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NCAA, Ticketmaster win court victory over ticket lotteries

The Indiana Supreme Court gave the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Ticketmaster a victory late last week by ruling that the ticket lottery utilized for college basketball’s Final Four…

FanSnap adds eticket search ability

PRESS RELEASE: “FanSnap Adds eTickets Support, Helps Fans Find Immediately Available Tickets — Even Hours Before the Event” PALO ALTO, CA (Marketwire) April 22, 2011 – FanSnap®, the leading ticket…

Ticket Evolution avoids Amazon cloud computing issues

A major outage at Amazon’s northern Virginia cloud computing data center reportedly knocked dozens of Web sites offline today, April 21, but new ticket exchange Ticket Evolution was not affected,…

TicketsNow, FoxSports.com sign secondary ticketing deal

Ticketmaster’s secondary ticket resale division TicketsNow this week signed a ticketing deal with FoxSports.com, a move that would not have seemed possible just a year ago as executives from parent…

Live Nation executive leaves, forms new promotions firm

Dan Parise, a long-time entertainment industry executive, has left his post at Live Nation as vice president of special events to form Diversified Production Services (DPS), a new entertainment promotions…

Neil Patrick Harris, Sean Moriarty join Goldstar board

PRESS RELEASE: “Goldstar ANNOUNCES Strategic ADVISORY BOARD: Matt CoffIn, Neil Patrick Harris, Sean Moriarty” Altadena, CA (Goldstar) April 20, 2011 – Live entertainment business leader Goldstar announces today the first…