Tencent Music Ordered to Unwind Exclusive Content Deals With Global Labels

told the Washington Times, “So our team said we’re not going to say that this is legitimate if we don’t have confidence in the information.”“The information” in question is, according to Lindell, 37 terabytes of “irrefutable” evidence that China-backed hackers broke into American election systems and switched votes from then-president Donald Trump to President Joe Biden in 2020. Lindell’s theory revolves around intercepted data of “packet captures” that prove a cyberattack.

Claudia Eller Co-Editor-in-ChiefAs many powerful figures with high-profile jobs could attest in recent years, past bad behavior has a way of coming back to haunt you in the #MeToo era. Just ask former New York Gov.

Major moment! Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino and Lauren Sorrentino enjoyed their first family beach day with son Romeo on Saturday, August 7.

Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to Last Night in Rozzie, a Boston-set drama starring Neil Brown Jr, Nicky Whelan, Jeremy Sisto and Kevin Chapman. Sean Gannet directed the pic, which will now get a day-and-date release beginning September 17.

Sad news for Fall Out Boy fans.

HONG KONG -- China’s biggest gaming company, Tencent Holdings, said Tuesday it will limit gaming time for minors and ban children under age 12 from making in-game purchases after a state media article called games “spiritual opium."Tencent’s pledge to curb gaming for minors came hours after the company’s stock plunged as much as 11% following a critique published by the Economic Information Daily, a newspaper affiliated with China’s official Xinhua News Agency.The newspaper article named

Prince Estate has sold a controlling stake in the rights to the late musician’s intellectual property.According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the three youngest of Prince’s six siblings have each agreed to sell their inheritance in the estate to New York independent music publisher and talent management company Primary Wave.The new report has revealed that Primary Wave, which also owns a music catalogue that includes Nirvana and Ray Charles, last month bought 100 per cent of Prince’s youngest

Mónica Marie Zorrilla César Millán, aka the “Dog Whisperer,” has hired Three Six Zero as his global management team. The Mexican American celebrity dog behaviorist, three-time Emmy nominee and New York Times bestselling author is one of the world’s most renowned authorities in the field of canine rehabilitation.

Bobby Shmurda has debuted some new music during his performance at this year’s Rolling Loud Miami festival.The rapper – whose real name is Ackquille Pollard – was freed from jail in New York back in February, after serving seven years behind bars for conspiracy and weapons possession.During his five-track set at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium on Friday (July 23), Shmurda performed fan favourites ‘Hot N***a’ and ‘Bobby Bitch’, as well as his verse from Rowdy Rebel’s ‘Computers’.The New York rapper

EXCLUSIVE: A pandemic read has led to a series order at Netflix. The streamer has greenlighted The Night Agent, a political conspiracy thriller series created by Shawn Ryan based on author Matthew Quirk’s 2019 New York Times bestseller. Seth Gordon is set to direct the first episode of the series, which comes from Sony Pictures Television Studios where Ryan and Gordon are under overall deals.

KISS, Bon Jovi, Rush and Mötley Crüe – has died at age 74.According to Billboard, Kahan died in Lakewood, New Jersey on Sunday (July 18) following a battle with cancer.The publication shared a brief statement from Kahan’s longtime friend Arthur Levy that read: “In his final years in Lakewood, Kahan never stopped theorising about country music’s gradual downsizing of its promo video output, and how he could work his way back into the fold.”A New York native born in 1947, Kahan cut his teeth

UPDATED, 7:39 PM: A judge has ordered Keith Raniere to pay $3.4 million to 21 individuals victimized by his NXIVM sex cult, according to a report in The New York Times.

Selome Hailu editorKeith Raneire, convicted sex-trafficker and leader of the NXIVM cult, has been ordered to pay $3.4 million to his victims. The New York Times reported that 21 victims will receive portions of the money, part of which will go towards procedures allowing women to remove Raniere’s branded initials from their skin.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorOak View Group — the venue-development, advisory, and investment company for the sports and live entertainment industries founded by Irving Azoff and Tim Lieweke — has announced a long-term partnership with Ticketmaster, the Live Nation-owned largest ticketing company in the world, covering six of OVG’s new arenas.

Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, and the Beatles.In a letter Monday to shareholders of his investment fund, Pershing Square, Ackman cited questions from the Securities and Exchange Commission about whether the structure of a special-purpose acquisition company would allow such an acquisition under the rules of the New York Stock Exchange.Vivendi SA last month confirmed that its Universal Music Group was in talks to sell a 10% stake to Pershing's special-purpose acquisition company, or

Tencent has announced plans to fully acquire British gaming studio Sumo Digital in a $1.27 billion deal, increasing its previous ownership stake of 8.75%.Previously the second-biggest shareholder of Sumo Digital, the Chinese tech giant has placed an offer representing a 43% premium on Sumo’s current valuation.