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...It also may be music to the ears of Jonathan Kanter, head of the US Department of Justice’s antitrust unit. “There is no success greater for us than deterrence,” Kanter told a conference last month....
...News round-up Music business scrambles to contain fallout from Kanye West controversy (FT) Germany allows Chinese shipping group a stake in its biggest seaport (FT) European banks’ bumper quarter raises...
...Others, like the lawsuit that Wigdor filed this month against music mogul Sean Combs, are only glimpsed in public....
...The credit market hits a new beat Perhaps the most iconic quote of the financial crisis came from Chuck Prince, the then-chief executive of Citigroup....
...And the beat goes on. Until it can’t, because it’s all condos....
...More than 10 years ago, one of the hits at the show was an LG “watch phone”, complete with a music player and built-in camera for video conferencing....
...We are learning how to write the music, and then we let the music make them dance.”...
...Facebook v YouTube: contrasting approaches The music business has been intermittently at odds with technology platforms for decades, since digital piracy ravaged the sector’s traditional business model....
...Australian retailers outperformed the broader market on Thursday after retail sales figures November beat estimates....
...As Apple’s new TV team presses ahead, speculation has grown that Jimmy Iovine, the Beats co-founder who had been working to bring more entertainment video content such as Carpool Karaoke into Apple Music...
...Beats’ edgy cool clearly appealed to Apple as part of the 2014 deal, and it also wanted the brand to reinvent Apple’s digital music offering....
...Tad Hunter topped the US music charts with “Young Love” when the S&P 500 index was launched on March 4 1957....
...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....
...The first has 75m active users; the second has $200bn in the bank and, as it showed with its $3bn acquisition of Beats Music last year, it is committed to becoming the uncontested force in online music....
...At the same time, the company would be able to promote compatible headphones from its Beats subsidiary, which it acquired for $3bn in 2014 and formed the technical basis of its music subscription service...
...A music industry veteran, Mr Rogers ran streaming at Beats before the company was acquired by Apple. Before that, he ran Topspin, a music services start-up that helps artists interact with their fans....
...Beats Electronics launched its music service in January 2014; Apple purchased the company in August, valuing Beats Music at $500m. By December, Beats secured just 300,000 subscribers....
...Mr Rogers began his career working for the Beastie Boys and launched Topspin, a music services group that connects artists to their fans, before joining Beats....
...The price slide in after-hours trading was in spite of quarterly results that beat investor expectations. Members of the Nasdaq 100 are faring pretty well though....
...“Online music has become a complicated mess of apps, services and websites,” said Jimmy Iovine, the Beats co-founder who now works at Apple after its $3bn acquisition last year, as he launched the service...
...Not only was an expert in online music turning his back on a role at Apple — one that he had earlier called his “dream job” — he was also going against the flow of talent that has swept several senior luxury...
...Mr Iovine, the music industry veteran and former Beats chief executive who is running Apple Music, is a vocal opponent of free music....
...Thumping house beats typically greet riders as they begin a workout that will leave them drenched in sweat....
...Mr MacFarlane is optimistic that the growth in streaming music apps such as Spotify, which unveiled several new features last week, and Apple, which is expected to relaunch Beats Music as a new subscription...
...Jimmy Iovine, who alongside hip-hop star Dr Dre co-founded Beats, is an outspoken critic of free music services, arguing that they do not properly value recorded music....
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