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Pirates and Profits: Three Reasons Why the Music Biz Can Finally Get Excited About India’s Billion-Sized Audience

Paramdeep Singh, Managing Director and Co-Founder, Saavn in Voices on April 20 at 1:11 pm PT

Digital music distribution has made huge changes to India’s music industry.

YouTube Preps Its (Sort of) Hulu Answer: Movies, TV Shows From Sony, Others

Peter Kafka in Media on April 16, 2009 at 1:52 pm PT

Here’s Google’s sort-of answer to Hulu: A newly designed page to showcase TV shows and movies, along with new players and a new ad strategy. What’s not included: almost any first-run TV show or newly released movie. That’s the content that’s made Hulu successful and what’s also driven traffic to offerings from CBS and Disney’s ABC. You can’t accuse the Google guys of overselling this: In a press conference today, they described it as a “first step, a baby step.”

The Oscars: The Party's Moved Online

Oliver J. Chiang in News on February 22, 2009 at 3:18 pm PT

The Oscars this year will remain decidedly low tech: There won’t be any live online streams where you can watch the 81st Academy Awards. But the real party goes on around the Oscars, anyway, in Web site predictors, mobile apps and other interactive technology. Here’s a list of all that and more, as the Oscars kick off now.

The Oscars: The Party’s Moved Online

Oliver J. Chiang in News on February 22, 2009 at 3:18 pm PT

The Oscars this year will remain decidedly low tech: There won’t be any live online streams where you can watch the 81st Academy Awards. But the real party goes on around the Oscars, anyway, in Web site predictors, mobile apps and other interactive technology. Here’s a list of all that and more, as the Oscars kick off now.