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Media and entertainment conglomerate Time Warner says its first-quarter profit rose 10%, helped by an encouraging increase in advertising revenue and strong home video sales.

DVD sales have been falling so sharply that some movie industry watchers see extinction around the corner for the format. But in less than a week, Avatar discs have rung up huge numbers. Is this a sign that DVDs will survive, or just James Cameron-generated fluke?

The latest victim in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's financial melodrama is 007. The 23rd James Bond film, scheduled for release in 2011 or 2012, has been "indefinitely" postponed as a result of MGM's precarious financial position.

Counterfeit products such as fake watches and bootleg DVDs may have some unintended economic benefits, according to a new government report. Consumers use bootleg copies of CDs, movies and video games to sample goods, and if they like what they've tried, they purchase the real thing.

Talk about an odd plot twist: Big-budget film director brothers Tony and Sir Ridley Scott have emerged as possible bidders for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the beleaguered studio which has been shopped around since late last year.

Do you remember that 28-day waiting period on renting new Warner Bros. movies that Netflix and Redbox agreed to in February? We weren't fans of the deal then, and now Blockbuster has announced a deal with Warner Bros. to give it exclusive rental rights to Warner Bros. DVDs during that 28-day...

The next cable bill that comes in your mail could contain a belated bad start to 2010 in the form of higher prices. Not only are new offerings, like 3-D programming, on the way later this year but networks in general want more money for their programming. Fox, for example, threatened to pull its...

What media-industry developments and market forces will make headlines in the year to come? Pay-to-read online content, tablet computers, mom-and-pop newsrooms and, oh yes -- banks taking over the magazine and newspaper game.

Perhaps we were doomed from the start. In a decade that we never knew how to name -- the aughts? the naughts? the zeros? -- tortured words and phrases in business communication blossomed. Here's a run-through of the bottom of the buzzword barrel.

Late last month, Somali brigands in a dinghy hijacked the Maran Centaurus, an American-bound tanker carrying millions of barrels of crude oil, in the latest episode of escalating pirate attacks off the coast of the failed, anarchic East African state. But that event won't come up at Tuesday...