As part of Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr.‘s efforts to expand its mobile reach beyond iTunes, the company is partnering with iPhone and iPod touch gamer Tapulous to promote and sell its artists’ songs. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. The agreement follows a similar deal…

Last quarter, Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr scolded Apple for introducing variable track pricing too late and eagerly predicted a new wave of subscription digital music services “dwarving” the iTunes Store on which labels depend so much. This quarter, he’s full of praise for Cupertino, ahead…

Some encouragement at Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG), as digital sales have now hit 30.1 percent of total income - but this may also be contributing to an overall sales dip... In WMG’s January-to-March Q2, at constant currencies, digital revenue grew strongly by 11.8 percent from last year‘s period, to…

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q110	Net Inc. vs Q110
WMG	Release	N/A	1%	N/A

* vs. Analysts' Estimates: Beat Met Missed

David Dorn doesn’t flinch when the C word—“cheesy”—comes up during an interview about Rhino Entertainment. He embraces it, talking about the two extremes of the Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) catalog division—a “really great sense of humor” that can result in something like Golden Throats, the series of compilations featuring…

Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. couldn’t have made it more clear - the music industry wants to ween itself off its Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) dependency, and it will get do just that when iTunes comes under massive competition pressure from new unlimited and mobile services… “Digital…

Forget the last 10 years of post-Napster industry annihilation - Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) is now seeing growing income from both music sales and music publishing - but only if you factor in overseas sales; the U.S. business is still in rewind... —Music sales: October-to-December recorded-music income was 3.4…

		EPS*	Rev. vs QQ409	Net Inc. vs QQ409
Warner Music Group	Release		3.5%	N/A

* vs. Analysts' Estimates: Beat Met Missed

When we last checked in with *Cisco* Eos, the white label social network platform was still a one-chord band of sorts, with Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) as its only customer and a relatively small one at that. WMG’s expansion in August took its Eos use from two artists to…

This time, the Warner Music Group-YouTube deal really is done—although the two sides have a lot of details to still work out. A source familiar with the situation tells paidContent plans call for a WMG area on YouTube with an enhanced player and artist-branded channels. Yet to be determined: whether…

Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) signed on for the Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) Eos white-label social networking service in a dip-the-toe way in January. Now the label is putting the whole foot in the water by expanding its deal beyond sites for two artists to five, promising to add a dozen…

While Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) certainly has been trying to make headway as music listening becomes more digital, it couldn’t fight the wider economy and the downward spiral of physical record sales. The company’s loss widened to $37 million ($0.25 per share) from $9 million ($0.06 cents per share)…