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...In the past five years, Sony has gone on an acquisition spree to expand its entertainment assets, buying EMI Music Publishing for $2.3bn and spending $1.2bn to acquire AT&T’s anime streaming service Crunchyroll...
...A senior IRGC commander killed in Syria, IRGC being the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps....
...He added that his right-hand man’s biggest contribution had been to “support growth investments”, citing how Totoki led the $2.3bn acquisition of EMI Music Publishing in 2018 and aggressive investments in...
...Barring any plot twists, Ratcliffe has triumphed over Qatari businessman Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad al-Thani, who declared he was out of the race this weekend....
...In the past three years, it has signed more than $5bn worth of deals, including buying EMI Music Publishing for $2.3bn and a proposed $1.2bn acquisition of AT&T’s anime streaming service Crunchyroll....
...That will be music to the private sector’s ears....
...Prominent tech investors have flocked to the kingdom, sometimes with personal invites from Yasir al-Rumayyan, governor of Saudi Arabia’s $620bn sovereign wealth fund....
...News Corp is in advanced talks to sell its 80 per cent share of Move, which operates property websites, to rival CoStar....
...In a tour de force for Scottish Ballet, however, choreographer Helen Pickett makes the case for translating Arthur Miller’s Salem-inspired The Crucible into dance — faux witches, Puritan paranoia et al....
...But by selling off just enough of EMI’s parts to placate regulators, Universal emerged with a market share of roughly 40 per cent, something no music company had enjoyed before....
...He hasn’t announced a blank-cheque deal since January, when his Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp V announced a tie-up with the digital lender SoFi....
...The Sound of the Hound (EMI Archive Trust) An illuminating new series on the history of recorded music in which the writer James Hall and music industry executive Dave Holley tell the stories of the pioneers...
...Such agreements aim to prevent what one investor called the “Terra Firma situation” in which Guy Hands’ buyout firm had more than 30 per cent exposure to the collapsed music label EMI....
...Josh Noble Rupert Murdoch News Corp founder Grigory Rodchenkov Whistleblower on Russian sport Mr Rodchenkov, star of the doping movie Icarus, was the mastermind turned whistleblower of Russia’s massive...
...Prices have soared — EMI was valued at $4.7bn in the deal Sony announced in May, more than double that of 2012....
...Sony has paid $2.3bn to beef up its music catalogue by buying more of EMI. That values the music publisher at more than twice the sum paid in 2012....
...Mr Yoshida said the acquisition of EMI would bolster Sony’s music offerings at a time of resurgence for the music business....
...The EMI deal would allow Sony not only to cement its position as the world’s largest music publisher but also to take advantage of the recovery in the industry driven by the expansion of music streaming...
...A day earlier, the group struck a $2.3bn deal to buy outright control of EMI Music Publishing, taking advantage of a recovery in the music industry driven by streaming services....
...For a decade, Hands has either raised money for a specific deal or used his own cash to fund deals following the failed takeover of EMI, the storied UK music company....
...A Sony-led consortium acquired EMI Music Publishing four years ago for $2.2bn; Sony/ATV manages EMI on an arms-length basis, a regulatory condition of the Sony group’s purchase....
...Guests included Michael Brecker on tenor sax and Al Di Meola on electric guitar....
...This was music to the ears of Gulf rulers, Arab autocrats such as Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the former army chief running Egypt, and Israel, resolute foe of the Islamic Republic....
...He also allegedly used 1MDB money to pay for Jynwel’s $106.6m stake in EMI Music Publishing as part of a Sony-led consortium....
...The Beatles’ recordings are controlled by Apple Corps, the band’s own management company, and music label EMI....
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