International Business News - WMG http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Among the stock activity stories for Wednesday, Nov. 26, from AP Financial News: NEW YORK (AP)--Shares of Warner Music Group Corp. climbed Wednesday after the company's fiscal fourth-quarter earnings results topped Wall Street's expectations. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081126/movers-roundup-warner-music-assurant.htm Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:32:31 EST Shares of Warner Music Group Corp. climbed Wednesday after the company's fiscal fourth-quarter earnings results topped Wall Street's expectations. On Tuesday, Warner Music, whose artists include Madonna and Linkin Park, reported its profit rose 20 percent to 4 cents per share. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters forecast a loss of 2 cents per share. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081126/warner-music-rises-on-solid-4q-earnings-results.htm Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:43:47 EST Among the earnings stories for Tuesday, Nov. 25, from AP Financial News: Top stories: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081125/earnings-roundup-hormel-warner-music.htm Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:48:46 EST Warner Music Group Corp. beat Wall Street expectations with its fourth-quarter results Tuesday and announced that digital revenues at its Atlantic Records unit had surpassed compact disc sales for the first time, a major industry milestone. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081125/warner-music-group-4q-profit-rises-20-percent.htm Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:14:31 EST Jonathan Nelson, the chief executive of private equity firm Providence Equity Partners Inc., resigned from the board of Warner Music Group Corp. on Friday, saying the firm's 8 percent stake didn't justify his time relative to other investments. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081024/providence-equity-ceo-leaves-warner-music-board.htm Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:38:55 EDT Ticketmaster said Thursday it is taking a majority stake in talent agency Front Line Management Group Inc. in a transaction worth more than $150 million, while also making the agency's co-founder Irving Azoff its new chief executive. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081023/ticketmaster-buys-stake-in-talent-agency.htm Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:56:13 EDT First a CD-trading site, then a free Web-based music browser, lala.com is being born again. The site is relaunching Tuesday as a hybrid, offering the digital download functionality of iTunes and the free music streaming of MySpace Music without the ads. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081021/lala-com-gives-digital-music-another-try.htm Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:49:10 EDT First a CD-trading site, then a free Web-based music browser, lala.com is being born again. The site is relaunching Tuesday as a hybrid, offering the digital download functionality of iTunes and the free music streaming of MySpace Music without the ads. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081020/lala-com-gives-digital-music-another-try.htm Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:27:51 EDT Here's a look at the top record labels, their artists and their U.S. market share as of Oct. 9:--UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP: 35.12 percent market share in U.S. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081010/top-record-labels-artists-market-share.htm Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:55:15 EDT Now that Sony Corp. and Bertelsmann AG have broken off their troubled relationship, known as Sony BMG, the Japanese company hopes to harmonize its consumer electronics and its music, a duo that was badly out of sync. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/149378-sony-bertelsmann-glance.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081010/sony-seeks-to-harmonize-music-electronics.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081010/sony-seeks-to-harmonize-music-electronics.htm Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:37:57 EDT EMI Group PLC, the world's fourth-largest record label, has joined Nokia Corp.'s "Comes With Music" mobile phone service, and the handset maker has set pricing for its U.K. launch. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081002/emi-joins-nokias-comes-with-music.htm Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:20:14 EDT Royalties that digital music companies from Apple Inc. to record labels pay songwriters for selling their music as ringtones, CDs and permanent digital downloads are to be set Thursday by a federal agency. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081001/federal-copyright-board-to-set-music-royalties.htm Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:02:53 EDT MySpace's new music service managed to bring major record labels together, but a group that licenses song rights for thousands of independent labels feels left out and angry, partly because indie musicians were a big reason the social networking site rose to prominence in the first place. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/139695-myspace-music.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080926/myspace-songs-launch-irks-independent-music-group.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080926/myspace-songs-launch-irks-independent-music-group.htm Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:57:29 EDT Make room, iTunes. MySpace is hoping to shake up the digital music scene. In a bid to spruce up its popular online hangout, MySpace plans to flip the switch Thursday on a much-anticipated service that will give its roughly 120 million users free access to hundreds of thousands of songs from the world's largest recording labels. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/138417-myspace-music.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080925/myspace-tries-to-strike-new-chord-in-digital-music.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080925/myspace-tries-to-strike-new-chord-in-digital-music.htm Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:36:14 EDT Make room, iTunes. MySpace is hoping to shake up the digital music scene. In a bid to spruce up its popular online hangout, MySpace plans to flip the switch Thursday on a much-anticipated service that will give its roughly 120 million users free access to hundreds of thousands of songs from the world's largest recording labels. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080924/myspace-tries-to-strike-new-chord-in-digital-music.htm Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:30:05 EDT Just as vinyl once gave way to compact discs as the main physical medium for music, could CDs be replaced now by a fingernail-sized memory card? Perhaps not entirely, but SanDisk Corp., four major record labels and retailers Best Buy Co. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. are hoping that albums sold on microSD memory cards will at least provide an additional stream of sales. The companies were expected to unveil plans Monday to sell memory cards loaded with music in the MP3 format, free of copy protections. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080922/companies-joining-to-push-music-on-memory-cards.htm Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:32:28 EDT Warner Music Group Corp. said Tuesday that it is reorganizing its international business, which includes the departure of the group's Chairman and Chief Executive, Patrick Vien. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080916/warner-music-group-reorganizes-intl-business.htm Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:54:30 EDT Warner Music Group Corp., whose artists include Linkin Park and Madonna, said Monday it signed a license deal to market and distribute EMI Music releases in South East Asia. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080908/warner-music-group-signs-deal-with-emi-music.htm Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:55:47 EDT Gamers with a hankering to watch music videos will have more choices after Warner Music Group Corp. announced Thursday it is adding its library of videos to Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 game console. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080814/xbox-to-sell-warner-music-videos-for-1-99.htm Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:18:46 EDT Among the stock activity stories for Wednesday, Aug. 13, from AP Financial News: LOS ANGELES (AP)--Shares in Warner Music Group Corp. slid 9.3 percent Wednesday after a filing showed top music executive Lyor Cohen sold 800,000 shares, more than a fifth of his stake in the company, earlier in the week. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080813/movers-roundup-warner-music-viropharma.htm Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:41:13 EDT