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"For the first time ever, Microsoft will bring together Xbox LIVE games and the Zune music and video experience on a mobile phone, exclusively on Windows Phone 7 Series. Partners have already started building phones; customers will be able to purchase the first phones in stores by holiday 201"

 Hulu investor  Providence Equity Partners is pumping $50 million into a new online video company set up by Chinese Internet search giant  Baidu. The news comes roughly 7 weeks after Baidu confirmed plans to established a new independent company to provide licensed, advertising-supported online video content to Chinese Internet users.

A sour economy and civil litigation - including one suit filed by Titan Media Group's parent company - have prompted video website Veoh.com to file for bankruptcy. Veoh co-founder Dmitry Shapiro wrote in a blog post that despite "great vision, a passionate team, tens of millions of users, millions in revenues and victory in court were not enough."

Teens and tweens spend an average of 7.5 hours per day playing games, watching videos, and listening to music on their mobile devices.

Thanks to Fox News, strong DVD sales and a better performance from television stations, News Corp. reported a 10% jump in fiscal second-quarter revenue to $8.7 billion and big jumps in operating income at its movie and television studio and cable television group.

David Moore discusses the issues concerning original premium content and the internet, and suggests a pay model as a means of solving the problem

Video game software sales across the world's three largest markets--the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom--fell 8 percent in 2009, according to a joint report issued Wednesday by a consortium of industry analyst firms.

The Universal Music Group could rewrite U.S. music pricing when it tests a new frontline pricing structure, which is designed to get single CDs in stores at $10, or below. Beginning in the second quarter and continuing through most of the year, the company's Velocity program will test lower CD prices. Single CDs will have the suggested list prices of $10, $9, $8, $7 and $6.