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...After joining YouTube in 2016, Cohen sought to mend the relationship with the large music labels — Universal Music, Sony and Warner — touting a new service to “make them rich”, according to executives involved...
...Companies The new year brings a changing of the guard at several major companies....
...The firm helped J&J create a limited liability company in Texas, forming the subsidiary that would take on the baby talc claims....
...Pershing Square will now acquire a $2bn stake in Universal, the music group with the option to buy the remaining half before September....
...(Wall Street Journal) News round-up Universal Music buys Bob Dylan’s music catalogue in ‘9-figure deal’ (FT + Lex) Bill Foley-backed Spac agrees $9bn deal to buy Paysafe (FT) Moncler to buy Stone Island...
...Shares in Apollo tumbled when the FT broke the news on Wednesday of PSERS’ decision, though they recovered a bit by the end of the New York trading day. Why?...
...Last month it hosted a lavish premiere at New York’s Lincoln Center for The Morning Show, starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon....
...After a years-long stand-off with the big music companies, YouTube struck fresh licensing agreements last year. Music executives are cautiously optimistic....
...Spotify, which has been credited with reviving revenues and bringing the music business into a digital future, last week filed to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange, with a market debut expected...
...With Mixcloud also in negotiations with Universal Music and Sony Music, pricing and the details of the subscription product are still being worked out....
...Jay Z, to lead a charm offensive....
...Warner Music had resisted adding its content to Vevo — the music platform partly owned by rivals Universal Music and Sony that draws nearly 20bn music video views a month — instead opting to partner with...
...The fundraising comes as the company, majority-owned by Universal Music Group and Sony Music, is developing a paid subscription service....
...Spotify is considering changing its tune on unfettered access to free music for users of its streaming service, as a concession to record labels in a tough new round of licensing negotiations....
...Proposed tweaks to the limited liability that YouTube and other video hosting websites enjoy for rights breaches are also aimed at improving rights holders’ terms....
...The new rivalry between California’s Dr Dre and Apple and New York-based Jay Z echoes a 1990s feud between hip-hop acts from the east and west coasts of the US....
...Universal Music Group, the world’s largest music company, is also in dispute with Spotify and is pressing the Swedish company to modify the free service — perhaps by capping the amount of time it can be...
...Jay-Z, the leading hip-hop star, is also set to enter the market, having acquired Aspiro, a Swedish music streaming group, and is set to use his clout and connections — his RocNation company represents acts...
...Spotify is also under pressure from Universal Music, the world’s largest record company, to limit the free, advertising-supported tier of its service and push more people into paid subscriptions....
...Last Monday, Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of internet services, stood before a crowd of software developers in San Francisco to reveal Apple Music, the company’s new music-streaming service....
...Universal Music Group, the world’s largest music company, is also in dispute with Spotify and is pressing the Swedish company to modify its free service — perhaps by capping the amount of time it can be...
...And a few days ago Jay-Z offered $56m for Aspiro, a Swedish music streaming company. The cliché of the music business is that of the exploited artist....
...Which two New York-based musicians took the music world by surprise with unexpected albums this year, one announcing it on their birthday, the other releasing it the week after their partner’s birthday?...
...the Tony Awards in New York this weekend)....
...And in emerging markets, where profitable online business models take time to develop, big companies are still exposed to lost revenues to the tune of billions each year....
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