The Hoxton, Oslo will see the first international lifestyle brand enter the Norwegian hospitality landscape
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The Hoxton, Oslo will see the first international lifestyle brand enter the Norwegian hospitality landscape

Lifestyle Ennismorethe fastest-growing lifestyle and leisure hospitality company, together with AB Invest and Møller Eiendomis proud to announce the signing of The Hoxton, Oslo—the brand's first hotel in the Nordic region. Set to open in 2027, the milestone signing also marks Ennismore's first property in Norway and the first international lifestyle brand to enter the Norwegian hospitality scene.The Hoxton, Oslo will bring the brand's signature layered aesthetic to the Norwegian capital, courtesy of Ennismore's in-house interior design studio AIME Studios. Like a good neighbour with an open house, guests will be greeted with a homely, open-planned lobby space upon entering the hotel, perfect for lounging with friends, working through the day, or grabbing a bite to eat. Always inspired by the diversity and originality of the streets and scenes that surround its hotels, The Hoxton,...
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First Mover Americas: BTC Steadies, but 10% Monthly Loss Questions Nasdaq Rally
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First Mover Americas: BTC Steadies, but 10% Monthly Loss Questions Nasdaq Rally

Top Stories Tamfitronics This article originally appeared in First MoverCoinDesk’s daily newsletter, putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day.Top Stories Tamfitronics Latest PricesLatest crypto prices. (CoinDesk) (CoinDesk)Top Stories Tamfitronics Top StoriesThe crypto market regained some poise early Tuesday as analysts said supply overhang concerns stemming from defunct exchange Mt. Gox's planned distribution of 140,000 BTC are overdone. Bitcoin traded above $61,000, having hit a low of $58,580 on Monday. The broader market gauge of the CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20) bounced to 2,083 points from 2,020. Still, BTC, a liquidity proxy for macro traders, is down almost 10% for the month, starkly contrasting with a 5% gain in Wall Street's tech-heavy index, Nasdaq. The differing trajectories might foreshadow a tightening of liquidity conditions in...
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America’s first Black astronaut candidate finally flew. Now it’s time to make more
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America’s first Black astronaut candidate finally flew. Now it’s time to make more

Top Stories Tamfitronics Ed Dwight thought he would be an astronaut six decades ago, back when President John F. Kennedy’s administration, in its push for the moon, realized that the impact of America reaching our closest celestial neighbor would be magnified greatly if the crew included a person of color.“Why don’t we put the first non-white man in space?” Edward Murrow, Kennedy’s director of the U.S. Information Agency, wrote to NASA administrator James Webb in 1961, just five months after the Soviet Union put a person, Yuri Gagarin, into space for the first time ever. “If your boys were to enroll and train a qualified Negro and then fly him in whatever vehicle is available, we could retell our whole space effort to the whole non-white world, which is most of it.”The climb was steep....
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Spotify’s First Post-Bundled Royalty Statements Have Arrived — 97% of All Subscription Accounts Are Now Lower-Paying Bundles
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Spotify’s First Post-Bundled Royalty Statements Have Arrived — 97% of All Subscription Accounts Are Now Lower-Paying Bundles

Top Stories Tamfitronics Spotify’s bundles-of-joy are now wreaking havoc on royalty statements (Photo: Katrin Bolovtsova)Top Stories Tamfitronics Spotify’s hard shift toward bundling and its associated loopholes have officially started hitting publisher royalty statements, according to documents shared with Digital Music News this week. So far, it looks like Spotify has taken an extreme turn toward cut-rate bundling recategorizations—here’s a look at the preliminary statements.Last week, Digital Music News calculated that Spotify accounts for an impressive 42% of all mechanical royalties paid in the U.S., based on a tranche of confidential royalty statements from February of 2024. Now, it looks like that percentage is going to drop significantly, thanks to an extreme shift towards bundling that is now impacting music publisher bank accounts.And make no mistake—this is now impacting music publisher wallets in...
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