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Jack Dorsey s Square to Acquire Jay-Z s Tidal Streaming Service for $297 Million
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Square, the payments-processing company led by CEO Jack Dorsey, announced plans to buy a “significant” majority stake in Tidal, the music and entertainment streaming platform run by Jay-Z.
Square said it expects to pay a $297 million, in a combination of cash and stock, for the Tidal stake, with existing artist shareholders the remaining stakeholders. Tidal will operate independently within Square. Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter is expected to join Square’s board, subject to the closing of the transaction.
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Why is Square buying Tidal? The company sees an opportunity in enabling direct-to-fan business models. According to Square, the deal will extend its “purpose of economic empowerment” to musicians a new category for the payments company. Square plans to bring new systems and tools to help artists find new ways to support thei
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At a time when the economy remains in tatters, the coronavirus continues to kill, and Texas is colder than Stephen Miller’s heart, does Joe Biden
really need to worry about what we call those who are in this country illegally?
Oh yeah.
So say
adiós to any official mention of “assimilation,” and
hola to “civic integration.” Time to replace “alien” with “noncitizen.” And “illegal alien,” the harsh-sounding couplet that conjures up images of intergalactic invasions? Biden’s team wants his people to instead go with “undocumented noncitizen” or “undocumented individual.”
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The move has triggered expected responses from the Left and Right the former applauds the move as a humanistic touch after four years of Trumpian ugliness, while the latter cries PC Reconquista. It’s a test balloon for the rancor to come as President Biden tries to push through the first immigration amnesty in 35 years. A dust-up over language will seem l
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But it was the same dog whistle that the Trump administration learned to blow so well, said Otto Santa Ana. He’s a recently retired UCLA professor whose influential 2002 book “Brown Tide Rising: Metaphors of Latinos in Contemporary American Public Discourse” tracked the rise of inflammatory language like “illegal alien” and other such slurs. Using it “became a very easy argument of double attack,” said Santa Ana. “‘Illegal’ forecloses any other consideration of the status of the individual. ‘Alien’ is an ancient term from English common law. Together, the words don’t allow any subtlety.”