Tag archive: Agreement

Rumors may have pointed toward a Google or Facebook buyout, but Microsoft announced today that it has definitively agreed to purchase Skype for $8.5 billion in cash (we learned about this last night). The buyout has been approved by both companies. The Redmond software giant claims that it will continue to support Skype on non-Microsoft platforms, but is quick to point out that “Microsoft devices like Xbox and Kinect, Windows Phone, and a… Read More

Online radio stations, Webcasters, and record labels have reached a new agreement with royalty clearinghouse SoundExchange that resolves the long-festering dispute regarding royalties to be paid for streaming Internet radio. The agreement is based on an experimental formula that has “pureplay” Webcasters paying up to 25 percent of their revenues to artists and rights owners, depending on the size of their operations. To be… Read More

The Digital Media Association (DiMA) has announced a new agreement that aims to delineate how songwriters and music creators will be compensated for music distributed through online subscription servics. The agreement sets a basic 10.5 percent mechanical royalty on revenue generated from “limited download and interactive streaming services,” minus any amounts owed for performance royalties. The agreement doesn't apply to… Read More

Continuing to build on last month’s agreement by three ISPs to combat child porn and Google’s own effort to stamp it out, every single broadband cable provider in the U.S. signed an agreement Thursday to ensure that the Web sites providing such material would not be hosted by their networks. Unlike last month’s agreement, which will have ISPs actively blocking access to child porn sites for their users, the new… Read More

Epic Games scored a major licensing agreement for the ubiquitous Unreal Engine 3 this week, signing Electronic Arts on for more than five new games produced using its technology. The companies announced their expanded licensing agreement on Tuesday morning. Electronic Arts’ original 2006 licensing agreement covered a handful of titles already under development, such as Medal of Honor Airborne and Army of Two.  The company… Read More

Struggling communications and electronics giant Motorola has announced that it has reached an agreement with mega-investor Carl Icahn that will see two Icahn execs nominated to the Motorola board of directors, and stave off a proxy fight for control of the corporation. Under the agreement, William Hambrecht and Keith Meister will be nominated for election to Motorola's board, and in the interim Meister has been appointed to serve on… Read More

Under a new agreement between Google, which owns video site YouTube, and the MCPS-PRS, which collects royalties, British artists will now be paid when their content is used for backing tracks on videos posted tothe site.   MCPS-PRS said it has licensed 10 million pieces of music for use on YouTube. Although the agreement doesn’t address the copyright issue, it does mean performers will be paid.This mirrors a similar agreement… Read More

LG Electronics has announced it will begin offering mobile phone handsets with an integrated YouTube client later this year, enabling users to tap into the Internet's largest video sharing community. According to LG, the application will enable users to discover and view video, as well as upload new video directly to YouTube. “This new service will connect people like never before. For the first time, LG customers will be able… Read More

Video game behemoth Electronic Arts announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Massive, Inc., to provide dynamic in-game advertisements for EA's Xbox 360 and PC titles to clients around the world. Under the deal, downloaded in-game ad elements will be updated and changed in real time, keeping ads fresh, unexpected, and relevant for gamers. The first game to be “ad-ed up” will be Need for Speed Carbon, the… Read More

Members of the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA), a Washington D.C.-based industry and lobbying group representing cellular and personal communications industries, has unveiled a voluntary pledge made by its members to classify content offered via mobile wireless services, and to provide tools to filter and restrict content accessible to minors. The agreement initially divides content into two categories:… Read More

International thriller author Robert Ludlum's critically acclaimed books will soon be coming to a video game screen. Vivendi Universal Games today said they had inked an agreement with Ludlum Entertainment for the gaming rights to the late author's works. The long term contract, VU Games said, will grant them the right to "develop, publish and distribute multi-platform games based on the author's best-selling… Read More

Under the terms of the agreement, JAMDAT will publish the titles for multiple wireless platforms, including Microsoft's Windows Mobile-based Smartphone. The games will be distributed to consumersthrough wireless carriers in North America and the European Union, as well as select South American and Asia/Pacific markets, including, but not limited to, Brazil, Argentina, Japan, South Korea,Australia and Taiwan. The games are currently… Read More

Arca has signed an agreement with Wyse Technology Inc., of San Jose, California, to provide its 350MHz Arca-2 processor for an upcoming version of Wyse's Winterm 1000 line of thin clients that will be sold globally, said H.K. Hung, manager of Wyse China. Thin clients are computers that do not have a hard disk drive and access applications that run on a central server. Read the whole story at IT World.com.

Celebrating the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) seal of approval today on the historic “plug-and-play” agreement struck between major cable operators and consumer electronics manufacturersin December 2002, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) lauded the Commission for paving the way for swift and successful delivery of digital high-definition television (HDTV) products to U.S.cable households. “History… Read More

“The sun certainly is shining on HDTV today. DirecTV's HDTV package is what so many HD enthusiasts have been waiting for. Millions of satellite subscribers now can look forward to watching ESPN and Discovery in high definition, in addition to HDNet, via DirecTV. “Now, we continue to await the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) approval of the cable 'plug-and-play' agreement. With nearly 70 percent… Read More