(UPDATED) Jay Scavo is joining Warner Brothers Records as SVP Digital Marketing from his current post at Disney Music.

• Bertelsmann, the German media and music publishing conglomerate, said Monday that its chief executive, Hartmut Ostrowski, would step down at the end of the year and be succeeded by Thomas Rabe, the current chief financial officer.
• Digital music retailer 7digital is expanding to the Asia-Pacific region with stores opening in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Singapore.

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