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<strong>YNOT</strong> – FriendFinder Networks Inc. on Thursday submitted a proposal to acquire Playboy Enterprises Inc. “in a transaction worth over $210 million of equity value.” The proposal follows by three days and ups by almost 14 percent Playboy founder Hugh Hefner’s Monday offer to take the company private in a deal valued at $185 million in cash.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – After 10 award-winning years in the adult entertainment industry, Ann Marie Rios has earned a reputation as an intense erotic performer. She’s decided to bring that presence to a personal website where fans can enjoy an up-close experience with the SoCal native.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – A federal appeals court in Manhattan on Tuesday tossed out the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s policy governing indecent speech on the public airwaves, ruling the commission’s rules “unconstitutionally vague.”

<strong>YNOT</strong> – So much for Apple co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs’ vow to keep adult content off the iPhone.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – A coalition of booksellers, internet content providers and free-speech advocates has sued the State of Massachusetts hoping to enjoin enforcement of a recent revision to the state’s obscenity law.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – Music industry giant Warner Music Group has filed a federal lawsuit against Reality Kings and its parent company, RK Netmedia Inc., alleging the internet pornography producer has infringed the copyright on dozens of recordings owned by Warner labels.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – Perpetual playboy Hugh Hefner is locked in a new kind of high-stakes game, the outcome of which could determine the fate of the 84-year-old Playboy magnate’s 57-year-old iconic brand.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – A new stock photography website offers titillating and provocative, royalty-free images, videos and vector graphics to the adult entertainment industry.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – After a trial that read more like chapters in a Mario Puzo novel than pages from real life, the underboss of a New York crime family stands convicted of racketeering for ordering the shakedown of Penthouse and Hustler strip clubs and a pizzeria in Manhattan.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – Fonedata LLC, a developer of mobile and billing applications based in Delaware and Southeast Asia, has launched an alternative billing solution for adult and non-adult premium content websites that collect traffic they cannot convert due to the ubiquitous “billing issues.” ExitBilling.com offers U.S. webmasters $4 per sign-up for referring users who abandon a purchase before completion or whose payment is declined by the referring website’s processor.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – Montreal-based Mad Blanket Pictures has launched a website devoted to the exploration of the line between pleasure and pain through self-spanking, self-scratching and self-flagellation.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – Experts estimate the mobile revenues will top $4 billion worldwide by the end of 2010, and PussyCash is determined neither it nor its webmasters will be left out of the revolution.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – A Harvard University study discovered men taking erectile dysfunction drugs were three times more likely than their non-medicated counterparts to contract a sexually transmitted disease. Researchers declined to blame the finding on a relationship between the drugs and disease, however, saying it’s more likely ED drug users are predisposed to risky sexual behaviors for psychosocial reasons.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – October 2009 <i>Penthouse</i> Pet Ryan Keely will present the first-ever Porn Star Sex Life seminar in New York on Saturday. Scheduled to take place at the Velour Lounge, the seminar is expected to become a traveling event that shows up in various spots across the country, and affiliates can cash in on Keely’s popularity if they help her promote her expertise.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – A Catholic priest who was adored by his parishioners partly because he lived an exemplary — and Spartan — life has been arrested for embezzling about $1.3 million from his poor Connecticut parish. According to police investigators, the Rev. Kevin J. Gray spent the money over seven years on a lavish secret life that included male escorts, strip clubs, fancy restaurants, posh hotels and expensive clothing.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – The parent company of the eXXXotica adult consumer shows has sued the corporate parent of rival show Adultcon, claiming the latter is holding 19 domain names in violation of federal cybersquatting and trademark laws.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – YouTube giveth, and YouTube taketh away — sometimes with help from hackers.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – For the first time in its 28-year history, Homegrown Video is sponsoring a contest that will award cash and erotic notoriety to the couple or group that submits the hottest real sex video.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – Health officials in Miami-Dade County, Fla., last week said they will investigate a complaint alleging the adult movie industry’s refusal to require condoms on all sets violates state laws aimed at restricting the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – In a decision that may have implications for web-based businesses of all kinds, a federal appellate court has rendered a split decision in the ongoing case pitting gay adult studio Flava Works Inc. against the City of Miami. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a federal district court’s ruling, ultimately deciding CocoDorm.com, which exists as a commercial entity only in cyberspace, nonetheless constitutes a business under Miami’s zoning code and therefore can be forced to relocate outside a residential neighborhood.