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Over 5.9b video clips were downloaded during January 2008. 116m viewers spent an average of 2 hours or longer watching online video, downloading over 50 videos per person. Women tend to download from home and child-based...

Licencing deal with European Music 2.0 service MusicMakesFriends. The service is live in nine European markets, and charges users

Licensing deal with Music 2.0 service MusicMakesFriends of entire digital catalogues to MusicMakesFriends new premium subscription service

Licensing deal to include The Orchard catalogue in as part of MusicMakesFriends service

Licencing deal to include The Orchard catalogue on MMF’s new stream on-demand premium subscription service

Deal to use Microsoft’s Silverlight browser plug-in in Nokia’s Series 60, Series 40 and Internet Tablet handsets

Global distribution agreement with Social.fm, which will involve marketing the latter service through Handmark”s relationships with mobile operators AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Orange and Telus.

Launch of a new online TV channel, called logically enough Pitchfork.tv. A mixture of mini-documentaries, rooftop and basement live sessions , interviews and music videos will be available

Deal to launch an MVNO in Japan in partnership with Softbank. The venture will sell branded handsets and will be targeting girls and young women

Mobile social media applications maker NewBay raised USD $4.96 million in its second round of funding. The funding was led by Fidelity Ventures with participation from Balderton Capital

Deal to sell DRM-free MP3 downloads from WMG’s catalogue. The catalogue will be available in 7digital stores in the UK, Spain, France, Germany and Ireland.

Deal to launch a new music show on MTV2 called The MySpace Chart. MySpace users will vote on 35-40 videos from the MTV2 playlist plus five videos from new bands, including some from MySpace itself