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Viacom announced a 5 year alliance with the world's largest software company on Wednesday, giving the content created significant online reach.

The heads of Hollywood's film and TV studios signed a statement of unity on Sunday, a day after striking screenwriters signaled they would try a divide and conquer strategy in an increasingly bitter strike that is paralyzing the industry.

U.S. media conglomerate, Viacom Inc plans to ship 1.3 million copies of its MTV-based video game Rock band in the fourth quarter, the company said Monday.

Viacom’s MTV Networks, publisher of the new “Rock Band,” says the music-based video game is selling so well that copies have been “flying off the shelves” in its first week, according to Reuters.

MTV's Rock Band video game took the stage on Tuesday, a new entrant in the fast-growing genre of musical games that could boost the fortunes of the flagging music industry.

DreamWorks principals David Geffen and Steven Spielberg have been negotiating to move their studio to NBC Universal from Paramount Pictures, the New York Times reported on Saturday.

CBS Corp. filed a motion Thursday to dismiss the $70 million breach of contract lawsuit filed against it by Dan Rather, calling the former CBS Evening News anchor's claims far-fetched.

Indian media company Network18 said on Wednesday it would invest $90.5 million over three years in its joint venture with Viacom Inc, which will launch a Hindi-language general entertainment channel in India next year.

Viacom Inc said on Friday its quarterly profit rose 80 percent, boosted by the sale of its music publishing unit, strong cable advertising and blockbuster turnout for the alien robots movie Transformers.

Hulu, an online video service formed by two media conglomerates, will begin a private test on Monday with two new partners in one of big media's most ambitious attempts to court viewers wherever they spend time.

After more than a decade on the air, Comedy Central's The Daily Show With Jon Stewart has its own online home.

Media companies including Viacom, Microsoft Corp., News Corp.'s Fox and MySpace units and others have agreed to guidelines aimed at protecting copyrights online, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

Viacom Inc's MTV Networks is expected to on Tuesday announce plans to merge its online digital music offerings into a joint venture with music software company RealNetworks Inc, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Viacom Inc's Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc said on Monday they will release their next-generation DVD titles exclusively on HD DVD ahead of what they say could be the biggest holiday season ever for DVDs.

MTV Networks plans to invest well over $500 million in video games, seeing the red-hot entertainment category as a major pillar of growth in its goal to reach consumers wherever they spend time.

Comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, whose programs were once among the most viewed on YouTube, were requested by the video site to give testimony in legal proceedings as it fights a $1 billion lawsuit by Viacom Inc, according to court filings.

Viacom Inc on Thursday posted a better-than-expected profit, boosted by DVD sales and the box office hit 'Shrek The Third.'The film division helped second quarter results with a string of theatrical hits that also included 'Blades of Glory' and 'Disturbia.'

While young people embrace the Web with real or virtual friends and their cell phone is never far away, relatively few like technology and those that do tend to be in Brazil, India and China, according to a survey.

The Redstones, the family that controls Viacom Inc. and CBS Corp., have taken their private squabble public in a battle that throws into question succession plans for the global media company.

Viacom Inc. Vice Chairman Shari Redstone may leave the board over a falling out with her father, Chairman Sumner Redstone, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

Rupert Murdoch, who is pursuing a $5 billion bid for Dow Jones & Co., will be the center of attention when the world's biggest media chiefs gather this week at the 25th annual Allen & Co. conference in Sun Valley, Idaho.

Top online video service YouTube will soon test a new video identification technology with two of the world's largest media companies, Time Warner Inc. and Walt Disney Co.

Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA) reported a 36 percent loss in profit on Thursday on rising operating costs and restructuring, but was higher than Wall Street expectations.

Media giant Viacom Inc (NYSE: VIA) said on Tuesday that it will partner with the much-hyped Joost Internet video service created by the founders of Skype.

Viacom (NYSE: VIA) informed YouTube on Friday that over 100,000 unauthorized clips on its web site – representing 1.2 billion video streams – must be removed immediately from its site.

MTV's 24-hour college network, mtvU, a division of Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B) has agreed to purchase the Internet's largest listing of college professor ratings, RateMyProfessors.com.

MTV said on Friday it will acquire Harmonix Music Systems, a music-orientated games creator, for $175 million in cash. The acquisition will offer MTV's website visitors a more diverse entertainment selection.

Men's cable channel Spike TV is joining other Viacom properties that have taken their content digital in a significant way with Wednesday's official launch of a broadband player on SpikeTV.com.

Time Warner Inc.'s AOL said on Thursday it will offer movies from four major Hollywood studios for downloading on its new Internet video service.