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Apple to Sell MLB Videos Through ITunes - Forbes.com Apple Inc. said Friday it will offer Major League Baseball video highlights through its iTunes music and video store. Downloads of individual episodes of "Game of the Week" or "MLB.com Daily Rewind" will be priced at $1.99; a multi-pass for a month of shows will be priced at $7.99; or a season pass for every "Game of the Week" will be priced at $19.99. The announcement comes just two days ahead of opening day, and a couple of weeks after satellite television service provider DirecTV Group Inc. (nyse: DTV - news - people ) agreed to pay Major League Baseball $700 million for over seven years of broadcasting rights for baseball games. ...

Online video | Down the YouTube? | Economist.com IT HAS been a terrible month for Google, the biggest search engine and the internet’s reigning superpower, and for its subsidiary, YouTube, the pioneer and precocious leader of online video. Users may love them, but the old-media companies, feeling increasingly exploited, loathe them, sue them, and gang up on them. And that matters, because neither Google nor YouTube, as quintessential “new-media” companies, own any of the content that they organise so well. With the announcement on Thursday March 22nd of a new online-video venture between NBC Universal, the huge media unit of General Electric, and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, almost every big media company is now, with varying degrees of hostility, aligned against Google and YouTube....

InformationWeek Weblog: Yahoo And Microsoft Fight For Mobile Search While Google Pushes For The Entire Third Screen

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Associated Press Business News: Yahoo Seeks Content for Mobile Service - MSN Money (AP) - Yahoo Inc. is recruiting other Web sites to help make its mobile search services more useful for consumers and advertisers, marking another step in the Internet portal's push to build a lucrative sales channel beyond the personal computer. Web sites that want their content listed in Yahoo's mobile search index will be invited to submit material beginning Tuesday. Yahoo also will begin accepting applications from Web sites interested in participating in the Sunnyvale-based company's advertising network for mobile devices. "We think 2007 is going to be a watershed year for the mobile Internet," said Steve Boom, a Yahoo senior vice president....

Viacom files $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube and Google - International Herald Tribune NEW YORK: MTV owner Viacom said Tuesday that it is suing YouTube and its corporate parent Google Inc. in federal court for alleged copyright infringement and is seeking more than $1 billion in damages. Viacom claims that the more than 160,000 unauthorized video clips from its cable networks, which also include Comedy Central, VH1 and Nickelodeon, have been available on the popular video-sharing Web site. The lawsuit marks a sharp escalation of long-simmering tensions between Viacom and YouTube. Last month Viacom demanded that YouTube remove more than 100,000 unauthorized clips after several months of talks between the companies broke down. Viacom lashed out at YouTube's business practices, saying it has "built a lucrative business out of exploiting the devotion of fans to others' creative works in order to enrich itself and its corporate parent Google." Viacom said YouTube's...

Telecoms.com %u2013 News, Events and research for the telecoms industry : "According to the analyst, the gap could be closed by European operators if they focus on the needs of mobile users on the go and wean them off basic services such as SMS.Forrester says 52 per cent of Japanese mobile consumers browse the mobile internet regularly, leaving their European counterparts in the dust with just 10 per cent using the service.Niek van Veen, Forrester analyst and co-author of the report, 'Why Japanese mobile internet is a success and What European operators should do to catch up,'� told Telecoms.com that Europeans have been nurtured for too long on simple out-of-the-box solutions. 'Consumers in Europe are happy with their existing SMS service, they need to be encouraged to use more sophisticated tools.'Van Veen explained that in Japan, operators have already moved far beyond basic browser-like services such as mobile email and mobile portals while Europeans are more in...

Music's New Gatekeeper - WSJ.com Apple has jettisoned some of the conventions of traditional music retailing -- notably, the practice of selling prime promotional spots to recording companies willing to pay for better visibility for their acts. But behind the scenes there's plenty of horse-trading going on that influences which songs are seen and purchased by iTunes customers...

Music's New Gatekeeper - WSJ.com Apple has jettisoned some of the conventions of traditional music retailing -- notably, the practice of selling prime promotional spots to recording companies willing to pay for better visibility for their acts. But behind the scenes there's plenty of horse-trading going on that influences which songs are seen and purchased by iTunes customers...

Google Reveals Click Fraud Statistics We heard the rumors, we felt its existence, and we discussed about it in various forums and discussion boards; and now, it’s official. The online giant, Google (News - Alert) has finally revealed the data about the click fraud that was thought to exist. In its “Adwords” blog, Google declared that the invalid clicking accounts to a total of ten percent in the total adsense business.