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Taylor Swift’s latest album “Midnights” has dropped, and it might be setting a new standard for China’s digital music industry. Within a day of its release, the 13-track album, priced at 35 yuan, or $4.83, has racked up nearly 200,000 copies on Tencent’s QQ Music, one of the largest music streaming platforms in China. While […]

Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ is the priciest digital album Tencent has sold by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

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Daily Crunch: Amazon says OEMs won’t build their smart TVs due to ‘concern that Google would retaliate’ by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

Popular podcast platform Pocket Casts has released its mobile clients under an open source license. WordPress parent company Automattic acquired Pocket Casts last July, having been acquired by a group of public radio companies, including NPR, back in 2018. Pocket Casts is one of the most popular “podcatcher” apps outside the big tech ecosystems of […]

Podcast app Pocket Casts goes open source by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

Black startup founders raised just 0.12% of the $150.9 billion in venture dollars deployed in Q3.

Black startup founders raised just $187 million in the third quarter by Dominic-Madori Davis originally published on TechCrunch

Just as a customer pilots the product, companies should pilot their most important hires whenever possible.

3 ways to hire well for your startup by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch

Disney collaborated with Accelerator participant, Obsess, an e-commerce platform known for creating interactive virtual storefronts, to release a new web3 experience for its Disney Music Emporium online store. The 3D 360 virtual experience lets fans discover soundtracks and songs from popular Disney films and TV shows by clicking on various vinyl records and CDs throughout […]

Disney launches web3 experience to celebrate 100 years of Disney music by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch