BUSINESS NEWS
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| Pepsi Drops $100 Million On Naming Rights Deal The developers of the under-construction $2 billion dollar Xanadu entertainment complex in the Meadowlands have recently announced plans to build the world's largest ferris wheel. |
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| Hollywood Writers Approve New Contract Members of the Writers Guild of America have overwhelmingly approved a new contract with Hollywood studios that increases payment for shows offered on the Internet, the union said Tuesday. |
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| The RIAA One Year Later As the recording industry’s nationwide legal battle against college music sharers enters its second year, Ohio University — once ground zero in that campaign — is no longer under fire. |
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| Live Nation Narrows Q4 Losses Live Nation Inc., the nation's largest live event and venue management company, said Thursday it narrowed its fourth-quarter loss. |
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| Broadway's Producers & Stagehands Meet Negotiations stretched into early Monday between striking Broadway stagehands and theater producers. |
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Juilliard School Met Opera Partners With JuilliardThe Metropolitan Opera is expanding its young artists program by partnering with the Juilliard School, one of its Lincoln Center neighbors. |
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| Mobile Music On $17.5B Track Despite Ringtone Decline The global mobile music market is expected to rise to more than $17.5 billion by 2012. |
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| Medeski Martin & Wood Invite You To Their Music Camp World. Ready? This summer, pack up your instrument, open your mind, and enter the boundary-breaking world of Medeski Martin & Wood. |
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Rodeo Hispanic Group Calls For Boycott Of Houston Rodeo A group of Hispanic leaders said Tuesday that Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo officials haven't done enough to include Hispanics, so they are calling for a boycott of the three-week show that starts Monday. |
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| Fisk Unveils New Musical Research When people say John Work III had "big ears," they're not being unkind. |
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| iTunes Lays Questionable Claim To #2 Music Retailer Title Apple announced that iTunes is now the number two music retailer in the US, behind only Wal-Mart, based on the latest data from the NPD Group and that iTunes now has 50 million customers. |
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Fox 'Vantage Point' Tops Box OfficeThe political thriller "Vantage Point" secured the top spot at the weekend box office, earning an estimated $24 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. |
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