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Seismic seizes $2 million in funding for social games
Company TownSeismic Games became the latest start-up company to dive into social games, snagging $2 million in funding from DFJ Frontier, investor Tom Matlack and others -- all before releasing its first title.... -
The name of the game at Electronic Entertainment Expo: sequels and music
Special to The TimesThis is a "transformative year," Mike Griffith, chief executive officer of Activision Publishing, said during a news conference this week. And while he was referring to his own newly expanded company (Activison recently merged with Vivendi Universal),...Tags: Action (genre), PlayStation 3, Wii, Activision Blizzard, Inc., Death
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E3 after hours: What time is the next party?
Special to The TimesIs there any event as brazenly inattentive to the coolness of Los Angeles as the Electronic Entertainment Expo (or E3) week? Like mayflies, armies of suited video game industry executives and programmers and all other manner of power-geek descend on L.A....Tags: Gaming Industry, Forestry and Timber, Lifestyle and Leisure, Rap (genre), Montana
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Hollywood 'Balkanization' Makes Contract Talks Ever More Complex
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersAs Hollywood holds its breath over the possibility of a writers strike, ongoing internal struggles within the writers and actors guilds and at the studios are making this year's negotiations the most complex ever. Within both unions and the handful of...Tags: Viacom Inc., Strikes, National Football League, Wage Contract Issues, Unions
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Rap figure cleared in officer shooting
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTyran "Tah Tah" Moore was cleared as a suspect Friday in the shooting of a New York police captain but remains in custody on an unrelated weapons charge. Moore, a fringe rap industry figure, was arrested Thursday after a tense, three-hour standoff with...Tags: Murder, Drugs and Medicines, Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes, Justice System
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Label finds rapper's crime doesn't pay
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersJailhouse rap has turned out to be a bust for Def Jam Records. The New York label last year won a multimillion-dollar bidding war to sign imprisoned rapper Shyne. Before the release of his debut CD, "Godfather Buried Alive," Def Jam made sure its new...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Jay-Z, Crimes, Rap (genre), Prisons
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Worker at the Inc. indicted
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterA federal grand jury in New York handed up a money laundering indictment Monday against a bookkeeper for The Inc., a record label owned by Vivendi Universal's Universal Music Group, the world's largest record corporation. The indictment of bookkeeper...Tags: Organized Crime, Crime, Law and Justice, Eliot Spitzer, Crimes, Prosecution
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Pact Expires; Studios, Writers Still Talking
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersHollywood studios appeared within reach of an agreement with television and film writers late Tuesday on a new three-year contract that could avert a crippling strike for the entertainment industry and the Los Angeles economy. As the old contract expired...Tags: Viacom Inc., Wage Contract Issues, Unions, Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), The Walt Disney Co.
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Rapper tied to Murder Inc. slain
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterGerard "D.O. Cannon" Fields, a rapper tied to Vivendi Universal's beleaguered Murder Inc. label, died Friday after a late-night shooting in the Jamaica district of Queens, N.Y. Fields was shot near 177th Street and 104th Avenue at 11:45 p.m. Thursday....Tags: Laws, Jay-Z, Drugs and Medicines, Murder, Crime, Law and Justice
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Ja Rule's manager arrested on money laundering charges
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBroadening an investigation into criminal activity at music label The Inc., federal officials Wednesday arrested the manager of rap star Ja Rule for money laundering. Ron "Gutta" Robinson, 29, was arraigned on money laundering charges in a Brooklyn, N.Y....Tags: Organized Crime, Crime, Law and Justice, Drugs and Medicines, Crimes, Prosecution
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Merger of Sony, BMG music labels wins endorsement of European Commission
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersEuropean regulators approved the merger of the music divisions of Sony Corp. and Bertelsmann on Monday -- a move expected to trigger massive restructuring that could include the loss of more than 2,000 jobs. The international deal still needs U.S....Tags: Restructuring and Recapitalization, Beyonce, EMI Group Ltd., OutKast (music group), Yo-Yo Ma
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At Warner Music, cuts go deep
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersThe folks at Warner Music Group Corp. are doing more than cutting records these days. They're also cutting jobs. In the year since Warner Music Chief Executive Edgar Bronfman Jr. and his fellow investors bought the once-venerated company, they have...Tags: The Seagram Company Limited, Napster Inc., Crime, Law and Justice, Warner Music Group Corporation, Crimes
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