The longer someone has been listening to podcasts, the more they consume, with 15% of America now listening to six hours or more a week to podcasts. New research from Cumulus Media and Signal Hill Insights finds 44% of weekly podcast listeners are considered heavy users, with the average weekly podcast listener now committing 7.3 […]
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Editor’s Note: This story is an excerpt from WBUR’s weekly arts and culture newsletter, The ARTery. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. A new arts facility is coming to Boston in 2027. Castle of Our Skins, an arts institution that celebrates and aims to generate curiosity
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Former NBA Lakers star Metta Sandiford-Artest (formerly known as Metta World Peace), has teamed up with Stephen Stokols, the former CEO of Boost Mobile, to launch Tru Skye Ventures, a firm looking to invest in sports and health tech, according to Sportico. The firm wants to raise $100 million and cut its first formal check
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Opera innovator Yuval Sharon will step down from his role of artistic director at the Industry, the company he founded a decade ago. (Erin Baiano / For The Times) In what could be considered the end of an era, the Industry on Thursday announced that Yuval Sharon will step down as artistic director of the
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The Bayreuth Festival dropped four productions from its 150th anniversary season in 2026 because of budget cuts, the festival said Thursday. The German festival devoted to composer Richard Wagner attributed the decision to its employees’ public-service sector labor contracts and an inability to increase revenue. The festival said it is 55% self-financed. Bayreuth, built to
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“San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker season will kick off as planned, despite concerns that opening night would be canceled due to a stall in contract negotiations. Ballet management … reached a tentative two-year agreement with its union members on Thursday.” – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN) Source link
“Tortoise agreed to invest £25 million ($31.9 million) in the British title over the next five years and has pledged to keep publishing the print edition of the approximately 230-year-old paper. Under the terms of the deal, the Scott Trust will become a key shareholder in Tortoise Media.” – Bloomberg (MSN) Source link
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Back in the heady days of 2021, Heartcore Capital planned to focus on consumer technology with a $200 million fund. Fast-forward to 2024, and its latest fund will now ‘leaven the bread’ of that thesis, with a fresh $180 million (€170M) to go broader and more generalist than that earlier thesis. Some 17-years into the
Ride-hail giant Uber and Chinese autonomous vehicle technology company WeRide have launched a commercial robotaxi service in Abu Dhabi. The launch marks Uber’s first international autonomous vehicle offering. Uber has been snatching up partnerships with autonomous vehicle companies across sectors, including ride-hail, delivery, and trucking. Other partners include Wayve, Serve Robotics, Aurora Innovation, Waabi, and
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Fly Ventures, the Berlin-based VC that invests in seed-stage European startups within enterprise and deep tech, has launched its third fund at €80 million. The firm raised its last €53 million fund in 2020. Aiming at technical founders, the firm claims Fund III was oversubscribed and raised in a single closing. Meanwhile, the small increase
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