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WIPO's Daren Tang

Daren Tang, the Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has been elected by the WIPO Coordination Committee for a second six-year term. Tang was first elected by WIPO’s 83-member Coordination Committee in March 2020 from a list of six candidates. He previously served as the Chief Executive of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS). This time, The Coordination Committee, held one round of voting from a list of two candidates...

These are some of the music deals announced in the past weeks:

Jonny Pierce

Independent music company Bella Figura Music has acquired the publishing catalogue of Jonny Pierce, the songwriter, vocalist and creative force behind US rock band The Drums. Financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed. The acquisition covers Pierce’s publishing interests in songs written for The Drums covering releases up to and including ‘Encyclopedia’, released in 2014. The deal includes material fr...

$716.9 billion That's Amazon's revenue for 2025, up 12% compared with $638.0 billion in 2024. Revenue from Amazon's cloud operations AWS increased 20% year-over-year to $128.7bn. $500 billion That's how much Alphabet, Meta, Amazon and Microsoft are expected to spend on AI in 2026, according to Reuters. Alphabet alone could spend up to $175-185bn in capital expenditure this year. $380 billion That's Anthropic's valuation after the AI start-up, parent of chatbot Claude, closed a $30 billion fund-r...