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Black Culture Builds the Crowd. The Bigger Money May Be in Who Controls Access to It

Live Nation Urban is expanding beyond live events into audience data, sponsorship, creators and IP. Live Nation’s financials reveal why…

1 week ago

Harrison Barnes Is Turning $25 Million of NBA Earnings Into Bank Ownership

The San Antonio Spurs veteran put $25 million of his own money into an Iowa community bank. The bigger story…

2 weeks ago

Roblox Built a Creator Economy. Steal an Egg Shows Who Sets the Rules

Five years after Roblox was celebrated for letting young developers turn games into businesses, its hottest viral controversy reveals the…

2 weeks ago

Bill Gates Says AI Could Replace Workers Across the Economy. The Bigger Question Is Who Gets the Money.

Bill Gates is warning that artificial intelligence could permanently reduce the need for human labor. The deeper economic question is…

2 weeks ago

MTN Wants to Control Credit. Gulf Capital Is Helping Build Its AI Infrastructure.

Africa’s largest telecom operator is exploring banking licences while building AI-ready data centres with a UAE-backed investor. Together, the moves…

2 weeks ago

Nigeria Attracted $10.37 Billion in Foreign Capital. Only 1.3% Was FDI.

Foreign money is returning to Nigerian markets, but 95% of Q1 inflows went into portfolio investments. The gap between financial…

3 weeks ago

BlackSun Raised $1 Billion for Sports and Media. Now Comes the Real Ownership Test

A Black-led private-equity firm is targeting some of culture’s most valuable assets. The bigger economic question is who supplies the…

3 weeks ago

Breaking Made the Olympics. The Culture Didn’t Control the Upside.

Breaking’s Olympic debut brought sponsors, bigger prize pools and global attention. Two years later, veteran breakers say much of that…

3 weeks ago

The U.S. Is Outsourcing Deportations to Liberia. Who Pays for the Burden?

Liberia will accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from the U.S. The unanswered economic question is who pays the administrative…

3 weeks ago

Megan Thee Stallion Kept Her Masters. Interscope Gets Distribution.

Megan Thee Stallion’s new partnership with Interscope separates two pieces of the music business that are often bundled together: ownership…

4 weeks ago

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