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Musician Taylor Swift celebrated a recent win with buying back her old albums previously owned outside of her control. With the new ownership, streams of old Swift songs have soared, helping boost traffic for Spotify Technology (NYSE:SPOT). What Happened: Swift fans are celebrating the news that...

Taylor Swift has officially bought back the master recordings of her first six albums, marking the end of a bitter and public battle over the rights to her music. What Happened: In a heartfelt statement posted to her website, Swift wrote, "I've been bursting into tears of joy at random intervals...

Global superstar Taylor Swift has been increasingly in the spotlight over the last two years with a record-breaking tour and record-breaking concert film. A new docuseries about Swift is coming to a streaming platform, but fans may not love hearing the details. What Happened: The docuseries will...

Taylor Swift has revealed that her Grammy-award-winning album “1989” will be re-released as a part of her “Taylor’s Version” series, reports USA Today. Swift announced the upcoming release during the final show of the first leg of her “Eras tour”...

Cannabis company Parallel, led by chewing gum heir William "Beau" Wrigley Jr. and Ceres Acquisition Corp. (OTCQX: CERAF), a special purpose acquisition corporation, have mutually ended their billion-dollar merger deal after months of negotiations. The two companies terminated...

Berlin-headquartered cannabis company Sanity Group confirmed Tuesday it has completed a $44.2 million Series A financing round led by Swiss venture capital firm Redalpine, US-based Navy Capital and SOJE Capital. The round was also supported by GMPVC.  According to Sanity Group,...

The saga involving pop star Taylor Swift and the ownership of her music library took another turn this week when music mogul Scooter Braun sold Swift’s catalogue to private equity firm Shamrock Holdings for more than $300 million. What Happened: Last year, Braun’s Ithaca Holdings...

Berlin-based cannabis startup Sanity Group announced Monday the closing of a $22 million Series A funding round, with investments from entertainment mogul Scooter Braun, Berlin’s Cherry Ventures, and a personal investment from Snoop Dogg’s money man, Karan Wadhera of Casa Verde Capital...

Later this month, the American Music Awards will honor Taylor Swift with the Artist of the Decade Award. But for all her achievements over the last 10 years, she'll have little to show for it. Swift had planned a medley to showcase her musical evolution, but the owners of her master recordings...

The SALT conference is a gathering of the most well-known executives in finance, policy, economics and beyond. As executive editor of Recode, the host of Recode Decode Podcast and co-executive producer of the Code Conference, SALT moderator Kara Swisher knows all about hosting content. On...

Want to be a full-time gamer? Detroit is the best place to make it in competitive gaming according to a new study. To be considered a full-time gamer, one needs to make an average of $69,119 per year and have 1,920 followers on Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)'s's Twitch, according to Value...

100 Thieves, a top esports company, has announced the completion of a Series A funding round, according to Forbes. What Happened The Series A funding round for 100 Thieves — one of the fastest-growing brands in the esports industry — now has $25 million in funding after the...