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Social Music Network Honours Online Music Innovation, Winning Developer Will Win Trip To London And VIP Tickets To Last.fm Live Event

03.31.2008 -- Last.fm announced today that it is sponsoring a new music category in Mozilla's Extend Firefox 3 contest. As part of the contest, which encourages Web developers to create innovative extensions or add-ons for the forthcoming major update to the Firefox Web browser, Last.fm will be judging entries and will award the best music-related extension entry.

The winner will be flown to the Last.fm office in London to meet the team behind the world's fastest-growing free music Web site; will attend a Last.fm/Presents live event as a guest of Last.fm; and will also receive a Logitech Squeezebox network music player.    » read more »

03.27.2008 -- Last.fm, the online music discovery network owned by the CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS.A and CBS), announced today that F. Scott Woods has been named Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Germany. Woods, who joins Last.fm from Google where he served as Head of Strategic Partnerships and Business Development, Northern and Central Europe, will oversee the expansion of the Last.fm presence in Germany, the country with the second largest Last.fm userbase after the U.S.

Woods will help set up a permanent Last.fm office in Hamburg, where he will manage all marketing, advertising sales and business development partnerships inside Germany and Northern Europe, as well as work with Last.fm's established German PR firm on communications opportunities.    » read more »

Drawing On The Collective Wisdom Of Mobile Users, CBS Is Able To Offer Consumers More Targeted And Relevant Content

NEW YORK and SAN MATEO, CA, March 26, 2008 -Today, CBS Mobile and Aggregate Knowledge announced they are teaming up to offer first-of-its-kind discovery and recommendation technology on mobile Web sites. By drawing on the collective wisdom of mobile Web users, CBS will be able to deliver consumers better targeted and relevant content, thereby making the experience more user-friendly.    » read more »

Washington, 24 March 2008 (By Mary Morningstar) -- Britney Spears made a guest appearance on the March 24 episode of 'How I Met Your Mother.' The CBS sitcom stars Neil Patrick Harris, Josh Radnor, Jason Segal and Alyson Hannigan.

E! Online reports that Alicia Silverstone was scheduled to appear in the same episode as Britney Spears, but cancelled after learning about Britney Spears' guest spot.

Josh Radnor told People magazine, "It pains me to report that on the first day of the shoot, Britney knew her lines better than I knew mine. She's been great to work with."

People also reports that Britney Spears played the role of a dermatologist's receptionist, who falls for Josh Radnor's character, Ted.

Source: VOANews.com

03.24.2008 -- Jeff Sellinger has been named Executive Vice President and General Manager, CBS Mobile, it was announced by Quincy Smith, President, CBS Interactive. In this role, Sellinger will oversee the division, which is dedicated to building and growing the Company’s mobile operation across its various properties—including CBS Entertainment, CBS Sports and CBS News. Sellinger has played a key role in the growth of CBS Mobile under Cyriac Roeding’s leadership since November 2005.    » read more »

Social music network launches application enabling users to listen to bands recommended by Bebo's new web drama heroine

NEW YORK and LONDON, 19th March, 2008 - Last.fm has teamed up with Bebo to enable fans of the social media network's new online drama, Sofia's Diary, to listen to main character Sofia's favourite music.

Last.fm's Superbands widget, integrated into the Sofia's Diary profile page on Bebo (bebo.com/sofiasdiary), allows fans of the new interactive web drama to listen to Last.fm radio stations based on the eponymous heroine's favourite music.    » read more »

NEW YORK and LONDON, March 14, 2008 — Last.fm, the CBS Corporation-owned social music Web site, today announced that recently released numbers by Comscore and Nielsen Online show that since it introduced free-on-demand service it has become the fastest growing free online music network in the U.S.

The third-party metrics issued by Comscore and Nielsen Online resemble internal numbers released last month by Last.fm showing the site experienced month-over-month growth across the board in terms of unique visits, page views and total minutes spent on the site.    » read more »

NEW YORK, March 5, 2008 -- Sumner Redstone, Executive Chairman of Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) and CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS and CBS.A), will speak at the Bear Stearns 21st Annual Media Conference in Palm Beach, Florida. Mr. Redstone's question-and-answer session will take place on Wednesday, March 12th beginning at approximately 8:00 AM (ET).    » read more »

- "Build.last.fm" showcases five years of developer innovation using social music network's open Web services
- Activity around external applications and widgets adds estimated 19 million music fans to Last.fm community

NEW YORK and LONDON, Feb. 28, 2008 - Last.fm today launched a new section called Build.last.fm, a gallery promoting the ever-growing number of Last.fm third-party applications that extend the Last.fm experience across the Web.    » read more »

Tuesday, February 26, 2008, INDIANAPOLIS -- CBS Sports has partnered with IMG College, a division of IMG Worldwide, as exclusive sales representative to work in conjunction with the CBS Sports Properties Group in the licensing of NCAA Corporate Marketing Rights on the Champion and Partner levels, it was announced today by Sean McManus, President CBS News and Sports.    » read more »

Comcast, Bresnan Sign on to Offer Customers Free March Madness Programming

- Simon & Schuster's Atria Books Acquires Flynn's Next Four Novels
- CBS Films Options Rights To Develop Feature Films Based On Flynn's Mitch Rapp Character

NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES, Feb. 14, 2008 -- CBS Films and Simon & Schuster/Atria Books -- both divisions of CBS Corporation -- have reached film and publishing agreements with best-selling author Vince Flynn for upcoming projects, it was jointly announced by Amy Baer, President & CEO of CBS Films, and Carolyn Reidy, President & CEO of Simon & Schuster.    » read more »

Feb. 13, 2008 -- This is a day of relief and optimism for everyone in the entertainment industry. We can now all get back to work, with the assurance that we have concluded two groundbreaking labor agreements - with our directors and our writers – that establish a partnership through which our business can grow and prosper in the new digital age.    » read more »

02.12.2008 -- CBS Sports today announced a comprehensive reorganization of its college sports operations, incorporating the cable, broadcast and online activities of College Sports Television (CSTV) into its world-famous brand.

Effective March 2008, CSTV will become the CBS COLLEGE SPORTS NETWORK, bringing the power of the CBS SPORTS name to yet another developing, cross-platform property. In addition, CBS Sports will begin developing proprietary programming for the cable network, and incorporate the growing online activities of CSTV into its industry-leading online operations.    » read more »

11 February 2008 -- U.S. television network CBS says two of its journalists have gone missing in the southern Iraqi city of Basra.

In a brief statement Monday, CBS says efforts are under way to find the journalists, whose names were not released. The network says it has been in touch with the journalists' families and asked that their privacy be respected.

Reports from Basra quote witnesses as saying about eight gunmen kidnapped the CBS journalists today from the city's Sultan Palace Hotel.    » read more »