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Google Aims to Raise $4 Billion in Secondary Stock Offering
o Yahoo
Maintains Market's Lowest Pricing for Music Service Launch
o Sony Introduces New "Bean"
Line of Flash-Based MP3 Players
o SBC Announces Set-top Vendors,
Details for Internet TV Service
o Report: 27% of Game-Compatible
Cell Phone Owners Are Playing
o The Mobile Media Company
Raises $3.75 Million
o Parent Co. of Zingy, MusiKube,
Vindigo Plans U.S. Stock Offering
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Briefly Noted: USA Today -
consumer technology magazine, Toshiba - perpendicular iPod drive,
Loudeye - MSN Music, XM Satellite Radio - Rascals, Kor Hotel Group -
Sony PlayStation 2, Cingular - Foo Fighters, Amp'd Mobile - Snoop
Youth Football League, Electronic Arts - "FIFA 06" cover athletes -
soundtrack, 2K Sports - "World Poker Tour," Jamdat's "Tetris" -
Korea, Emergent Game Technologies - NDL, Playlogic Entertainment,
iPod - No. 1 promotional incentive
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o Google Aims to Raise $4 Billion in
Secondary Stock Offering
Mountain View, Calif. -- Google announced on Thursday that it
plans to sell another 14.2 million shares, in anticipation of
raising over $4 billion in a secondary stock offering. The company's
shares debuted at $85 in their IPO a year ago, which raised $1.7
billion. Since then, Google's shares have tripled in value; the
company plans to sell the shares in the new offering at $285 each.
Mountain View, Calif.-based Google will use the proceeds from the
offering for general corporate purposes, as well as for potential
acquisitions.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050818/185244.html?.v=1
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/050818/google_offering.html?.v=18
http://shorterlink.com/?56T9GX
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o Yahoo
Maintains Market's Lowest Pricing for Music Service Launch
Santa Monica, Calif. -- Yahoo on Thursday officially launched its
music subscription service, Yahoo Music Unlimited, in the U.S. The
company slightly altered the market-leading subscription price for
the service, which allows unlimited downloads from its million-song
library while a user remains a subscriber: previously available for
$4.99 per month during beta testing, the service will now cost $6.99
per month, or $4.99 per month if purchased as an annual
subscription. The service's launch will be promoted through a
multi-faceted ad campaign featuring minutely-drawn, detailed
depictions of well-known musicians including Green Day, Missy
Elliot, Big & Rich and Ciara, which will kick-off during the MTV
Video Music Awards on Aug. 28.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050818/185227.html?.v=1
http://music.yahoo.com
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o Sony
Introduces New "Bean" Line of Flash-Based MP3 Players
San Diego -- Sony Electronics said on Thursday that it will
release a new series of flash memory-based Walkman digital audio
players in the U.S. in October. The Walkman NW-E300 "Bean" players
feature an FM tuner, come in a range of colors, and support MP3,
ATRAC3, WMA and WAV formats, as well as downloads from Sony's
Connect online music store. The $129, 512MB and $179, 1GB capacity
models are currently available for pre-order from Sony.
http://www.sony.com/bean
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o SBC
Announces Set-top Vendors, Details for Internet TV Service
San Antonio -- SBC Communications announced on Thursday that it
has signed Scientific-Atlanta and Motorola to supply set-top boxes
for its planned service that will deliver TV programming over
broadband lines (IPTV). The IPTV set-top boxes, which will run on
Microsoft's IPTV software, will come without traditional tuners,
allowing them to receive multiple video streams, and will feature
next-generation compression technology enabling them to store
content more efficiently on their digital video recorders. The SBC
U-verse TV service is scheduled to launch in limited markets in late
2005 or early 2006. The company then plans to expand the service in
mid-2006, adding features like whole-home digital video recording
and HDTV.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050818/185391.html?.v=1
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o Report: 27%
of Game-Compatible Cell Phone Owners Are Playing
Port Washington, N.Y. -- The number of U.S. wireless subscribers
with compatible handsets who played games on their cell phones
increased from 20% last year to 27% in 2005, according to a survey
of 8,500 subscribers conducted by market research firm NPD Group.
