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Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online 2012 may be remembered as the Year of the Maps. This past year has been particularly filled with talk about maps, map applications, mapping data and who is using whose maps. Nokia has now continued this geographical narrative, announcing a sparkling new brand for their maps, offering it freely to the millions of Apple users and buying a 3D mapping company to augment said brand. During a press event yesterday in San Francisco,...
LOS ANGELES, April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Magnetic rappers and live performers, Wiz Khalifa and Mac Miller team-up for the Under the Influence of Music Tour with special guests Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q and Chevy Woods. The Live Nation produced tour is scheduled to begin on July 26th in Cincinnati, at the Riverbend Music Center, with additional dates and opening acts to be announced soon. Tickets go on sale to the public on April 20th at 4:20pm local time at Ticketmaster.com and...
SEYMOUR, Tenn., June 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Chartbuster Karaoke, one of the world's leading producers of licensed karaoke tracks, has announced a partnership with Rascal Flatts "Flatts Fest" Karaoke Challenge Presented by Starkey. Chartbuster Karaoke will tour the country alongside Flatts Fest 2011, which is an interactive pre-show festival with contests and activities throughout Rascal Flatts' summer concert tour. Chartbuster Karaoke will power the national competition from its...
New company will operate under name Here Media Inc. LOS ANGELES and SAN FRANCISCO, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Here Networks LLC announced today the completion of the business combination of Here Networks LLC and its publishing affiliate, which includes the LGBT publications The Advocate and Out, with PlanetOut Inc. (formerly-traded under the ticker symbol, LGBT). The new public company resulting from this business combination will be named Here Media Inc. with Stephen P. Jarchow serving as...
Overnight raid by HERE leadership imperils members' security NEW YORK, May 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Workers and retirees who witnessed the invasion of their union offices by agents of former HERE President John Wilhelm issued the following statements today: "I came to MY building, the UNITE HERE offices on 275 7th avenue this morning and found that followers of John Wilhelm who came in the dead of night are preventing the union from serving its retirees and members. When I visited I...
The BBC has issued an apology for British radio host Chris Moyles's recent joke about the Nazis' Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Unlike a lot of the 'Who Do You Think You Are? shows, I didn't go to Auschwitz ... pretty much everybody goes there, whether or not they're Jewish ... they always kind of end up there, you know, if they just pass through on their way to Florida or something, The Times of London quoted the 34-year-old disc jockey as telling listeners about his experience of...
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PlanetOut Inc. (Nasdaq: LGBT) announced today that its conference call to discuss its proposed business combination with Here Networks, LLC and Regent Entertainment Media Inc. to form Here Media Inc. has been rescheduled for Monday, January 26, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. PT. The dialing instructions for the call are: In the United States: 800-260-8140 Outside the U.S.: 617-614-3672...
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PlanetOut Inc. (Nasdaq: LGBT) announced today that it has signed a definitive merger agreement to combine with Here Networks LLC and Regent Entertainment Media Inc. PlanetOut serves the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, or LGBT, community through its websites, Gay.com and PlanetOut.com. Here Networks is a leading provider of programming services to cable and satellite television and internet platforms of movies, series, documentaries...
By MAL VINCENT By Mal Vincent The Virginian-Pilot "Frozen River" speaks to the desperation of those American citizens who probably couldn't afford the ticket to go see it. They may be down, but they're not out. Like the Joad family in "Grapes of Wrath," they will not be defeated because they're the "people" and they "just keep coming." It is a movie about money, but not wealth. More specifically, it is about desperation. When filming "Frozen River" in subzero cold in upstate New York...
By FRANK ROBERTS By Frank Roberts Correspondent VIRGINIA BEACH Here's one for the Guinness World Records of Country Music (if there were such a thing): The opening act Thursday at the Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach Amphitheater had a gold-record country single and two hit albums (including a platinum-seller), plus a new nomination for female vocalist of the year from the Country Music Association. Taylor Swift was the double-outstanding opening act for Rascal Flatts, which has one song...
