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September 13, 2010: 8:05 AM ETA round-up of the companies, deals, and trends that made headlines.
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. While that's our job -- awesome, right? -- we realize our readers may not have the same luxury. To save you the trouble, we've assembled the weekend's most newsworthy bits below.
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Photo: MTV.com
With a traffic increase of 165% year-over-year, MTV has surpassed Vevo and MySpace Music as the number one online music hub. And as online video become an increasingly larger component in overall Internet usage, musicians are learning to adapt to the new format.
- Former Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo isn't the only top-level exec at the phone company to go: Anssi Vanjoki, head of Nokia's Mobile Solutions, is also leaving and longtime board chairman Jorma Ollila could step down after the company's general meeting in 2012. More
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Vevo bets on advertising for music videos online
This is one in a series of articles leading up to Fortune Brainstorm Tech, which takes place July 22-24 in Aspen, Colo. The articles will look back at the progress of companies that presented at Brainstorm in 2009 as well as look forward to those that will present this year.
By Shelley DuBois, reporter
Music videos fall into that category of much-loved content on the Internet that has companies scrambling to turn MORE
Jul 2, 2010 10:58 AM ET -
Can Steve Jobs unplug cable TV?
CBS and Disney may join Apple's $30 per month TV service, says the Wall St. Journal
This could be totally disruptive. Or it could be another "hobby" like Apple TV that never quite takes off.
In a front-page story published Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that CBS (CBS) and Disney (DIS) are "considering participating" in Apple's (AAPL) plan to offer television subscriptions over the Internet.
It was the first hint of interest MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 22, 2009 8:21 AM ETPosted in: ABC, Apple, Apple TV, CBS, Comcast, Comedy Central, Discovery, Disney, Fox, HBO, Hollywood, MTV, NBC, News Corp., Nickelodeon, Showtime, Steve Jobs, the CW, Time Warner, TV -
How the Beatles became a video game
Leave aside for the moment the rumors that Apple Inc. (AAPL) has invited a number of music industry professionals and press to an iPod/iTunes special event on Sept. 9.
We know for a fact that Apple Corps and EMI have scheduled the worldwide release of the original Beatles catalog -- digitally remastered for the first time -- in compact disc format on 09/09/09, an event timed to coincide with MTV Games' MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 19, 2009 8:02 AM ET
