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...Sony said it would consider spinning off and relisting shares of its financial services arm to bolster investments in its entertainment business, delighting investors with a U-turn in strategy....
...“I think there should be an inherent value placed on art,” said Taylor Swift, after pulling her entire catalog from Spotify last year in advance of the release of her album 1989....
...The Old Vinyl Factory in Hayes, Middlesex, was once the home of music companies EMI and HMV, employing 22,000 people in its 1960s heyday....
...As the former chief executive of EMI, the home of The Beatles, Mr Faxon is better placed than most to judge the Napster analogy....
...implement a deep cost-cutting programme across his titles that could see more than £5 million taken out of the cost base - Universal Music faces an extended probe into its planned $1.9 billion bid for EMI...
...This forced Mr Buckles into a humbling U-turn on his drive to create the world’s second-biggest private sector employer with 1.2m staff, equivalent to the population of Bahrain....
...transformational’ oil along the South American coastline - Colfax to table bid for Charter International - Lufthansa names Sorensen BMI Chairman as the German flag-carrier considers a sale of its struggling U.K...
...But it’s not tomorrow,” Ernesto Schmitt, EMI’s global catalog president, told the FT’s Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson....
...Separately, EMI music group saw its CDS spread widen by 5bp to 110bp, amid continued speculation that the group could become part of an acquisition battle....
...The new identity gets a bit more interesting, though, if you read it as a text message: Reg, U Sex Press....
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