YouTube says Warner Music artists to return in the coming months; complete catalog by year-end

June 4th, 2009 Sony becomes 2nd label on Vevo music video site LOS ANGELES — Recording company Sony Music Entertainment has joined Vevo, an online music video site due to launch this year with the backing of Universal Music Group and YouTube. The music unit of Sony Corp.

January 19th, 2009 CANNES - Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias has said that illegal downloading of songs from the Internet 'is like going to the supermarket and coming out with... two melons under your arm, free: it's all stealing in the end', EFE news agency reported.

March 12th, 2009 LONDON - Music lovers who are addicted to watching online videos on Youtube will not be able to do so anymore as Google has blocked viewings after a dispute over licensing. Google had started blocking UK viewers from watching "premium music videos" from the night of March 9.

June 15th, 2009 Virgin Media and Universal launch music serviceLONDON — Virgin Media, the cable TV operator owned by entrepreneur Richard Branson, launched a new kind of music download subscription service Monday with Universal, the world's largest music company. The service, described by the companies as a world first, will allow Virgin Media's broadband customers in Britain to stream and download as many songs and albums as they like from Universal's catalog for a fee.

September 2nd, 2009 AP Sources: YouTube may offer online movie rentalsLOS ANGELES — YouTube, Google Inc.'s online video streaming service, is in talks with Hollywood studios to rent new release movies online, according to people familiar with the talks. The move follows similar deals by Apple Inc.'s iTunes and others.

September 17th, 2006 A blogger found a stash of 20, 000 MySpace passwords from a phisher's site and analyzed the results. Interestingly the most used passwords are: 13 - cookie123 12 - iloveyou 12 - password 11 - abc123 11 - miss4you 9 - password19 9 - clumsy 8 - sassy 8 - summer06 8 - pablobob 8 - boobie 8 - fuckyou1 8 - iloveyou1 8 - tink69 8 - password1 7 - gospel 7 - terrete 7 - monster7 7 - marlboro1 7 - bitch1 7 - flower 7 - space Link Does that give you an idea on the demographic profile of MySpace users? MySpace is also in news as Universal Music Group has said that social networking sites MySpace and YouTube are violating copyright laws by allowing users to post music videos and other content involving Universal artists without permission.

July 29th, 2009 Time Warner beats 2Q estimates; outlook steadyLOS ANGELES — Time Warner Inc.'s second-quarter earnings beat Wall Street forecasts Wednesday despite a declining advertising market, as its Turner cable networks held up better than expected and "The Hangover" became a sleeper box office hit. The New York-based media conglomerate also affirmed its projection for full-year adjusted earnings at roughly $1.98 per share, or flat year-over-year, and confirmed its spinoff of the AOL Internet portal would occur around the end of 2009.

January 24th, 2007 Some of my customers have complained that they were unable to access my site. They complained that the site was accessible by IP address (72.36.134.131) but not by domain name - http://blog.taragana.com/.

September 16th, 2009 American Express, Adobe, General Mills big moversNEW YORK — The following stocks were among those that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE: American Express Co., up $1.19 at $35.84 Analysts concluded that industry data shows the company is positioned to best recover from recent high defaults and delinquencies. Warner Music Group Corp., up 33 cents at $4.87 An analyst upgraded the recording company and applauded its decision to tap capital markets for permanent financing.

July 29th, 2009 Time Warner Cable 2Q profit up, but growth slowsNEW YORK — Time Warner Cable Inc., the second largest U.S. cable TV operator, on Wednesday reported a 14 percent increase in second-quarter profit but warned that subscriber growth continued to slow.

August 19th, 2009 MySpace scoops up popular Facebook app iLikeLOS ANGELES — Social networking hub MySpace said Wednesday it is acquiring iLike, a popular music application on rival Facebook, in the first move by new management to expand after a series of drastic cuts and writedowns. The $20 million agreement to purchase iLike confirmed rumors that had circulated this week.

October 2nd, 2009 Anne Frank museum launches YouTube channelAMSTERDAM, Netherlands — The Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam has begun airing the only known video of the teenage diarist on a channel dedicated to her on YouTube. The channel also features clips of others, including her late father Otto and Nelson Mandela, talking about Anne, museum spokeswoman Annemarie Bekker said Friday.

July 7th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Some California pot sellers are misusing social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter for selling marijuana. Los Angeles-based non-profit medical-marijuana dispensary Artists Collective advertises via tweets, which say: "Just in! Baby Crunch, Spy Diesel and Critical Mass! Buy a quarter, get a gram." In fact, Artists Collective also promises "free delivery" and has the biggest online presence, with a snazzy Web site, Facebook and MySpace pages and the Twitter feed.

April 17th, 2009 Record Store Day celebrates indie retailersPORTLAND, Maine — Despite the success of online retailers, explosion of Internet downloads and high-profile closings of Virgin Megastores and Tower Records stores, bricks-and-mortar record stores aren't all spinning toward oblivion. Although hundreds of independent music retailers have gone out of business in recent years, about 2,000 are still around, and many are thriving.

August 13th, 2009 On2 vows to fight challenges to Google acquisitionDOVER, Del. — Video software firm On2 Technologies said it will fight legal challenges to its planned acquisition by Google Inc.