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TIDAL's new owner, Jack Dorsey's Block, is building a Cash App equivalent for emerging artists as the company aims to provide them financial services.

Billboard's 2023 Top Business Managers list is revealed, highlighting some of the savviest advisors that artists and execs rely upon in their careers.

Among the week's music industry promotions and hirings were at GoodTalk, Dick Clark Productions, HeadCount, Mom+Pop, Abramorama and more.

Fintech startup RYLTY is helping music rights holders collect, clean, merge and analyze royalty data so they can best optimize their time, resources and ROI.

/PRNewswire/ -- Leftbrain, a business management and tech startup, launched the Royalty Recovery Program™ today to help musicians recover black box royalties....

PhD student Nicholas Judd and Torkel Klingberg, professor of cognitive neuroscience, wanted to figure out how spatial cognitive training affects mathematical learning, whether it is more effective to train mental rotation or visuospatial working memory, and whether there are differences between individuals that mean there is a cognitive training method more suited to them. In the study, children spent half their time studying maths, and the other half undertook various types of cognitive traini...

Credit: Sara Mackey Young children who practice visual working memory and reasoning tasks improve their math skills more than children who focus on spatial rotation exercises, according to a large study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. The findings support the notion that training spatial cognition can enhance academic performance and that when it comes to math, the type of training matters. The study is published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour. "In this large, randomi...

Leftbrain appoints music industry and tech veterans to advisory board News provided by Share this article Share this article LOS ANGELES, April 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Leftbrain, the leading fintech company in business management, today announced the appointment of Jenna Adler, Lindsay Unwin, and Michael Fineberg to its newly formed advisory board. The board brings decades of collective experience in the music and tech industries and will be instrumental in helping Leftbrain scale its technolog...

Billboard’s 2021 Top Business Managers Billboard 2/22/2021 Billboard Staff The music industry’s leading business managers serve as financial advisers, tax accountants and fiscal therapists for artists and executives alike — and they have long preached the importance of saving for a rainy day. But what if the storm lasts for a year? In 2020, as revenue from live touring halted, traditional recording sessions ceased and marketing meetings moved to Zoom, the roles of busine...