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Russian Web site angers music industry (CNN.com) - MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- A Russian Web site that lets visitors download albums for less than $1 is a smash hit with music fans -- but not with U.S. trade and music industry officials.

Russian site enrages music industry (USA Today) - A Russian website that lets visitors download albums for less than $1 is a smash hit with music fans but not with U.S. trade and music industry officials.

Luxury industry's current explosion (FT.com via Yahoo! News) - It is an irony of the luxury industry's current explosion - global sales were an estimated EU135 billion last year up from EU80 billion in 2000 - that in its very success may lie the seeds of its undoing.

L.A. Loses TV Pilots, Industry Study Finds (ABC News) - L.A. Losing TV Pilot Production Business to Cities With Tax Incentives, Industry Study Finds

Rock Quarries Seen As Growth Industry (ABC News) - Rock Quarries Seen As Growth Industry That Has Not Drawn Much Environmental Controversy

M&A is the talk of the network industry (Market Watch) - WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- In the network-equipment industry these days, every vendor is involved in "the conversation."

Region's Tech Industry Booming: Index Reflects Hike in Investment, Prices of Stock in First Quarter. (RedNova) - By Clint Swett, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Jun. 2--Strengthened stock prices and a surge in investment funding helped propel a gauge of the region's technology industry up more than 9 percent in the first quarter of 2006.

58th IPC to have special session on pharma industry doyens' success stories (PharmaBiz) - The 58th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress to be held at Mumbai in December 2006 will have a special session on some of the leading industry heads in the country detailing their success stories and their plans for future business growth.

Pay-as-You-Live Insurance and Active Risk Management will help industry bridge to the future (Enterprise Networks and Servers) - The worldwide Insurance Industry will engage in a series of bold transformations over the next 15 years, creating a dramatically different set of products, services and business process, all in the name of value creation and long-term growth, according to a newly-released IBM global study.

Sugar industry enjoys quiet revival (INQ7money.net) - SUGAR is enjoying a revival in the Philippines, a traditional producer, a decade after the country saw output slump and was forced to rely on imports, an industry official said Friday.