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MLC vs. Spotify bundle battle intensifies as streamer opposes immediate appeal
Mechanical Licensing Collective is seeking an immediate appeal of a court ruling in its legal battle with Spotify over audiobook bundling Source...

What Physical Bottlenecks Mean for E-commerce Sales Goals
Ever had a cart full of items online, hit “place order,” and then found yourself refreshing a tracking page like it owed you an explanation? Delays, backorders, warehouse mix-ups—they’re all p...

TikTok splits US workforce as ByteDance retains control of key operations (report)
Some US staff received notices last week that they won't join the new joint venture led by Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX, Business Insider reported. Source...

Merlin appoints 2026–2027 Board, adding five new global representatives
New execs join Board from Nigeria, Portugal, Japan, Germany and the UK Source...

Sony Music Publishing acquires Big Yellow Dog Music
Company was founded in 1998 by Kerry O’Neil and Carla Wallace and based in Nashville Source...

Hannah Poferl appointed Chief Data Officer at Universal Music Group
Poferl comes to UMG from The New York Times, where she headed the newspaper's data operations Source...

BTS World Tour: The ‘biggest global K-pop tour of all time’ to span 79 shows across 34 regions
The Live Nation-promoted tour will feature a 360-degree, in-the-round stage design. Source...

Rostrum Pacific inks direct deals with Spotify, TikTok; appoints Samantha Moore to lead new distro platform SpaceHeater
SpaceHeater will operate through direct relationships with Amazon and Tidal, along with other major digital storefronts. Source...

Musical AI raises $4.5m to scale AI attribution tech
The startup’s technology identifies what percentage of a generated output came from which source. Source...

How to Block LLM Bots from Scraping Ad Inventory in 2026
In the rapidly shifting landscape of 2026, publishers and advertisers are facing a new existential threat: the “Great Decoupling.”. Large Language Model (LLM) bots are no longer just indexing the ...

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