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Financial giant Goldman Sachs’ bullish music industry forecasts have sparked questions in the past about potential conflicts of interest in its work for and/or ownership of shares in companies including Vivendi and Spotify. It’s...

At our NY:LON Connect conference in January this year, Dot Blockchain boss Benji Rogers caused a stir by making the confident prediction that “we’ll be at $100bn a year as an industry in two years” – albeit with the...

With Spotify having raised $100m in 2012, then $250m in 2013, an IPO has been widely expected as the streaming service’s next step. The company may be buying itself more time before going public, though: the Wall Street...

The headline of Bloomberg’s report on Vevo possibly hiring Goldman Sachs suggests it’s exploring a “sale”, while the quotes from CEO Rio Caraeff suggest more of a traditional investment for expansion....

The buzz on the blogs and financial sites overnight is that Spotify has closed its long-awaited $100m funding round, which would value the company at $3bn.

Apple CEO Tim Cook made a keynote speech at a conference organised by Goldman Sachs yesterday - a rare appearance by an Apple exec at another company's event.

Apple CEO Tim Cook made a keynote speech at a conference organised by Goldman Sachs yesterday - a rare appearance by an Apple exec at another company's event.

This has come out of the blue, but reports in the Financial Times and New York Times both suggest that Warner Music Group may be considering selling part or all of its business.