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Warner Music COO, Armin Zerza: Music is under-monetized, under-digitized, and ripe for ‘years of productivity’

When Warner Music Group hired Armin Zerza as CFO in May 2025, the company was recruiting from a different universe.Zerza had spent a...

The SpaceX IPO is a referendum on Elon Musk and his plan to colonize Mars

Good morning. How much faith do you put in Elon Musk? If you can’t wait to get a piece of SpaceX after studying...

Spotify extends ‘Verified’ badges to podcasts, further cracking down on AI impersonators

Spotify is expanding its Verified by Spotify badge program to podcasts.The move, announced on Tuesday (May 19), extends to podcast shows the same...

As ABS deals reshape the music rights landscape, KBRA says it’s rated $12.9B in music royalty-backed bonds since 2020 – but expects issuance to...

When David Bowie raised $55 million by securitizing royalties from his back catalog in 1997, the concept was treated as a curiosity.Nearly three decades on, credit rating...

President Trump interview: An hour in the Oval Office with the CEO-in-Chief

President Trump can’t believe Jensen Huang doesn’t own his own plane. Hours before he departs for his highly anticipated China summit, the president has...

Russ honored with NMPA Gold & Platinum Recognition celebrating 26 certified songs

Singer-songwriter and rapper Russ has been honored with a National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) Gold & Platinum Recognition plaque celebrating his songwriting achievements...

How Trump’s ‘unusual’ brokerage account traded around his own market-moving decisions

On Feb. 10, an AI founder named Matt Shumer published a 5,000-word essay arguing that most of the world was sleepwalking into a...

Peter Thiel is leading investment in a reportedly $1 billion wave-powered ocean data center project

As hyperscalers like Alphabet look to the skies as the next frontier of data centers, Peter Thiel is looking to the seas.  Panthalassa, a...

‘Ocean Dream’ diamond, largest blue-green stone of its kind in the world, sells for $17.3 million

A 5.5-carat triangular-cut diamond billed as the largest fancy vivid blue-green diamond known to exist sold for more than 13.5 million Swiss francs...

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