Soundcloud co-founder Eric Wahlforss switches job as firm hires CTO

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Kobalt inks deal with Emeli Sandé’s Hard Copy Publishing

Sandé helms the London-based firm alongside artist manager and producer Lamar Jackson as MD

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Deezer’s Chief International Officer exits for newspaper publisher

Gerrit Schumann joined Deezer in 2013 as VP of Europe and was promoted in 2015

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Miles Beard and Jeff Vaughn step up to VP of A&R at Atlantic’s APG

The duo have worked with artists including Charlie Puth, Kevin Gates and Young Thug

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Sacem teams with IBM to build ‘transparent’ online royalty system

URights will be open-source so other CMO’s worldwide can integrate their catalogues

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Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd generated £198m in revenue over last financial year

Post-tax profit tops £14m but falls year-on-year

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Vivendi unveils four new venues in Africa – with links to UMG

The theatres are part of the CanalOlympic network that first arrived in the Cameroon capital Yaounde last year

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