However, only one-third of these mobile gamers actually purchased
game downloads; the rest played free games or titles that came
pre-loaded on their phones. The most common motivation cited among
respondents for playing mobile games was "to kill time or alleviate
boredom," with the average gaming session lasting 11 minutes. The
survey found more kids between the ages of 13 and 17 (60%) said they
played mobile games than did adults (23%), while mobile gamers were
twice as likely to be African-American, Hispanic or Asian. "The
world of mobile gaming is like the Wild West," said NPD Group vice
president Clint Wheelock. "In this time of rapid growth, and with
the industry in such a formative stage, it's especially important
for wireless operators and game publishers to understand the
mindsets of mobile gamers, in order to best position themselves for
long-term success."
http://tinyurl.com/8fsda
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o The Mobile
Media Company Raises $3.75 Million
Vienna, Va. -- The Mobile Media Company, a distributor of mobile
entertainment and interactive TV technology, announced on Thursday
that it has received $3.75 million in venture capital financing,
from a group of undisclosed investors. The Norway-based company
recently acquired streaming video developer Rubberduck Media Lab,
and also signed a deal to provide interactive TV applications to
China's Hunan Movie and Television Channel. The company will use the
funds to expand its global operations, and increase the scale of its
business in North America.
http://www.mobilemedia.com
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o Parent Co. of
Zingy, MusiKube, Vindigo Plans U.S. Stock Offering
New York -- The Japanese parent company of U.S. ringtone firm
Zingy, song ID service MusiKube and mobile city guide provider
Vindigo is planning a U.S. stock offering on the Nasdaq, Forbes.com
reported. Japanese mobile entertainment publisher For-side.com
currently plans to sell shares in some or all of its U.S.
subsidiaries either late this year or in early 2006. Forbes.com
reported that "speculation among mobile content competitors is that
the roll-up would be headed by Zingy CEO Fabrice Grinda.
http://tinyurl.com/9b62e
http://www.zingy.com
http://www.musikube.com
http://www.vindigo.com
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o Briefly Noted: (McLean, Va.)
USA Today said on Thursday that it will publish an 80-page consumer
technology magazine to ring in the holiday shopping season. The
annual publication, to be called USA Today Now Personal Technology,
will go on sale the week of Oct. 17, highlighting consumer
electronics products and trends. Content will be produced by USA
Today staff, as well as from technology website CNET.com. Gannett
said that it will print a minimum of 300,000 copies, with a cover
price of $4.95.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050818/dcth017.html?.v=23
(Tokyo) Japanese consumer electronics firm Toshiba has begun
shipping a new perpendicular hard disk drive, which can hold 40GB on
a single 1.8-inch disk platter and will likely allow Apple to offer
lighter iPods with higher capacities, The Register reported.
Toshiba, which is the primary supplier of hard drives for Apple's
iPod, also expects to offer a two-platter, 80GB version of the
perpendicular drive later this year.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/17/toshiba_perpendicular_hdd
(London) Loudeye, a provider of branded digital music download
stores and other digital media services, announced on Thursday that
it has extended its relationship with Microsoft's MSN Music, and
will power new MSN Music download stores in Norway, Denmark, Finland
and Sweden. Seattle-based Loudeye also powers MSN Music stores in
the U.K., France, Italy, Germany and Spain, in addition to the
Australian NineMSN music download service.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050817/sfw076.html?.v=24
http://www.loudeye.com
(Washington) New Jersey-based Headliners Entertainment Group said
on Thursday that it has signed a licensing agreement with DC-based
XM Satellite Radio, a provider of satellite radio services with more
than 4.4 million subscribers. Under the deal, XM will broadcast the
company's Rascals Comedy Classics library and the new Rascals Comedy
Hour being taped at Rascals club locations. The library features
over 200 hours of classic stand-up comedy performances.
http://biz.yahoo.com/pz/050818/84171.html
http://www.xmradio.com
http://www.rascals.net
(Los Angeles) The Kor Hotel Group announced on Thursday that it
has begun offering Sony PlayStation 2 and PSP video game systems to
overnight and day guests at its Viceroy Santa Monica, Viceroy Palm
Springs, Avalon and Chamberlain properties. "Portable entertainment
units like PSP are in demand right now, and we feel we're staying
attuned to what's relevant and current," said Kor Hotel Group
president John Arnett.
