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BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- Google Inc. took control of online ad tracker DoubleClick Inc. Tuesday just hours after European regulators cleared Google's $3.1 billion bid for the company. United States regulators cleared it in December. Approval from the EU was the last hurdle before the deal could conclude. - Wired

In a groundbreaking move, music giant Sony BMG is the first major label to sign up to the site WE7 - which offers music streaming free of charge - and will start making the back catalogs of its best-selling artists available by the end of April. Sony BMG is reportedly making over 250,000 tracks from its archives available on the site.However, users will not be able to download the tracks to their home computers and will only be available stream music through the site.
IFC Entertainment bought the worldwide rights to Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig's romantic drama Nights and Weekends... It marks the first acquisition of a SXSW premiere during the fest. - Mar 10, HollywoodReporter