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Apple Music expands Chinese music reservoir via Tencent deal
Apple Music users around the world will soon have access to more Chinese musicians. Tencent Music Entertainment, the online music subsidiary of Tencent, said Tuesday that “record labels and arti
Rapchat tunes into $2.3M as its music-making app hits 7M users
YouTube, Snapchat, Twitter, TikTok and Facebook’s Instagram have upended the film and TV industries, with a new wave of cinematographers, directors and actors leveraging innovations in technolog
Tencent Music now has joint labels with all ‘big three’ record labels
The music streaming arm of Tencent is further tightening its ties with the “big three” record label companies, its major licensing partners. Tencent Music Entertainment announced Tuesday t
Maestro nets $15 million for its interactive commerce, community and engagement tools for livestreams
Making money on livestreams has never been easier thanks to a suite of tools from the Los Angeles-based startup Maestro, which just nabbed $15 million in financing to grow its business. As video comme
Spotify needs to crack down on labels snatching user data
Spotify seems to have learned little from the Facebook developer platform’s scandals despite getting a huge boost from the social network in its early days. Spotify has been caught allowing reco
Spotify rival Tencent Music posts maiden quarter loss of $130M on one-off costs
Tencent Music Entertainment Group, the Chinese answer to Spotify that Tencent spun out and floated on the New York Stock Exchange in December, reported a net loss of 876 million yuan ($127 million) in
Chinese Internet Giant Tencent And Sony Music Entertainment Sign Distribution Partnership
Just one month <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2014/11/13/warner-music-group-and-tencent/">after striking a distribution partnership with Warner Music Group</a>, Tencent, one of China’s biggest Inte
Middle Eastern Media Giant Backs Upcoming Music Video Site VEVO
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/vevo-logo-215x70.png" width="215" height="70" /><a href="http://vevo.com/">VEVO</a>, the YouTube-powered "Hulu for music videos" which to date