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Well start this weeks travels through jobland in Scotland, with MSP Enlinea. Senior Technical Consultant, Edinburgh, Scotland Do you want to help manage the IT of SME and corporate clients across the UK working with market-leading cloud and on premise technologies? The role will be work from home with some requirement to visit client sites and attend technical meetings. We do also have a physical office in Scotland and it will be optional (post COVID) to work from there if preferred. We envisag...

Former Geffen Records president Neil Jacobson, who founded songwriter/producer management firm Hallwood Media in 2019, has formed a new special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) called The Music Acquisition Corporation. SPACs are shell companies that raise money in an initial public offering (IPO), then merge with a privately-held target company, making that target publicly-traded as a result. According to an SPAC S-1 prospectus, Jacobsons new company plans to raise $200 million through an i...

Ella Fitzgerald Elsewhere, Hipgnosis acquired 100% of Bob Rock’s producer rights for Metallica’s biggest album and Ingrooves has picked up a music distributor in South Africa. Downtown Neighbouring Rights, which was established last June, has struck a deal to represent the estate of Ella Fitzgerald for performance royalty collections outside the U.S. The deal covers Fitzgerald’s entire repertoire, including classics such as “Dream a Little Dream of Me”, “Cheek to Cheek“, “Into E...