Sony BMG Music Entertainment has struck a licensing deal with Yahoo Inc., which will allow people to upload files with music or video content by Sony BMG's artists to Yahoo, according to the companies Tuesday.

Financial terms of the deal were not revealed. According to Yahoo, the agreement calls for Sony BMG to receive a cut of the ad revenue.

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A Chinese journalist who was imprisoned for alerting the public to an outbreak of dengue fever before the authorities has been awarded the 2008 Golden Pen of Freedom, the World Association of Newspapers' announced today.

Li Changqing, a reporter and deputy news director of the Fuzhou Daily in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, was detained without charges for nearly a year, then sentenced to three years in prison in January 2006 for “fabricating and spreading false information.”

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The Moscow Times has launched its mobile version, allowing readers to access the newspaper's latest information via their mobile phones.

Users can also update their mobile client, allowing them to read the news from the English-language newspaper without a network connection.

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One of the top property classified sites Realestate.com.au is aggressively moving into online real estate markets in Asia, launching two new sites in Hong Kong and Dubai, The Australian reported Wednesday.

The company's objective is to “become number one or number two” in every market it operates in, Chief Executive Simon Baker told the company's annual general meeting, according to The Australian.

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Spain’s Vocento SA will focus on its press and Internet businesses in the country, intending to become a leading player in the free press segment until 2010, according to CEO Belarmino Garcia.

The media group is also “open to selective international expansion,” Garcia added in a presentation on the restructuring of the group to the investment community.

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The reduction of newspaper circulation figures in Zimbabwe are due to newsprint shortages, load-shedding and a delay in considering price review applications by the National Incomes and Pricing Commission (NIPC), a Herald article posted on AllAfrica.com today stated.

Representatives of the country's newspaper industry presented their findings to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport and Communications, chaired by Makonde Member of Parliament Cde Leo Mugabe. They told the committee that the issue of pricing must be seriously considered if the industry is to be viable.

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AT&T plans to buy online ad company Ingenio for an undisclosed sum, a move to vie against Google and other online advertisement leaders.

Ingenio's technology is meant to evaluate the effectiveness of advertisements by tracking phone calls made to businesses based on phone numbers in ads, including online, on mobile phone Web sites, and in print. The technology provides the phone numbers and tracks the calls, and advertisers pay based on the volume of calls generated by the ads.

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paidContent's Joseph Weisenthal got a chance to use Amazon's Kindle Reader, unveiled today, at the product's launch Monday.

“Although Amazon’s been working on this for awhile, this is very much a first-generation product,” Weisenthal wrote. “It’s not going to revolutionize the industry overnight, though it sounds like Amazon is going to take this business seriously and continue to invest in it. It seems safe to guess that in a couple years, the top-of-the-line Kindle will be a much-improved product.”

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