UPDATE: How much will the Joe Rogan scandal hurt Spotify? - a podcast by BBC World Service

We start this WBR looking at the effects of the Joe Rogan Scandal on Spotify and if they should be worried. When Rogan started talking to people about Coronavirus he was accused of spreading misinformation, and artists including Neil Young, and Joni Mitchell threatened to remove their music from Spotify. Spotify has promised to post advisory warnings, Joe Rogan has apologised but the damage has been done. We spoke to Our North American Tech Correspondant James Clayton about the practical implications of this scandal and how worried Spotify should actually be.

Next. Peter Jankovsis talked guided us through the US markets and we finished with Sony's deal to buy Bungie for $3.6 billion. It's in light of the last year seeing over a thousand private placements, mergers, and acquisitions in the games industry. To mention two of the biggest; Take-Two Interactive bought Zynga for $12.7 billion and Microsoft spent a massive 69 billion dollars buying Activision. There have recently been many other such deals, so what is the significance of Bungie, a question we put to our New York Business Correspondent Samira Hussein.

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