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.

"The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) called on Thursday for public comment on the proposed merger between cable operator Comcast Corp and broadcaster NBC Universal. The media industry regulator is seeking comments and petitions by a deadline of May 3 and expects to respond to comments by June 2. It has set a final date of June 17 to respond to any further responses or oppositions."

"Time Warner Inc. is considering a bid of $1.2 billion to $1.5 billion for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. film studio, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions, as second-round offers come due tomorrow. Warner Bros. executives, including Chief Executive Officer Barry Meyer and Chief Operating Officer Alan Horn, will iron out a possible price tomorrow with Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes, said one of the people, who declined to be named because the talks are private. Time Warner may decide not to make an offer, the people said."

"Court documents in the $1 billion lawsuit between Viacom and YouTube were unsealed today, finally shedding some light on key questions: did Viacom have "smoking gun" evidence that YouTube was deliberately profiting from 62,637 Viacom clips that were watched more than 507 million times on the site? Was Google aware of the copyright infringement problems when it purchased YouTube in 2006? Were YouTube's own founders involved in uploading unauthorized materials?"

Google may close its Chinese branch over the government's desire to censor search results.

Television set-top box maker TiVo Inc. won an federal appeals court ruling expected to force Dish Network and EchoStar corporations to pay at least $300 million in damages for a patent violation.

Disney is planning to release "Alice in Wonderland" a month earlier than typical DVD releases. They hope to capitalize on buzz from the theatrical release. Surprisingly, movie theaters are not protesting the plan, in spite of the money they could potentially lose from the film being pulled early from theaters.

Viacom probably won't sue bloggers who post clips from their shows (like The Daily Show and Colbert Report), in spite of earlier reports that they intended to sue websites that made money on copyrighted material.

"A patent application by Google (GOOG), filed in August 2008 and only made public last week, shows that the company is working on an automated way to split printed magazines and newspapers into individual articles that it could then deliver separately. Although this could allow Google to convert stacks of periodicals into electronic archives, it potentially sends the company headlong into conflict with a famous Supreme Court ruling on media law."

Sony's Twitter account has generated over 1 millions British pounds in sales, and is especially effective at advertising in conjunction with traditional advertising platforms.

Disney has created iPhone apps that act as tie-ins with movies, among them an app that allows users to play as Alice and solve puzzles in Wonderland.

Discusses Rupert Murdoch's plans to challenge Google's use of his news content and wage war against the New York Times.

Discusses the challenges of charging readers for online news content, including competition between pay and free sites for readers.

Article predicts a steady increase in spending on digital advertisers by local companies through 2014, as well as a decrease in money spent on traditional ads.

Google recently acquired one of the largest mobile ad companies, perhaps indicating that the nascent industry could take off in the next few years.

The FCC is holding a Mrch 4 workshop to examine the future to media industries.

Discusses how the Kindle and iPad will impact the quality of book content by changing existing business models in the publishing industry.

An analysis of Google Buzz, and a little perspective on Google's broad ambitions: "We will index all the world's information, upload all the books, deploy the fastest network and design the coolest phone, while simultaneously managing your e-mail, pictures, blogs and anything else you'd care to upload to our online repositories."

Discusses how Google's ambitions have grown recently, as the company now desires to enter the realms of social networking and ecommerce. It's only a matter of time before Google conquers the world.