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Major ticket broker TicketMaster has announced a definitive agreement to acquire popular online ticket reseller TicketsNow for an undisclosed amount. TicketMaster, a subsidiary of of Barry Diller's IAC media empire—which also runs search engine Ask.com and online dating service Match.com—will use the acquisition to give it a leg-up in the increasingly competitive ticket resale market. TicketMaster also plans to leverage its… Read More

As fans nationwide begin to line up for midnight showings of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, online movie ticket sales company Fandango announced their latest advanced ticket sales numbers. Like their announcement earlier this month, the latest Harry Potter movie looks to be on its way to setting box office records. Fandango said that Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire had, as of yesterday, accounted for 93 percent of advanced ticket… Read More

The Vogtland Public Transit Association (Zweckverband Öffentlicher Personennahverkehr Vogtland) has commissioned Siemens Business Services to devise a pilot solution for electronic ticketing. The association expects this model project for a "pocket-sized ticket machine", the first of its kind in Germany, to lead to lower costs, increased revenue and improved customer loyalty. Since passengers in the Vogtland and the so-called EgroNet… Read More