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A new media world: Napster's 10-year anniversary
Comment To Hank Berry (and to some extent the Bertelsmann AG and BMG Entertainment groups): I bestow the You Were Dead Right Award for actually seeing the commercial possibilities of online music/content distribution. [03 Jun 2009]
Tiscali CEO: Bandwidth is key to fat pipe nation
Comment Her background is in retail and Turner originally trained as an accountant, but she has more than a decade's experience in the technology industry, becoming general manager UK and VP marketing Europe for AOL... [21 Feb 2008]
Bertelsmann Mediasystems Implements Userfriendly "One-Step Business" at BMG
White Paper Even famous musicians need to be marketed. For every new CD that comes on the market, a huge promotion is launched to ensure that the CD achieves spectacular sales in the shortest time possible. The sale of marketing items is fully... [28 Sep 2007]
Integrated Edge Security Improves Media Company's Network Security and Performance
White Paper Arvato Systems provides communication services for parent company Bertelsmann, a worldwide media corporation. The company needed to give remote employees more secure access to Web-based applications, but its firewall... [05 Sep 2007]
Sony BMG faces ongoing rootkit fallout
News Sony BMG, which Sony operates jointly with Bertelsmann Music Group, agreed earlier this week to pay $1.5m in fines and pay customers in California and Texas whose computers suffered damage as a result of Sony's... [21 Dec 2006]
YouTube is doomed, says analyst
News The analysts wrote: "You may tell me that companies like Warner Music are happy to work with YouTube, just as Bertelsmann was willing to work with Napster. Another internet research company has predicted doom for... [03 Oct 2006]
Q&A: Seven years of Agenda Setters
AS Analysis Bertelsmann and Vivendi Universal also made the top 10 that year. Launched in 2000, the annual silicon.com Agenda Setters poll aims to create a who's who of the individuals bossing the tech industry.silicon.com editor... [25 Sep 2006]
Book Club Case Study - Emexus & ECI
White Paper ECI, part of the Bertelsmann Group, is the Netherlands' largest book club with a customer base of over 1.1 million members. The goals were to increase orders by mobile ordering channel, increase customer loyalty,... [12 May 2006]
Bertelsmann eyes a 'MySpace' for silver surfers
News German media group Bertelsmann plans a return to the internet and is looking at transforming its Direct Group of book, CD and DVD clubs into an internet networking scene for older people. Thielen said... [04 Apr 2006]
Who is Sony's new CEO?
Comment Pulled off acquisitions including merger of Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group and purchase of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer last year. The news earlier this week that Sony had chosen a British executive as its new... [08 Mar 2005]
Music industry ditches hardcore copyright for 'free love' tunes
News Record companies in Europe, however, still seems to be worried about the prospect - Bertelsmann BMG, the world's fifth-largest record label, recently launched CDs in three formats including luxury and no-frills version... [06 Oct 2004]
Napster backers must face the music
News A federal court has allowed record labels to continue a lawsuit against Bertelsmann and Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, both onetime backers of the defunct Napster file-swapping network. UMG Recordings and Capital... [15 Jul 2004]
Leader: The iTunes fight-back starts here
Leader Bertelsmann has announced it will now be selling three different types of CDs with varying whistles and bells, from video footage and a shedload of extras to the most austere - an almost blank CD in an inlay card-less case. [05 Jul 2004]
Bertelsmann launches 'anti-piracy' CDs in Germany
News Bertelsmann BMG, the world's fifth-largest record label, is to offer different types of CD formatting in a bid to increase sales in an ailing record industry. By essentially selling its own bootleg-style versions of CDs,... [05 Jul 2004]
AS03: Media barons' influence wanes
Comment Trivia question: Can you name the bosses of Vivendi Universal and Bertelsmann? In silicon.com's last poll the chief executives of Vivendi and Bertelsmann, the controversial Jean-Marie Messier and Thomas... [10 Oct 2003]
