Sony BMG, Universal questioned about venture talks: source
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The U.S. Department of Justice has requested information from Sony BMG and Universal Music Group about their talks to launch an online music subscription service, said a record company executive on Thursday.
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Unlaunched TotalMusic prompts price fixing concern Two major labels have been served notice of a fresh antitrust investigation, a music business newsletter reports today. MusicAlly's daily Bulletin suggests that the as-yet-unlaunched TotalMusic service, currently backed by Universal and Somy BMG, has prompted notices from the US Department of Justice. The report suggests all four major labels have been contacted.â¦
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A group of investors led by Japan's Sony Corp. has raised its offer for Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to nearly &#36;5 billion in an attempt to beat out rival bidder Time Warner Inc., a source close to the matter said on Monday.
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Vivendi said Wednesday its Universal Music arm had agreed to buy BMG Music Publishing in a $2.1 billion USD deal. In return, BMG parent Bertelsmann AG has agreed to pay $60 million to settle litigation surrounding its support of Napster.
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Sony Corp  will look beyond its  current partnership in flat panels with South Korea's Samsung  Electronics  and may tie up with other firms, the  Mainichi newspaper reported on Thursday.
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Japanese consumer electronic giant Sony is hoping to close a deal that will give it control of the famed MGM studio in the United States.
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The lead analyst of last week's JupiterResearch report showing a majority of music industry executives in the EU agreeing that a world without digital rights management would be a world with greater revenues, told BetaNews in an exclusive interview this afternoon that his firm believes a single, open, interoperable, standard DRM scheme would still be rejected by consumers.
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LOS ANGELES Oct 29, 2004 - Sony BMG Music Entertainment and online peer-to-peer software distributor Grokster are working on a new venture that is expected to offer paid and free song downloads over the Internet, sources say.
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Sony, the Japanese electronics and entertainment group, has approached arch-rival Toshiba in an attempt to prevent a damaging format war over their next-generation DVDs.
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission  said on Tuesday that Sony BMG agreed to settle charges that it  secretly embedded potentially damaging anti-piracy software in  some of its CDs.
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Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company, has declined to sign a long-term deal with Apple Inc.'s  iTunes music store, leaving open the possibility for exclusive deals with other services, an industry source said on Sunday.
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NEW YORK - Sony Corp has conceded to demands from its consortium partners to reduce fees it would get from managing Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.
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Europe's top court said on Thursday  Japanese electronics giant Sony and Germany's Bertelsmann have  appealed against an annulment of their joint venture that  created the world's second-largest music company.
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The reasoning behind Web radio service Last.fm's refusal to take part in the webcasters' "day of silence" protest of exorbitant royalty fees that take effect this month became clear Monday, as the company announced a licensing deal with Sony BMG.
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The decision by a group of European labels to legally challenge the European Commission's approval of the Sony/BMG merger could raise questions for future deals.
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The electronics and entertainment giant Sony Corp. (SNE) is talking with Wal-Mart Stores Inc...
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Japan&#39;s Sony Corp. said on Friday it was in talks to sell more electronics goods in North America through discount retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc.