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Seattle (WA) - Starbucks has announced it plans to give away free music downloads across its entire US chain to promote the coffee house’s upcoming promotion with the iPod.
More than 10,000 stores will hand out a total of 1.5 millions songs per day from October 2 to November 7.  Customers will receive a “song of […]

Just saw this on TechCrunch this moring, “AllofMP3 To Rise From The Dead” …
The owners of the now infamous cut price Russian MP3 retail site AllofMP3 have posted that the site will soon recommence trading.
The announcement follows a Russian court decision August 15 that found AllofMP3’s previous CEO was not guilty of breaching Russian copyright […]

From a consumer standpoint, Allofmp3.com was pretty close to the perfect music service — dirt cheap, easy to use, and the choice of how you wanted your music encoded. Oh, and no DRM. But mix in the RIAA, the WTO, and a couple major world governments, and you’ve got a recipe that ends up […]

It’s official: MySpace parent company Fox Interactive Media has formally announced its acquisitions of image-sharing site Photobucket and slideshow mashup creator Flektor. Financial terms of the purchases were not disclosed.
Both acquisitions had been rumored for some time. The Photobucket deal, originally reported earlier this month, is inarguably the more significant of the two: Photobucket, […]

Dutch TV company Endemol, the creator of the “Big Brother” and “Deal or No Deal” shows, is being bought for $3.6 billion by a consortium that includes the company’s founder and the media empire controlled by the family of former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, Mediaset said today. More … (NYTimes)

Yep, you read it right George Lucas is still not done with the Star Wars universe. The Star Wars creator revealed to Fox News that he will make two more live-action Star Wars films.
“But they won’t have members of the Skywalker family as characters,” he said. “They will be other people of that milieu.”
The two […]

YouTube is going to share revenue collected from banner ads with the indie video creators on whose pages the ads appear. However, this will be in extremely limited fashion — launching today with just 20 to 40 top producers on the site, such as Lonelygirl15, LisaNova, and Smosh. The deal elevates these select creators to […]

[clickz] Online video platform Joost has signed three-month contracts with a group of 31 big brand advertisers, including Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, Nike, General Motors and Visa. It will offer these marketers traditional units such as :30 mid-roll spots as well as unique formats, including a small digital overlay ad.
“The foundation is the traditional :30 […]

MySpace has offically launched their Spanish speaking site at latino.myspace.com in BETA.
According to the 2000 U.S. Census there are more than 28 million people who live in the U.S. and speak Spanish as their first language.
Along with the U.S., MySpace has already been offering sites for Internet users in the UK, Japan, France, Germany, Australia, […]

Comcast purchasing the popular movie site Fandango for an undisclosed amount (sources via TechCruch say the amount is around $200 million or more).  Apparently, since Comcast is a public company, the price may be disclosed once the deal is finalized.
It’ll be interesting to see what the cable company’s plans for Fandango are.