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A handful of Hollywood personalities took to Twitter on Monday to celebrate tech giants Apple, Facebook, and YouTube’s decision to purge radio host Alex Jones and his Infowars properties from their platforms.

Spotify has pulled multiple episodes of InfoWars host Alex Jones’s podcast for violating their rules on “hate speech,” the company has revealed.

84 percent of people surveyed underestimated how much they pay for streaming subscription services such as Amazon Prime, Spotify, and Netflix.

Hip-hop mega-couple Jay-Z and Beyoncé released a politically charged album over the weekend, in which the pair take turns torching President Donald Trump’s tweets, the NFL’s anthem fiasco, music streaming giant Spotify, the Grammys, and the police.

Music streaming service Spotify has announced a partnership with several far-left groups, including the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), in an attempt to police the platform and remove “hate content.”

Jay-Z’s Spotify and Apple Music competitor Tidal is reportedly “months behind” on payments to record labels.

Jay-Z’s Spotify rival Tidal has been accused of falsifying streaming numbers for the music of prominent artists on the platform, including Beyoncé and Kanye West.

Songwriters and publishers are set to receive increased royalties from Spotify, Apple Music, and other music streaming services, following a ruling.

Uber, Tinder, Snapchat, Twitter, and other top apps have allegedly been secretly tracking users, according to a report.

Popular music streaming service Spotify has removed a list of “hate bands” from the platform in response to the Charlottesville white supremacist rally last week.

Facebook’s Messenger application will now monitor users conversations and suggest music to listen to based on artists and bands that they mention while talking to other users.

Spotify has launched an artistic collaboration called “I’m with the banned,” in an effort to protest against President Trump’s travel ban, which was recently put back into effect after a previous court order against it was struck down.

Vice Media raised $450 million of pre-IPO capital at a $5.7 billion valuation from the same private equity firm that has interests in Airbnb and Spotify and owns the CAA talent agency.

Chris Bevington, an executive at Spotify, has been named as the British victim killed in Friday’s terror attack in Stockholm.

Despite 2016 being the worst year for initial public offerings (IPOs) since the 2007-8 financial crisis, Silicon Valley hopes the Trump rally will bring back the good times.

Album sales have hit their lowest point in the first half of this year since tracking began in 1991, as listeners increasingly use streaming services like Spotify and Pandora and video-sharing website like YouTube to get their music fix.

Music streaming service Spotify has implemented political censorship on its platform, marking another step in the transition of neutral online platforms to moral censors. It has begun with an easy target, white nationalist bands. Who could object to the censorship of white nationalists?

First Lady Michelle Obama is out with her first Spotify playlist, featuring female artists in celebration of the “International Day of the Girl.” The songs feature some questionable lyrics.

Some themes obviously reflect his current mood in his presidency including “Nothing Even Matters” by Lauryn Hill, and “The Best Is Yet To Come” by Frank Sinatra. After beginning with an inexplicably jazzy version of the Sound Of Music’s “My Favorite Things,” the playlist predictably moves into Beyonce territory with Superpower followed by Van Morrison’s “Moon Dance.”

Apple’s new streaming service, Apple Music, has reportedly drawn 11 million trial subscribers one month after its launch.

It doesn’t take a big-shot music executive or a statistician to see that the music industry is in a major period of upheaval.

John Mellencamp blasted the state of the music business at a UJA Federation of New York luncheon on Thursday—but reserved some kind words for Taylor Swift, who he said is the only one doing anything to save the music industry.

Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton formally launched her 2016 presidential bid Saturday on New York City’s Roosevelt Island; just hours after her campaign released its official Spotify playlist. Featuring female artists such as Ariana Grande, Kelly Clarkson, Katy Perry, Sara Bareilles

A raging debate is questioning Apple’s ability to succeed in the upcoming streaming music service that will be launched at their developer conference on Monday in San Francisco.

In March, the Jay Z-helmed music streaming service Tidal launched alongside some of the industry’s wealthiest stars at an event that quickly turned off scores of potential subscribers.

Last month, Jay-Z and a handful of some of the biggest names in music teamed up to launch Tidal, a new artist-owned streaming music service that would compete with household names like Pandora and Spotify. The concept seemed promising; a new

Rapper and businessman Jay Z was joined by some of music’s biggest stars on Monday for the official re-launch of TIDAL, the first-ever artist owned streaming service, which plans to compete with bigs Pandora and Spotify. Jay Z recently acquired

Is Taylor Swift the world’s greatest female leader? According to Fortune Magazine, T-Swift is more than just a pretty voice and face. The pop star is a powerful leader with the ability to change the world.

Digital music downloads plummeted in 2014, while streaming services like Spotify continued their steady growth, reports Financial Times.