Updated: Seems like the decision has been reversed: Reuters reports again that a Verizon Wireless spokeswoman said it will now be putting all Bob Marley material back up for its…

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Home Phone Tunes has launched Ringboxx, a $60 device that lets you assign music and audio content to calls coming in on your landline. Universal Music Group and indie label…

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Music in Asia is a blessing and a bane to the beleaguered music industry: Asian markets have been some of the most lucrative for the digital music industry in terms…

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Interesting tie-up, though surprised why SonyBMG would go this route: it has tied up with Italian mobile content firm Dada to form a joint venture company in U.S. that would…

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Just came out of an evening mini-conference on mobile music here in London, called Mobile Music Now! (Readers: the exclamation point is part of the name. Read into it how…

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Warner Music Group and Sony BGM have teamed up with Russian holding firm Access Industries to create a wholesale B2B distribution vehicle for online and mobile music. Russia is one…

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Vodafone U.K. will trial a new off-portal service that gives users access to Sony BMG music tracks via a “text trigger.” Put simply, the service - developed together with mobile…

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Something I missed while I was at the conference last week: 3UK has signed a deal with Groove Mobile to sell music videos via a dual-download service. “The video downloads…

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Gavin Parry, general manager of sales and digital at Sony BMG, gave a talk on music and communities at the Mobile Content World Australasia 2007. Most people are familiar with…

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We covered this a few days ago, but it has now happened...British company Omniphone has launched a mobile music service dubbed MusicStation in Sweden on Telenor, with plans to launch…

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Universal Music Group (UMG) and Germany’s net mobile AG (net-m) have expanded their existing partnership in Germany to cover the rest of Europe, Asia pacific and South America. The goal…

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Sony BMG Music Entertainment has signed a deal with MobiTV to create a series of ad-sponsored customized channels featuring original video programming for the label’s artists. The first one is…

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The publishing arm of music label EMI has filed a $100 million lawsuit against Infospace earlier this year, alleging that the company and its subsidiaries Moviso and Premium Wireless Services…

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Vivendi (VIV.PA) reported Q1 earnings of $1.04 billion (771 million euros), a 22 percent increase over Q106. Revenue was $6.7 billion, up 5.3 percent over the same period last year.…

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Universal Music Group has promoted Rio Caraeff—formerly Vice President & General Manager of Universal Music Mobile—to Executive Vice President of eLabs/General Manager of Universal Music Mobile (UMM). Caraeff will continue…

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Warner Music Group has created a new division, named Den of Thieves, which will produce original programming for the mobile platform, as wella s for network, cable, DVD and broadband.…

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Emotive Communications, a mobile music startup founded by Anthony Stonefield (founder and CEO of Moviso), has received $7.7 million in funding from some heavyweight names. The first round included The…

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James Blunt and Hard-Fi will start blogging on YouTube and Flickr using their mobile phones today as part of a deal between mobile video social network provider Shozu and labels…

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Sony BMG Music Entertainment has sealed a deal with Global Music International a content aggregator active in the Chinese market, to deliver the music label’s stockpile of Chinese and western…

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Eric Nicoli crammed a lot into his first major U.S. address since taking the full operational reigns as CEO of EMI. The obligatory announcement: EMI Music will be the exclusive…

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Reading it here first: Tom Ryan, who recently left EMI as SVP of digital and mobile and development worldwide, has now joined Bessemer Venture Partners as an entrepreneur-in-residence. He will…

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Warner Music Latin America is launching a series of video ringtones, reports Billboard.biz. It’s signed up Sierralta Entertainment Group to make the videos with Latin models synchronized with some Warner…

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Mobile media company Player X has partnered with Hollywood Gaming and EMI Music Publishing for a new mobile game concept that incorporates the song lyrics from EMI’s catalog of artists.…

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Endemol has teamed up with Tila Tequila, a MySpace artist, to produce a video for small screen devices. The video, which has been available on the decks of some mobile…

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It seems that music executives aren’t as out of touch with general opinion as people think… the BBC writes on a study by Jupiter Research showing that many music industry…

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