Mobile music remains a challenging business for Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG), which reported today in its second quarter earnings ending March 31 that mobile remains “soft” as ringtone sales…

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Madonna is certainly working mobile with her upcoming album “Hard Candy.” So far, she has a deal with Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) to deliver tracks to its subscribers a week before…

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Are ringbacks just not marketed properly? According to a slew of analysts ringbacks are poised to pick up the slack in the declining ringtone market, but they’ve got to be…

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Samsung’s foray into mobile content continues: the handset maker has struck a deal with Warner Music that will see Madonna’s upcoming album “Hard Candy” and the video for her single…

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New York-based Thumbplay said it now has distribution agreements with three of the top four record labels with today’s addition of Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG. The new partnership adds about…

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Warner Music saw ringtone sales fall in the US and remain “flat” internationally in the first quarter, according to CFO Michael D. Fleisher speaking during the company’s earnings call Wednesday.…

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Warner Music boss Edgar Bronfman has finally admitted that the record labels effectively went to war with their customers, and warned the carriers not to do the same thing. “We…

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*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 Nokia (NYSE: NOK)—and to…

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Warner is withholding its music from the Nokia Music Store in part because of concerns its music is being traded illegally on Mosh, reports the WSJ. This was covered a…

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Disney’s (NYSE: DIS) mobile content strategists “think 900 numbers are going to be really big,” joked Bernard Gershon, SVP of ABC News Digital Media at the content provider panel of…

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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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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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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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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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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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Warner Music Group’s Edgar Bronfman, Jr., may have urged mobile industry bosses to simplify their screens for music in Barcelona this morning, but MTV is happy to take on the…

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Warner Music has forged a partnership with Egypt’s Orascom, the leading mobile phone group in the Middle East, and believes that this will help profitably sell music to mobile customers…

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The conference call for Warner Music fourth quarter earnings focused a lot on mobile and online music—probably because it’s the growth area. In the introductory speech CEO Edgar Bronfman spoke…

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Warner Music has teamed up with Catalyst Mobile, a music and entertainment services provider with a sharp focus on Asia, to launch the Warner Music Group Rhino Mobile service to…

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Warner Music Group artists such as Linkin Park will be airing original video content on MobiTV’s subscriber-based mobile and broadband platforms starting in February as part of a deal announced…

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The keynote of Motorola CEO Ed Zander was mostly a sales pitch, but that’s to be expected and it’s mostly to find out what one of the biggest handset manufacturers…

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Borrowing from a Q&A session with financial analysts, The Red Herring reports Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. is particularly bullish about mobile music and mobile music videos. In…

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Warner Music Group has posted a fiscal Q4 profit helped by gains from litigation against online music service Kazaa, but sales fell due to a weak release schedule compared with…

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