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Pop Quiz: Fun Facts from Inauguration Days Gone By

On Monday, President Obama will be inaugurated again, and an estimated 800,000 people will descend on Washington, D.C., for the occasion. To get yourself ready for the festivities, take this little quiz that features some high and low points from America's 57 inaugurations.

Live Nation Posts $124 Million Fourth-Quarter Loss

Slumping concert attendance and ticket sales pushed Live Nation Entertainment, a concert promoter that also owns Ticketmaster, into a fourth-quarter loss from a slight profit a year ago. The quarterly loss also exceeds the company's combined losses from the first nine months of 2010.

Ticketmaster's Former CEO Is Now a Competitor

Fredric Rosen, who led Ticketmaster for 15 years, is poised to go head-to-head against his old company as CEO of Outbox Enterprises, a company that flips Ticketmaster's centralized middleman model of ticket sales on its head.

Barry Diller Bows Out as Live Nation Chairman

Barry Diller announced his impending resignation as Live Nation chairman Tuesday, perhaps putting an end to his tussle with the rest of its board for control of the struggling concert promoter and talent agency nearly a year after its merger with Diller's Ticketmaster.

WiseGuys Gets Indicted, But Was It a True Scam?

Lawyers for three proprietors of California-based WiseGuys Tickets, indicted on dozens of counts of fraud and conspiracy this week, argue that the company's heavy-handed tactics of snapping up tickets isn't illegal.