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By TIMES WIRES
Published February 13, 2007

A 'MARTIAN' PREPARES TO LAND ON YOUTUBE

Digital Music Group Inc. agreed to make some of its television shows, including I Spy and My Favorite Martian, available to YouTube.com users. Digital Music will also let users incorporate certain musical recordings into video they generate and post on YouTube, Digital Music of Sacramento, Calif., said Monday. The company controls rights to about 4,000 hours of TV shows and 40,000 songs and distributes them to online retailers including Apple Inc.'s iTunes store and Napster Inc.

Macao casino tycoon fires back

Thousands of gamblers on Sunday jammed into a new casino owned by a local billionaire who is trying to fend off an invasion by Las Vegas tycoons who have been gobbling up market share in the booming Chinese territory of Macao. Many of the punters who crowded into the Grand Lisboa - shaped like a huge lotus flower covered in blinking lights - were big-betting mainland Chinese who helped push Macao past the Las Vegas Strip last year as the world's gaming center. The five-floor casino is owned by Hong Kong billionaire Stanley Ho, 85, who held a monopoly on gaming in Macau for four decades, until 2002. The former Portuguese enclave - two islands and a peninsula off China's southeastern coast - is the only place in China where casinos are legal. In the past four years, some of the biggest names from Las Vegas - Las Vegas Sands Corp.'s Sheldon Adelson, Wynn Resorts Ltd.'s Stephen Wynn and MGM Mirage Inc. - have been aggressively building casinos, luxury hotels and mega resorts in Macao.

Second chance for Trio - on the Web

With the introduction Monday of getTrio.com, the short-lived but well-loved cable television channel Trio completes its online comeback. Before Trio, which is owned by NBC Universal, stopped broadcasting in January 2006, it was home to original shows like Facetime with Kurt Andersen and Film Fanatic with Amy Sedaris. The new site will offer tips on things to see, buy and do around the world. Those offerings will change daily and will be presented with the same contemporary sensibility that the cable channel aspired to, according to Lauren Zalaznick, the president of Bravo, who was in charge of the Trio channel. The information will also be available on a mobile phone platform.

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