Video News

LONDON (Billboard) - American pop singer-songwriter Pink will headline the 2010 Wireless festival in London's Hyde Park on July 2. Full Story »

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - MySpace on Tuesday announced that it has bought online music service imeem and is weaving it into the social networking community. Full Story »

DALLAS - Texas Instruments Inc. raised its fourth-quarter profit and sales outlook on Tuesday, citing an improving market for chips used in cell phones and other electronic gadgets like hard disk drives and video game consoles. Full Story »

LOS ANGELES - Music videos from Norah Jones, Coldplay, Katy Perry and other artists under EMI Group PLC are headed to an online music video venture, Vevo, set to launch Tuesday with a gala in New York. Full Story »

What could be cooler than surfing the Web and watching your big-screen TV at the same time? Getting rid of your cable box, perhaps. The folks who brought you the free Boxee software that transfers streaming video, music and other media from a computer to a TV announced upgraded features this week and debuted the first piece of hardware: A little black box (of course). Full Story »

LOS ANGELES - MySpace's online music venture with recording labels completed its purchase of song streaming site imeem on Tuesday, scooping up its 16 million users and mobile phone applications for less than $1 million. Full Story »

Last week was a busy one for acquisitions: Apple bought Lala, a streaming music service, and Google acquired AppJet, makers of realtime collaborative text editing software EtherPad. Google announced that the AppJet developers (many of whom previously worked for Google) would be joining the Google Wave team, improving the services offered by the new Wave product. Full Story »

There's been a lot of noise over the last few days about Apple's purchase of the online music-streaming service Lala. No one's quite sure what this means for the future of Apple's iTunes music service, or Lala's own service. Full Story »

JERUSALEM - YouTube's chief executive says ad sales are soaring, but there is still no word on whether the popular video-sharing site is making money. Full Story »

Several months after purchasing music discovery service iLike, MySpace has also snapped up streaming music site imeem. With Apple buying Lala, is there a land rush on for streaming music services? Full Story »

The buzzy (and buzz-worthy) online video management software Boxee has become a set-top box, with the help of D-Link. So instead of using your spare laptop or Mac Mini to run Boxee, you can now buy a dedicated piece of hardware (with Boxee baked in) and plop it down by your TV set. Yay! Another box for the living room! Merry Christmas! Full Story »

BOSTON - A graduate student who must pay four record labels a combined $675,000 in damages for downloading and sharing songs online has been ordered to destroy his illegal music files — but a judge declined to force him to stop promoting the activity that got him in trouble. Full Story »

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SHANGHAI (AFP) - Chinese regulators have closed down hundreds of video sharing websites in a new push to control Internet content, reports said Monday. Full Story »

Lala might've been the biggest threat to Apple's iTunes with its free full-song previews and unlimited streaming for ten cents per track, but not anymore. Apple has confirmed reports that it will gobble up Lala, but won't say how much it paid or what it will do with the startup's services. Here's how I'm hoping it'll play out: Full Story »

Music service Vevo will include content from EMI Music when it launches this week the site announced Monday. Full Story »

LONDON (Reuters) - Music-lovers watching their favorite acts at live concerts are increasingly becoming targets for gangs of mobile phone thieves, British police said on Monday. Full Story »

Apple has acquired online music streaming company Lala, the company said Monday, adding to the ways it could offer music to users. Full Story »