Jimmy Iovine News
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Music producers Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine will donate $70 million to the University of Southern California to establish a center for arts and technology.
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Beats Electronics LLC, maker of the popular headphones, received a $60 million investment led by billionaire Len Blavatnik and will use the money to invest in its planned Daisy music streaming service.
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Beats Electronics LLC, the audio brand founded by Dr. Dre and Geffen A&M Chairman Jimmy Iovine, announced a new music service called Daisy and named Topspin Media’s Ian Rogers to lead it.
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HTC Corp. Chief Executive Officer Peter Chou got the call when Sprint Nextel Corp. wanted to develop the first smartphone for a higher-speed wireless network last year.
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Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile carrier, plans to start selling an HTC Corp. smartphone with audio capabilities developed by the headphone maker backed by rapper Dr. Dre.
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Scotty McCreery, the 17-year-old country singer from North Carolina, was voted the 10th season winner of “American Idol,” the most-watched U.S. television show.
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Universal Music Group hired Gee Roberson, manager of rap artists including Kanye West and Nicki Minaj, to restart the company’s Geffen Records.
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Steve Jobs’s death leaves Hollywood without the trusted technology envoy who helped push the film, TV and music industries into the digital age.
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News Corp. ’s Fox will announce next week that recording artists Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler are joining “American Idol” as judges, according to two people with knowledge of the plans.
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It was 20 years ago today, plus about 25 years, that the Beatles recorded one of the most acclaimed albums in music history, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” and they did it on Harman recording gear.
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