July 16: iPhone 4-Free Bumpers; RealD IPO; U.S. Game Sales Down 6%; Threadbox

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San Francisco - Apple CEO Steve Jobs addressed growing concerns over iPhone 4 antenna reception issues at an hastily arranged press conference on Friday, pledging to provide any upset consumers a free $29 "bumper" case that's said to alleviate reception woes. [more..]
Los Angeles - Shares of digital 3D cinema company RealD were up 22% above their initial public offering (IPO) price on Friday, opening at $19.55 before settling around $20, Reuters reported. [more..]
Port Washington, N.Y. - U.S. video game sales were down 6% in June, to $1.1 billion, when an uptick in console sales could not offset declines in sales of handheld systems and games across all platforms, according to a report from market research firm NPD Group. [more..]
Mountain View, Calif. - Google has so far spent $100 million defending itself against a $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuits brought against it by Viacom in 2007, the company told reporters on its earnings conference call on Thursday. [more..]
Sunnyvale, Calif. - Yahoo on Friday announced a local advertising partnership with Gannett, a publisher of 81 newspapers including USA Today. [more..]
Los Angeles - News Corp.'s MySpace online social network has acquired the assets and employees of Threadbox, the provider of a social messaging service, VentureBeat reported. [more..]

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Digital Music Forum, West - October 6-7, 2010 - Los Angeles, CA
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Briefly Noted

San Bruno, Calif. - Justin Bieber's music video "Baby ft. Ludacris" on Thursday briefly overtook Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" as the most-watched YouTube video of all time, YouTube said in a post to its Twitter feed. [more..]
Los Angeles - News Corp.'s MySpace online social network is testing a new profile page design, which features a new left-hand navigation, increased focus on the news stream, and the ability to follow friends on other social networks, Mashable reported. [more..]
London - Virgin plans to launch an "iPad-only" magazine title in October, AdAge reports. Maverick is being headed by Virgin head Richard Branson's 29-year-old daughter Holly, along with former FHM editor Anthony Noguera, AdAge reported. [more..]
New York - Sony Music is planning to launch its own online download store for classical music and maybe jazz, All Things D reported, citing sources. [more..]
Los Angeles - Live video streaming platform Ustream has added new copyright protection technology from Vobile, BayTSP and TVAura, Billboard reports. [more..]
Foster City, Calif. - Sony's PlayStation 3 will be the exclusive game console with access to the Hulu Plus video subscription service this year, Ars Technica reported. [more..]

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