News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Square acquires majority of Tidal in $297M deal by bogomipz on Thursday March 04, 2021 @09:05AM (#26342558)
Pure speculation, but I think there might be a play for Square to get into the concert merchandise business. The merch booth at shows always has vinyl and CDs for sale. Most people no longer have the latter and vinyl is a much smaller market compared to streaming.

I think a merchandise vendor who could provide exclusive releases to attendees in addition to handling payment processing might be very attractive to artists.

Re:Square acquires majority of Tidal in $297M deal by skc on Thursday March 04, 2021 @09:42AM (#26343022)
And Jay-Z happens to be the founder of RocNation, a quietly successful artist/athlete management concern.

A lot of dots can connect here.