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TicketFly Rounds Up $3 Million to Fight Ticketmaster

Peter Kafka in Media on May 12, 2010 at 8:30 am PT

Average concertgoers go to two shows a year, and there’s a very good chance some of the money they spend on those shows goes to Ticketmaster, which dominates the ticketing business. So here’s a company that wants a piece of that: TicketFly, a New York-based start-up that wants to–gasp!–use the Web to update the archaic business.

Here’s a First: Man Arrested for Not Using Twitter

Peter Kafka in Media on November 22, 2009 at 5:46 am PT

Police charge a record company executive who didn’t use the messaging service to break up a near-riot of teenage girls at a Long Island mall.