Tidal is investing in direct artist payments, a step toward fair streaming payouts

Tidal and DistroKid, a popular independent music distributor, teamed up last week to introduce a direct artist payments system. This partnership foreshadows a larger pivot from Tidal toward experimenting... Read more »

UK-based mental health provider ieso raises $53M armed with an ‘unprecedented’ data set

UK-based digital therapy company ieso announced a $53 million Series B round on Tuesday. The round is the funding the company needs to move in a brand new direction:... Read more »

StepZen’s API management vision begins to take shape with free GraphQL tools

StepZen stepped onto the scene at the end of last year with an $8 million seed round and a vision for unifying APIs. Today that vision came into clearer... Read more »

Anonymity has always been part of the internet, but Facebook wants us to use our real names in the m (insider@insider.com (Drew Austin)/Insider: Tech)

insider@insider.com (Drew Austin) / Insider: TechAnonymity has always been part of the internet, but Facebook wants us to use our real names in the m – Anonymous accounts have... Read more »

EU Lawmakers Pass Strict New Rules Affecting Big US Tech (Slashdot)

SlashdotEU Lawmakers Pass Strict New Rules Affecting Big US Tech – The lead committee in the European Parliament writing new tech rules passed measures Tuesday that could impact major... Read more »

Spotify debuts a ‘Netflix Hub’ featuring music and podcasts tied to Netflix shows and movies

Looking for the soundtrack from your favorite Netflix show? Now, it will be easier to find thanks to an expanded partnership between Netflix and Spotify. The streaming music service... Read more »

Verbit lands $250M Series E at a $2B valuation to expand its AI-powered transcription platform

Less than six months after raising a $157 million Series D round, AI-powered transcription and captioning platform Verbit announced today it has closed $250 million in a Series E... Read more »

Suborbital raises $1.6M for its WebAssembly platform

Suborbital, the company behind the open source Atmo WebAssembly-centric project for building scalable server applications, today announced that it has raised a $1.6 million seed round led by Amplify... Read more »

India plans law that will prohibit ‘all private cryptocurrencies’ with ‘certain exceptions’

India plans to introduce, evaluate, and enforce a bill to prohibit “all private cryptocurrencies” in the country, according to a legislative agenda for the winter session. The Indian government... Read more »

Xiaomis stumble allows Apple to reclaim No.2 spot in smartphones (CNN – Business)

CNN – BusinessXiaomis stumble allows Apple to reclaim No.2 spot in smartphones – Hong Kong (CNN Business)Xiaomi stumbled in the third quarter as it grappled with fallout from the... Read more »
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