http://www.thekorgroup.com
(Atlanta) Cingular Wireless said on Thursday that it will debut a
new single from RCA recording artists the Foo Fighters as a ringtone
offered to its subscribers. The ringtone for "D.O.A." is now
available for purchase and download, in advance of its first radio
airplay on Aug. 22.
http://www.cingular.com
(Los Angeles) Mobile entertainment publisher Amp'd Mobile
announced on Thursday that it will sponsor hip-hop artist Snoop
Dogg's Snoop Youth Football League. As part of the deal, Los
Angeles-based Amp'd will create a league-branded channel on its
service and also develop a Snoop Youth Football League 3D
multiplayer mobile game, which will launch later this year.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-et-snoop18aug18,1,1583169.story
http://www.ampdmobile.com
http://www.snoopdogg.com
(Redwood City, Calif.) Electronic Arts announced on Thursday that
it has signed soccer stars Freddy Adu, Ronaldinho and Omar Bravo to
serve as cover athletes for its "FIFA Soccer 06" title, due for
release in the fall. The company additionally announced the roster
of tracks it has licensed for inclusion on the in-game soundtrack to
"FIFA 06." The game will features tracks from a range of
international artists, including LCD Soundsystem, Oasis, Royksopp,
Kinky, Mando Diao, Subsonica, Paul Oakenfold and Bloc Party.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050818/185590.html?.v=1
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050818/185124.html?.v=1
http://www.fifa06.ea.com
(New York) 2K Sports, a unit of video game publisher Take-Two
Interactive, on Thursday announced that it has signed pro poker
players including Erick Lindgren, Evelyn Ng, Michael "the Grinder"
Mizrachi, Lyle Berman, Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari, Phil "The
Unabomber" Laak and Mimi Rogers to appear in its "World Poker Tour"
video game. The game will also feature digital recreations of six
Tour casinos. 2K Sports plans to release the title in the fall for
handheld and console systems.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050818/185197.html?.v=1
http://www.2ksports.com
(Los Angeles) Mobile game publisher Jamdat Mobile on Thursday
announced the launch of its "Tetris" mobile game in Korea, with
local carriers LG Telecom, SK Telecom and KTF Telecom. The release
comes in the same week as Jamdat's launch of "Tetris" on a number of
European wireless networks.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050818/185043.html?.v=1
http://www.jamdat.com
(Calabasas, Calif.) Emergent Game Technologies, a provider of
video game development tools and online infrastructure, announced on
Thursday that it has merged with NDL, developer of the Gamebryo 3D
game graphics technology. Financial terms of the deal were not
disclosed. The merged company will be known as Emergent Game
Technologies and will remain headquartered in Calabasas, Calif.,
while NDL will continue to operate in Chapel Hill, N.C. as the
company's base for sales and marketing.
http://www.ndl.com
http://www.emergentgametech.com
(Amsterdam) Video game publisher Playlogic said on Thursday that
it signed an agreement with DC Studios, to publish the developer's
"State of Emergency 2" for PlayStation 2 worldwide in the fall of
2005. Separately, Amsterdam-based Playlogic said it acquired the
forthcoming roleplaying game "Age of Pirates" from Russian developer
Akella, and will publish the title in the fourth quarter.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050818/nyth072.html?.v=16
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050817/nyw095.html?.v=22
http://www.dc-studios.com
http://www.akella.com
http://www.playlogicgames.com
(New York) The New York Times reported on Thursday that,
according to Incentive magazine, the Apple iPod mini is now the No.
1 "motivational" electronics product being used to entice consumers
to open bank accounts, join gyms and purchase various goods. Bank
One, Chase and Citibank have offered iPod Shuffles as incentives to
customers signing up to pay their bills online; Chicago's Lakeshore
Athletic Club is offering them to new members; one Chicago club even
offered Shuffles as VIP passes for favored patrons. "The bank or the
gym, or whatever, if you're handing out a product that's really hot,
you're also going to be seen as hot and exciting," Claire Rosenzweig,
president of the Promotion Marketing Association, told The Times.
"You're going to get that shared equity. When you're trying to get
attention, you're going to use a product that says to your potential
customer: 'You want to do business with us.'"
http://tech.nytimes.com/2005/08/18/technology/circuits/18ipod.html
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