Mar. 1: PlayStation 3 Bug; Icahn-Lionsgate; Universal Music-EFF; Platial-RIP

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Tokyo - Sony reports that a "connection failure," caused by a bug in the PlayStation 3's internal system clock, caused a widespread outage of its PlayStation Network online service over the weekend that continued into Monday. [more..]
Santa Monica, Calif. - Activist investor Carl Icahn has made a bid to buy shares that would increase his stake in Canadian film studio Lionsgate to 29.9%. [more..]
San Francisco - Universal Music Group has been ordered by a federal judge to pay some of the attorneys' fees incurred by Stephanie Lenz, whose video of her toddler dancing to Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" was wrongfully taken down from YouTube at the label's request. [more..]
New York - Looking for ways pare down expenses, AOL has sold U.K.-based Perfiliate, the operator of an affiliate marketing network under the brand name Buy.at, to London-based Digital Window.
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New York - Publisher Reed Business Information on Monday sold its Library Journal and School Library Journal titles to Ohio-based MediaSource, PaidContent reported. [more..]
Washington - The Internet now has surpassed newspapers and radio to become the third most popular news platform in the U.S., according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center. [more..]
Portland, Ore. - Platial, the provider of a social mapping service based on Google Maps API, has shut down its service, TechCrunch reported.
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Rockville, Md. - ZeniMax Media, the parent company of game developer Bethesda Softworks, has raised $1.8 million through the sale of options and warrants, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). [more..]
Miami - ConnectedMedia Technologies, a Miami-based digital multimedia firm targeting the U.S. Hispanic market, announced on Monday that it has acquired a controlling stake in Notus Digital Network, a developer of video-on-demand services.
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Briefly Noted

Los Angeles - The Pirate Bay has failed to remove links to a list of torrents linking to copyrighted files from its website, which per a Dutch court order's deadline should also have been blocked for Dutch users today, TorrentFreak reported. [more..]
New York - Thumbplay, a mobile entertainment distributor that recently launched a subscription music service, announced on Monday that it has hired former Apple executive Pablo Calamera as its new chief technology officer. [more..]
Los Angeles - Time Warner's Sports Illustrated Group on Monday announced the launch of a new daily video initiative on its website, which will include "SI Inside Report," to be anchored by Maggie Gray. [more..]
Los Angeles - The International Academy of Web Television on Monday announced nominees for its second annual Streamy Awards, which honor original Web video programming. [more..]
New York - Publisher Random House has established a department that will create original stories for video games, as well as consult on games in development, The Wall Street Journal reported. [more..]
Santa Monica, Calif. - Movieclips.com, a site that offers more than 12,000 clips from six Hollywood studios, announced on Monday that it has released an API that will allow developers worldwide to utilize its clips on third-party websites. [more..]
London - The British Library has embarked on a project to archive defunct U.K. websites, the Associated Press reported. [more..]

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