• A report says Live Nation has emerged as a bidder for the Rolling Stones' post-1971 recordings but EMI has made a counteroffer. (Times Online)

• At SXSW, Moby talked about Moby Gratis, the site where he offers his music free to independent filmmakers and for non-commercial use. "I'm a little bit surprised by people's unwillingness to give stuff away for free. I have approached some other musicians, and they don't seem as enthusiastic about giving their music away for free." (Extended Play)

• For its 2008 Q3, entertainment distributor Handleman reported a $2.4 million profit on sales of $346.9 million. (Press release)

• Record execs says U.S. mobile carriers' percent of revenue is hurting the success of mobile music. (Digital Music News)

• eMusic has added the labels Kompakt, Constellation Records and IAMSOUND Records. (Hypebot)

• The AFL-CIO is in favor of performance rights for terrestrial radio. (Press release)

• A Q&A with iLike's Ali Partovi. "Music is a business that you need to really understand and focus on to make it work, and (Facebook's) business is phenomenal without getting into music." (AppScout)

• I like this Michael Stipe quote about why REM is going to preview its new album on iLike.com: "I think you can either go with it or sit back and watch it happen, and I would rather be out on the field than in the bleachers." (Times Online)

• CMT's "Gone Country" was the highest rated show in the channel's history. As the show's winner, Julio Iglesias Jr. will release a single produced by country star and show host John Rich. (Music Row)

• Famed venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki is one of the people behind recently launched Alltop, a very simple RSS aggregator that groups posts by topic. The music page has many of my daily reads. Simple, nothing fancy, insulting to programmers who could do it in five minutes, and maybe worth bookmarking.