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Bollywood stars and industry leaders splash money on Twenty-20 league teams (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News) - MUMBAI, India - Bollywood film stars and industry leaders paid hundreds of millions of dollars Thursday to buy cricket teams in the upcoming Twenty-20 Indian Premier League.

Music industry steps up search for digital revenue (International Herald Tribune) - Digital music represented 15 percent of overall industry sales last year, up from less than 1 percent in 2003 and 11 percent in 2006, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.

Ordinance requiring event industry to hire MAST crews raises concerns (The Kansas City Star) - City officials Thursday agreed to work with the event industry to blunt the impact of an ordinance granting Kansas City’s MAST ambulances a virtual monopoly to work large public events.

Steel Industry Examined in Wall Street Transcript Steel Report (Wall Street Transcript via Yahoo! Finance) - 67 WALL STREET, New York - January 24, 2008 - The Wall Street Transcript has just published its Steel issue, a report offering a timely review of the sector to serious investors and industry executives. This 31-page feature contains industry commentary through in-depth interviews with top management from 2 firms and 4 analysts. The full issue is available by calling (212) 952-7433 or via ...

Province gives $300K boost to digital gaming industry (CBC Manitoba) - The Manitoba government is pumping $300,000 into a video game incubator in an attempt to help develop what it calls the industry of the future.

Newspaper industry reports 6 percent growth in online users in 2007 (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) - U.S. newspapers' online audiences grew about 6 percent last year, an industry group reported Thursday, a rare bit of good news for an industry struggling to adapt as readers and advertising dollars continue to migrate online.

Sales fall spells gloom for music industry (Financial Times) - The music industry faced more bleak news on Thursday as officials figures showed that revenues from all recorded music shrank 10 per cent last year.

Lawmakers Entice Movie Industry To Bay State (WBZ Boston) - Massachusetts is having great success in luring producers here with lucrative tax credits as lawmakers try to entice the industry executives into making the Bay State Hollywood East.

The industry’s 2008 predictions (telecomasia.net) - We analysts love sharing our opinions and the start of a New Year is always an opportune time to try our hands at clairvoyance, where we gaze into the wireless industry crystal ball teasing out any indication of the developments which will occur over the coming 12 months.

More flat notes for French music industry: sales down 17 pct (AFP via Yahoo! News) - Sales of music recordings to retail outlets registered an around 17 percent pre-tax fall in France in 2007, "a rotten year" for the industry, record producers said Wednesday.