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Digital Media: Music-streaming service looks to amp up competition in Europe -- Rhapsody is invading Europe. The music-streaming service has acquired Napster Intl., which will notably expand the company's footprint in Germany and the U.K -- both important beachheads as the company joins the larger fight for international auds.
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Digital Media: 3 million-plus copies of videogame sold in first week -- In the biggest launch of a game so far this year, "Gears of War 3," from Microsoft and Epic Games, has sold more than 3 million copies in its first week.
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Digital Media: First 'social series,' starting with 'Aim High,' to bow on Oct. 18 -- Warner Bros. will launch its series of Web shows on Facebook on Oct. 18, with the McG-backed "Aim High" bowing first.
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Digital Media: Hollywood ability to repurpose content impresses investors -- Hollywood studios don't directly own much of cyberspace, but the investment community is impressed at how the film biz suddenly seems adept at harvesting it.
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Digital Media: Net undaunted by format's struggles elsewhere -- These haven't been the best of days for 3D TV.
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Digital Media: Online service branches into summer fests -- With Coachella and Bonnaroo under its belt, YouTube will live stream this year's Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits.
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Digital Media: Swedish music streaming service offers 'freemium' model -- After long delays, European music streaming service Spotify finally launched in the U.S. on Thursday.
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Digital Media: Exec starts WWE rival 'Wrestling Revolution' -- What started out as frustration has evolved into a business.
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Digital Media: Panel says it creates a dedicated fan base -- At the Thursday panel titled "Conquering Social Media: How Do We Best Engage Fans Now" at Variety's Sports Entertainment Summit, Perkins Miller, chief operating officer of Universal Sports Networks, said social media has created more devoted and aggressive TV viewers.
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Digital Media: Home entertainment vet to help VOD distrib -- Gravitas Ventures, one of the industry's leading VOD distributors, has hired Chad Miller as director of business development after a six-year stint at AT&T U-verse Television.
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Digital Media: James Murdoch worried over Google, Apple -- James Murdoch has told an international media confab that News Corp. is "not big enough" to compete with "much, much bigger beasts" such as Google and Apple.
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Digital Media: Plan calls for regulation of VPF deals, open non-DCI technnology -- As the international exhib confab CineEurope (formerly Cinema Expo International) celebrates its 20th edition, the digitization of multiplexes and movie houses remains a major topic on the agenda.
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Digital Media: Blu-ray, streaming services put pressure on older format -- Consumers keep spending less on DVD as they switch over to Blu-ray, streaming services like Netflix and VOD, with the aging disc format earning 44% less last year than it did in 2009, despite strong sales for Fox's "Avatar."
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Digital Media: Game chief says PlayStation hacking investigation continues -- The as yet unidentified hacker stole info on about 77 million accounts for the two services worldwide from Sony's San Diego servers.
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Digital Media: Epix deal points to high stakes in windows game -- Netflix wants to leverage its goodwill to overhaul the nature of its business.
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Digital Media: Power Rangers owner adds Paul Frank Industries -- It's clear that billionaire media mogul Haim Saban meant business.
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Digital Media: How new formats change the equation -- Here's a look at the new release timetable that has emerged in recent months.
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Digital Media: Survey finds 1 in 8 households will lose signal -- A survey sponsored by broadcasters says nearly 2.2 million households that rely on antennas for their TV reception are unprepared for the shutdown of analog TV signals on Friday.
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Digital Media: Network modifies presentation, content -- DirecTV is relaunching its 101 Network on May 31 to coincide with encore presentations of HBO faves "Deadwood" and "Oz."
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Digital Media: ProSiebenSat.1 inks VOD deal with Discovery -- Warner Bros. Intl. Television Distribution has inked a multiyear licensing agreement with On Demand Deutschland, a joint venture between London-based On Demand Group and Germany?s Tele Muenchen Group, to launch its subscription video-on-demand service Warner TV.