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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...
...Apple’s 2014 purchase of Beats Electronics fed into Apple Music and the high margin Services segment of the company....
...The deal, which the companies announced with videos on Facebook and Instagram, covers both recorded music and songwriting through contracts with Warner Music and Warner/Chappell Music publishing....
...Facebook has struck a licensing deal with music publishing company Sony/ATV to pay songwriters when their music is used in videos on the social media platform, as well as on Instagram and Oculus....
...He said on Monday: “We could not imagine a better home or future for the service.” Apple is pushing further into news publishing just as Facebook is pulling back....
...“We could not imagine a better home or future for the service,” he said on Monday. Apple is pushing further into news publishing just as Facebook is pulling back....
...The pattern has been repeated in music, book publishing, and television and film, with labels, imprints and studios having to contend with powerful entrants such as Amazon and Netflix....
...Spotify, the music streaming service, plans to list existing private shares directly on NYSE as soon as the fourth quarter rather than doing a formal IPO....
...“If Brexit results in significantly higher costs for our business we would have to reconsider our position,” said Thomas Rabe, chief executive of the German TV, publishing and music group, who said that...
...Mr Lynton’s connection with the company came about through his wife Jamie, who contacted the Snapchat founder after watching her children use the service....
...SoundCloud has struck a European licensing deal with Sony/ATV, the music publishing group, as the Berlin-based digital streaming service beefs up its library to compete against Spotify and Apple Music....
...the market for premium VOD services in late March....
...Music streaming has passed digital downloads At least in revenues for Warner Music Group....
...Hike Direct, a service added to the group’s main app in October, uses WiFi Direct to allow users meeting one another to swap files such as music and video at high speeds without having to be online....
...However, music publishing continues to attract investment....
...The technology companies have realised that, like photo sharing and music apps, news can attract and retain users of their mobile services....
...Providing content to these news services could be damaging to the identity of News Corp’s individual titles, he suggests....
...Self-publishing has continued to expand, and publishing companies are still waiting to see whether subscription models — which are transforming the music industry — will catch on among readers....
...The service was meant to play a significant role in Sony’s development of music and video subscription services that would operate across a range of devices, from its PlayStation games consoles to Walkman...
...The Sun’s 100,000 digital subscribers can get Premier League highlights on their mobiles; the Times’ 350,000 digital subscribers also have free access to music service Spotify....
...Digital film and music streaming services are bursting into the mainstream. The same cannot be said for digital book subscription platforms....
...Apple is expected to announce its long-anticipated iRadio music streaming service at its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, after Sony’s recorded music arm and music publishing joint venture agreed...
...Dick Parsons, Mr Bewkes’s predecessor, offloaded Warner Music and Time Warner’s book publishing business....
...A spin-off of Time Inc, valued by analysts at $3.2bn to $4.2bn will test investor appetite for publishing assets....
...The veteran media executive, who was previously president of News Corp’s digital media group, is well known in the tight-knit media and marketing world....
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