• Live Nation has struck a five-year ticketing deal with New York's Roseland Ballroom, currently a Ticketmaster client. (Ticket News)

• Universal Music Group International has signed on with Qtrax. The deal covers Europe, Asia/Pacific, South America & Africa. (Press release)

• Ticketmaster, currently trading at only 5.4 times earnings per share, has struck a deal with Eventful.com to be the website's premier ticketing provider. Eventful.com, which has eight million registered users, just landed a $10 million investment by Telefónica Capital. (Billboard.biz and VentureBeat)

• Archeophone Records has released "Debate '08: Taft and Bryan Campaign on the Edison Phonograph," a collection of 22 speeches recorded by the two candidates in the 1908 presidential election. Each speech was originally released on a cylinder that allowed for two minutes of playback and cost $0.35. (Wall Street Journal, via Digital Audio Insider)

• The acquisition of Warner Music Group, five years later. (Portfolio.com)

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