The publisher of Playboy magazine announced Monday that it agreed to founder Hugh Hefner and Icon Acquisition Holdings taking the company private. "The price of $6.15 a share is an 18 percent premium over Friday’s closing price and values the company at about $207 million," reports CBS Local. more ›

Capping off four days of panels at SXSW's 2008 Film Festival, (which also included Mark Cuban interviewing Michael Eisner, and a conversation with Billy Bob Thornton), Doreen Ringer Ross of BMI interviewed Moby. The meat of the interview is posted above and concerns Moby's take on licensing music for film (and the concept of mobygratis) as well as a look at his unlikely rise from a punker on Manhattan's lower-east side to a corporate party-playing DJ to a world-renown commercial artist. more ›